I needed an outlet for my "I can be a web designer, really!" feelings. And since nobody reads this anyway...
But the point is, a bit more effort with Google revealed definitively that Wikipedia was, to use a technical term, "full of shit" on the matter of nomenclature. Pretty much everything else agrees with what I've changed the names in question to, (or maybe not. I kind of hate the internet now. But the changes stand until I get a citation.) (As near as I can tell, all of the convenient-to-find information is from two conflicting edits of Wikipedia. Damnit, internet, don't make me kill again.) so the only thing that remains is to procrastinate about rewriting the posts that are already here.
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Monday, October 13, 2008
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Research-ish ramblings
So, I decided to read up a bit more on what's actually known about... things vaguely like what I, and, I assume, other people, have.
There are various conditions associated with acting "vampire-ish", like porphyria and rabies. Hopefully, I don't have those.
Since I'm using Wikipedia to do research (less scary than Google. "Related searches: real vampires how to become a vampire"), this is all kind of sketchy. I'm currently using the term "vampirism" because that's what the pica article says it's called. The condition called vampirism with an actual article is "Clinical Vampirism", which is something else entirely (in the sense that it's a sexual fetish. I'm not enough of a masochist to enjoy the feeling of the hunger pangs I get.). If I find a better term, I'll change what needs to be changed, since I like being right, but...
It just really bothers me that I have to refer to the Hematophagy and Pica articles, because the link within the Pica article redirects to Vampire, which is just... Vampires in general.
The Hematophagy article, by the way, currently (revision as of 23:27, 21 September 2008) states that drinking small amounts of one's own blood isn't taboo "[citation needed]". That's where this started, as I said before, but it ended up in... a slightly different place.
It's a big world... surely somebody else knows the pain of this hunger.
(Also, I slept in till noon, so I'm not exactly doing myself a favor in the eating department.)
There are various conditions associated with acting "vampire-ish", like porphyria and rabies. Hopefully, I don't have those.
Since I'm using Wikipedia to do research (less scary than Google. "Related searches: real vampires how to become a vampire"), this is all kind of sketchy. I'm currently using the term "vampirism" because that's what the pica article says it's called. The condition called vampirism with an actual article is "Clinical Vampirism", which is something else entirely (in the sense that it's a sexual fetish. I'm not enough of a masochist to enjoy the feeling of the hunger pangs I get.). If I find a better term, I'll change what needs to be changed, since I like being right, but...
It just really bothers me that I have to refer to the Hematophagy and Pica articles, because the link within the Pica article redirects to Vampire, which is just... Vampires in general.
The Hematophagy article, by the way, currently (revision as of 23:27, 21 September 2008) states that drinking small amounts of one's own blood isn't taboo "[citation needed]". That's where this started, as I said before, but it ended up in... a slightly different place.
It's a big world... surely somebody else knows the pain of this hunger.
(Also, I slept in till noon, so I'm not exactly doing myself a favor in the eating department.)
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