Writing a letter is convoluted?

Also yes it does suck how hard it is to get GAC in many places, I sympathize

I have actually seen one on YouTube, but I think it was a reupload of her video from TikTok and I don’t remember her name.

You are absolutely correct, this is genius

I realize I wasn’t clear with my wording here–a single “strain” of Nameless is an individual infecting one or more hosts, and can communicate similarly to a hive mind, but is isolated to its own strain. If a strain infects an actual hive mind, then the Nameless strain and the hivemind can actually communicate with each other via abstract processing.

That, and to clarify another comment, infected infants die, not the strain trying to infect them.

As I mentioned, in this fictional version of Earth, they’re fungal. Their form is a spongey mycelium-like structure that is nearly indistinguishable from human nervous systems. Most doctors would never consider them something wrong, as they see this in nearly everyone, and it’s listed as a “normal variation in anatomy” in all textbooks.

In the world I’m building, humans would not have existed without the Nameless, and are quite literally domestic livestock who don’t even know they’re being fed on. The reason (in this fiction) that animals are more closely related to fungi than plants is literally because they were engineered to be compatible by final-stage hosts of another planet, that were destroyed after use.

They can’t live without a host, as they feast on the information that the host learns. In later stages, the host will “autopilot” quite a bit, responding as if they heard what they were told without actually processing anything. This is because their nervous system was literally hijacked.

Hungrier Nameless will often consume information as soon as the host learns it, causing problematic memory loss.

Infection usually has to wait until the brain is somewhat close to done with development, as early infection may result in the brain not being suitable to learning enough to feed the Nameless strain they are hosting. Desperate nameless strains will sometimes try to infect infants, but they die when this happens.

That second point is meant to parallel “gifted kid syndrome,” where a student does very very well until their mid/late teens, then suddenly hits a metaphorical brick wall when they get to college.

Hypersensitivity to sensory stimuli, especially sensitivity to temperature and pressure changes.

Note that in this fictional world I’m building, they do also take intelligent young folk as hosts.

Awesome!!! I was already working on writing a few video essays with heavy animation elements.

I have a side channel prepped for it and everything, I just need to get the ball rolling. I want to prepare sufficiently and actually have a few months worth of daily shorts ready before uploading the first video essay, though.

To save time on animation, I was going to build the background environments in Minecraft and then port them into Blender, where I’d use grease pencil to draw in the characters and import external sources (such as data, quotes, and charts) to back my claims.

So for example, when I start a section related to education, the animation would take place in a public school or university.

I was hoping to come to hexbear for peer review and critique from other LGBTQ+ people during the writing process for my video essay, “A Calm Explanation of Transgender People.” I want to make sure that what I write accurately represents our community, and is educational without being inflammatory to the target audience for that video–people who genuinely don’t understand the trans community but are willing to learn if the person explaining is patient enough to answer questions.

Basically, the kind of video that would have done me a lot of good back when I was an egg who didn’t know I was autistic.

If that does well, then ideally, I’ll have enough traction to get a nonprofit legal group going, to protect Americans relying on the Health Insurance industry for healthcare.

I wasn’t trying to be tough, I was trying to be respectful

Despite being a genetics and genomics major when I was in college, I found animation to be a fun hobby. I intend to get my roots in the internet as a content creator, getting my views in the open, and working from there.

It will absolutely be a long and tedious process, but I’m stubborn and persistent.

I… entirely skipped one of your quotes. I was referring to immune resistance.

It 100% starts from within. It only takes a single strain with a vendetta against its own species to steer its host to reveal their existence. It’s the reason affected planets are kept in a constant state of near-annihilation and disallowed from discovering intergalactic communication or travel–if even a single strain decides to reveal the existence of the species as a whole, the planet (and the strain born there) is annihilated, like amputating an infected wound.

The primary species on an affected planet will eventually discover weapons of mass destruction, and is usually the primary indication that The Nameless have taken hold.

However, total annihilation is a last resort, and is only taken if the individual strain’s host(s) can’t be located and destroyed.

While The Nameless can technically choose a hive-mind as a host, they explicitly avoid doing so, as it makes strain destruction less feasible and detection more likely. However, rebellious strains intentionally seek out hive-minds. This is why most affected planets don’t have any–they’re either exterminated before technology can develop, or never evolved to begin with. The Nameless choose host planets carefully.

Funny thing about dulling an entire species research of neurology and psychology, though, is that the species themselves can’t detect when they’ve branched into a hive-mind variant, and it’s very difficult for The Nameless to pick them out when the hive mind variants are so worried about prosecution that they, too, hide their existence.

I’m not a lawyer, but I am a UC Davis alumni. I’ll see what I can do.

Thank you so much for commenting this!!! I wasn’t able to find the original by searching it and I didn’t want to scroll through at least 8 months worth of skeets to find it because I’m lazy

It is a single-step plan.

You write them to request a list of documents that they are legally required to provide if requested, the list of documents is numbered in that screenshot.

Either they provide that information, which you can use to dispute the denial, or they repeal the denial and pay your bill.

If you struggle to this degree with reading, I recommend downloading a screen-reader. If you already use one, my apologies for not initially providing a text transcript of the screenshot.

I mean, I’m American, and I read all that.

Granted, I am acutely aware of our education crisis, and put extra effort into learning literacy to compensate for the times I become non-verbal, but anyone who values this information would gladly read it. You don’t have to if you just don’t want to, but it’s your own loss if you choose not to read it.

It makes me tempted to start a coalition of volunteer lawyers who specialize in this. Straight out of law school, funded by a combination of donations and side jobs in law. These volunteer lawyers would have a group social media channel (probably on YouTube and other similar sites) explaining what they do and why. We’d probably also need a tip-line for submitting claims against these health insurance agencies.

Why use a gun when you can use a microwave oven?

No, just deny their claim for testicular cancer treatment coverage.