Picture this, you’re a parasite that can inhabit any warm blooded animal but can only reproduce when you’re inhabiting a cat. You start scrambling the brains of mice and rats to make them more likely to run into and provide tasty transport to your feline fuck pads, but that only gets you so far. What’s the best way to bump up your gondii count to insane numbers? Do your little noodle-nobbling act on a species of ape with a big ol’ brain box, giving them the curiosity to think outside of it, leading to the development of the world altering technology that is agriculture. Now those sowing simians and the one animal you need to propagate live in close quarters, infecting each other with you back and forth. Hell, give it enough time and your shaggy shag wagons start to evolve specifically to manipulate those bipedal bonebags into actively taking care of them and even sleeping in the same damn bed! The monkeys get even smarter and don’t need pussy powered pest control anymore? No problem, the population of your kitty cum camps and their custodians has exploded. There’s no chance the relationship between both species is ever going to end at this stage as its an embedded part of human culture. Congratulations, you’ve guaranteed the existence of your kind forever. Or until the whole climate change thing you sort of unknowingly enabled wipes everything out. But hey, not a bad run for an unthinking alveolate.
There’s like a literal ton of studies on Wikipedia showing how it affects mammals, and then a third of a ton saying “nuh-uh, we’re like, people, so, like, we’re way too smart to ever be affected like anything like that”.
I’m pretty sure the parasite is responsible for half of those scientists nay-saying this shit.
Actually now that I think of it makes me think of this show I just binged. A solid 8/10. Four season, storylines finish. A great B+ substitute for “The Last of Us”, I’d say. The Strain - IMDB
T to the P to the motherfuckin’ G
Toxo-plasma-gon-dii!
Picture this, you’re a parasite that can inhabit any warm blooded animal but can only reproduce when you’re inhabiting a cat. You start scrambling the brains of mice and rats to make them more likely to run into and provide tasty transport to your feline fuck pads, but that only gets you so far. What’s the best way to bump up your gondii count to insane numbers? Do your little noodle-nobbling act on a species of ape with a big ol’ brain box, giving them the curiosity to think outside of it, leading to the development of the world altering technology that is agriculture. Now those sowing simians and the one animal you need to propagate live in close quarters, infecting each other with you back and forth. Hell, give it enough time and your shaggy shag wagons start to evolve specifically to manipulate those bipedal bonebags into actively taking care of them and even sleeping in the same damn bed! The monkeys get even smarter and don’t need pussy powered pest control anymore? No problem, the population of your kitty cum camps and their custodians has exploded. There’s no chance the relationship between both species is ever going to end at this stage as its an embedded part of human culture. Congratulations, you’ve guaranteed the existence of your kind forever. Or until the whole climate change thing you sort of unknowingly enabled wipes everything out. But hey, not a bad run for an unthinking alveolate.
There’s like a literal ton of studies on Wikipedia showing how it affects mammals, and then a third of a ton saying “nuh-uh, we’re like, people, so, like, we’re way too smart to ever be affected like anything like that”.
I’m pretty sure the parasite is responsible for half of those scientists nay-saying this shit.
Actually now that I think of it makes me think of this show I just binged. A solid 8/10. Four season, storylines finish. A great B+ substitute for “The Last of Us”, I’d say. The Strain - IMDB
I’d also recommend: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upstream_Color