https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teeth_blackening
* Species: Cat
* Age: 9 months old
* Sex/Neuter status: Female, spayed
* Breed: domestic short-hair/ shirazi
* Body weight: 2.8 kg
* History: healthy
* Clinical signs: nothing is wrong, sleeps and eats and plays well
* Your general location: Saudi Arabia
I'm sort of freaking out, just noticed this on my 9 months old cat, not sure if these are baby teeth or not, i thought they all feel already, but what is this blackness? how could it develop so fast if it's not baby teeth, i'm going to the vet tomorrow but i would like someones help in figuring what this is now, have anyone seen this discoloration before?
I don't trust the vets in my part of the world too much, so i try to gather as much information as i can
Thankful to any insight
I was able to find this article:
> Being used to Western beauty standards, many a visitor was shocked to see women with black teeth walking around. Some thought that the Japanese people had terribly bad mouth hygiene, mistaking the dye for actual tooth rot, while others, having realized that the blackening was done on purpose, wondered why Japanese women would "disfigure" themselves with ohaguro. A theory, stemming from that very time of the first cultural exchange, claims that ohaguro was done to prevent the woman from cheating her husband, and the black teeth were indeed used to make her less attractive. Modern Japanese social scientists dismiss this theory, though, stating that Japanese girls and women enjoyed a lot of liberty in their lives and stress the original tradition of ohaguro: to show someone's maturity.
but there are no sources - I'd be particularly interested in a written account if one exists. For example, do we know what William Adams thought about it (presumably his Japanese wife would have done so)? Thanks!
So I've notice that my bottom row of teeth have been forming dark stains. It's forming in between teeth and on the near the gums. I brush 2-3 times a day, with mouthwash, but this staining still occurs. I use Colgate Total Whitening toothpaste and Crest Total Health mouthwash. Any ideas on how to fix, reduce, and prevent this?
I only read one chapter of this short novel and I could barely gat past it. The dialogue is absolutely abysmal. This isn't a review, like I said, I haven't finished it. I'm just wondering if it's worth continuing.
To be fair, it's using the classic of trope of dumb teenagers, or in this case newly weds, who go into a haunted mansion. As well as the narration being pretty good, so the writing itself is not bad at all, and I feel like she knows how to deliver good dialogue. But from what I've read.....woof.
Mabey it's been too long since I had friends and I no longer know how people talk these days. I guess that could be it.
But like I asked before, is it worth striding through, or at least does the dialogue get better, or stop at all?
This is a brand new book. It was released in October 2021 so it's barely a month old. Picked it up last night at Barnes & Nobles while perusing the horror section. I found it nestled between some Stephen King books. Cover looked super cool. There were some amazing reviews from some high profile and talented authors (T. Kingfisher, Stephen Graham Jones, Paul Tremblay, etc.). It was a short 124 page novella. It was a massive disappointment. Spoilers follow.
Turns out, the writing was really good at points but really obscure at others. If you're very well versed in Japanese culture and the language associated with that, you'll be fine. But for folks like me who aren't, I had to Google words on almost every page.
Separate from culturally specific terms, the use of english vocabulary was strange. At points, it actually felt like the author was using large obscure words for the sole purpose of demonstrating the scale of her vocabulary despite not using the words correctly. There were times when this actually made sentences unreadable. More simplistic language would have made the story flow better and would have allowed for metaphors to make more sense. Khaw seemed to try to channel her inner Clive Barker but can't hold a candle to his prose.
The overarching drama suggests a haunted house, but the protagonist was an unreliable narrator who was drunk half the book. Her view on the haunting was more likely her own alcohol fueled delusions. Looking at the book from that perspective, it's the story of a group of fake friends murdering the only guy who's been good to all of them in a weird anti-white male human sacrifice.
Khaw is clearly trying to show the world how woke she is. Philip, the rich white guy, who considered everyone in the group to be his close friends, his "wolf pack," buys them all first class tickets to Japan, gets them access to an historic allegedly haunted mansion, and facilitates the marriage of two of the characters, one who's lifelong dream was to get married in a haunted house. The other characters constantly shit on his for being rich and white until they eventually disembowel him, torch his corpses, and lie to his mother about how he died at his funeral. Jesus Christ!
One of the reviews, by Stephen Graham Jones, claims this is "Hill House for this century." I completely disagree and question Jones' insight, ability, and status as a writer for making that comparison. The Haunting of Hill House delivered a deeply insightful adven
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Just finished this one in a single sitting tonight. Was really looking forward to this one, but overall felt it was pretty disappointing.
There was a couple great high points, really striking imagery. The Yokai and Japanese folklore parts are big draws for me.
The characters just didn’t feel real and I feel like the whole situation could’ve been fleshed out so much more.
Anybody have any alternative views? Or any good recommendations for similar books that are maybe more well done/complete?
Dear Lord, please let them kill me before the other ones do.
But what truly sent me reeling was the sharp pain that exploded in my mouth, followed by the warm, coppery blood splashing on my tongue.
The momentary flashes of lightning guide my path, followed by a hungered rolling thunder and a distant, “Tilt his head back and....1....2....3....”
EU material such as the KOTOR series would have your PC character get uglier the more Dark Side choices you made and canon material such as the movies had characters like Darth Maul have blackened teeth and yellow eyes (Anakin also had fiery-glowing eyes as well whenever he tapped into the Dark Side in ROTS). But then you have characters like Count Dooku or Kylo Ren who are relatively unscathed by the Dark Side in terms of their physical appearance.
So what is the "official" explanation for this now?
'Tis me again, and I bring you a rare excerpt post! Why rare? Well, the short story in question, A Flash of Silver Among the Corroded Ghosts, was only ever published as part of the Collector's Edition of the second Black Legion book, and it took me a while to hunt it down. It's interesting because it shows us the first contact of Grey Knights and the Black Legion, though neither have a clue about each other's existence up until that point. It's also interesting in that we get a psyker's first impression of the GKs.
>The ambush, when it came, began with a flash of silver among the corroded ghosts.
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>All these years later, to be the target of such a trap would insult me beyond measure. But this was only the fourth year of the First Black Crusade, and my enemies in the Ordo Hereticus did not yet know me. What was I to them but another Traitor Legion officer with powerful but undefined psychic abilities? Just another daemon-binder. Just another slave to the Pantheon.
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>They believed five warriors of their order would be sufficient.
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>They let fall the psychic barrier that had prevented me from seeing and sensing them. Their manifestation heralded two truths in the same moment: the first being that the distress call was of Imperial manufacture and doubtless had its genesis aboard their psychically cloaked vessel; and the second being that they were not individually powerful - their psychic might came from a gestalt aura created by their merging auras.
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>They surrounded me, the air still rank with the stinking bang of teleportation. Warp-lightning serpentined down the focus-vanes of their backpacks, each snake's final crackles dispersing angrily in hissing snaps. Their ceramite armour was silver. Their faces were hidden by their stylised knightly helms. They each carried weapons that bristled with psychic force.
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>How enthusiastic they were, these silver children. How eager, with the energy pent up in their weaponry, and the harmonic hum of their unified souls.
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>'Greetings,' I said to them. Nagual roared, baring his sabre-fangs. That was unnecessary, but there was something to be said for his loyalty.
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>'In the name of the Emperor upon His Golden Throne, we do judge thee diabolus traitoris.' This, from the coven's leader, a figure with rune-marked cream robes over his silver ceramite, carrying a crackling force staff. His next words were no surprise at all. 'The sentence is d
Nothing But Blackened Teeth was released a while ago. Has anyone read it yet? Impressions?
