The Soulless Socialite

In case anyone hasn't heard, a new dream was discovered... about a week ago? Two weeks? Relatively recently. It requires 3 levels of stone hearted, under 5 nightmares, and the impaled upon the peak quality. It's called A Dream of Sisyphean Effort, and as the name implies it's a massive action sink. But it also gives us the first narration from Stone's point of view ever

And it's so good!!

She is tired. She is in pain. She is slow, and so much happens in the spaces between her breaths. But she has goals. She has agency. She is ever struggling against her limitations, ever growing, ever reaching towards the sky. There is hope in her yet! She will make her dreams reality, she will crack open the shell of her body and emerge, winged and beautiful, because she will will it to be so. She loves, she gives what she was never given, and she takes in return. There is all the arrogance of a star in her, but also a very relatable desire... to be loved, by the parent who shunned her. To prove herself. To escape

As a creature of parabola, Ockham’s definition of personhood isn’t as straightforward. A person can act on the world around them, when you press, a person presses back. The surface Ockham may breathe and move, but that has more to do with the fingerkings that puppet his body than any intrinsic life of his own. In Jones, Ockham sees someone who when disarmed flinches or shrinks back, and heshethey doesn’t take well to that sort of spinelessness.

Les Modes : revue mensuelle illustrée des arts décoratifs appliqués à la femme, no. 4, avril 1901, Paris. Mlle Marcelle Lender. Cliché Reutlinger. Bibliothèque nationale de France

𝓐 𝓠𝓾𝓲𝓮𝓽 𝓓𝓮𝓿𝓲𝓵𝓮𝓼𝓼 🐝✨️

An admiral pirate Immovable Object and a diplomat spy Unstoppable Force walk into a bar. They're holding hands.

Hiram x Morgan moodboard for @the-silvered-pirate <3 (bonus and credits under the cut)