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Because, like. As we all know, decay exists as an extant form of life. That matters, if your magic is powered by death. More importantly, though:

“Call it a communal soul,” said her Emperor. “What’s a human being, other than a sack of microbial life?”

And:

“Flesh magicians are exposed to this idea of a system earlier than in your school.”

So it's intriguing, isn't it, that incinerators are so present, isn't it.

Not everywhere: it seems like the Ninth doesn't immediately deflesh their skeletons. Wake only got "boiled and sent out" when Gideon was eight. (and isn't it creepy to put it like that. Stuck in that hole, where they left her...) There's a lot of references to mummification, which are of course also ways to stop decay from happening.

The Seventh House is famous for that, too: soul-stoppers and mummifiers. And while John never officially declared it a sin, it is fully against the law. What if it isn't just about avoiding fraud? What if it's about the risk of keeping a body around for long enough that it creates a new communal soul?

That's Anastasia’s tripod principle: The body needs thalergy and a soul to keep the lights on. When the body doesn't fail naturally, the soul flees the body, but it wants to return (revenants). If the soul is removed from a functional body, Pyrrha calls it a "weird vegetable" that'll give out eventually, but the Eighth does that to siphon - and of course a lyctoral body with its healing powers would be dispatched by Mercymorn immediately.

This is all vague speculation, and could mean nothing. Might mean nothing in regards to human bodies.

But in regards to planets?

What happens to a body, if it died - went through apopneumatic shock - but people kept living on it? Yes, the houses are dying. Yes, the houses are small. Maybe that's what's keeping it all in check.

But shepherd planets?

Because, like. As we all know, decay exists as an extant form of life. That matters, if your magic is powered by death. More importantly, though:

“Call it a communal soul,” said her Emperor. “What’s a human being, other than a sack of microbial life?”

And:

“Flesh magicians are exposed to this idea of a system earlier than in your school.”

So it's intriguing, isn't it, that incinerators are so present, isn't it.

Not everywhere: it seems like the Ninth doesn't immediately deflesh their skeletons. Wake only got "boiled and sent out" when Gideon was eight. (and isn't it creepy to put it like that. Stuck in that hole, where they left her...) There's a lot of references to mummification, which are of course also ways to stop decay from happening.

The Seventh House is famous for that, too: soul-stoppers and mummifiers. And while John never officially declared it a sin, it is fully against the law. What if it isn't just about avoiding fraud? What if it's about the risk of keeping a body around for long enough that it creates a new communal soul?

That's Anastasia’s tripod principle: The body needs thalergy and a soul to keep the lights on. When the body doesn't fail naturally, the soul flees the body, but it wants to return (revenants). If the soul is removed from a functional body, Pyrrha calls it a "weird vegetable" that'll give out eventually, but the Eighth does that to siphon - and of course a lyctoral body with its healing powers would be dispatched by Mercymorn immediately.

This is all vague speculation, and could mean nothing. Might mean nothing in regards to human bodies.

But in regards to planets?

What happens to a body, if it died - went through apopneumatic shock - but people kept living on it? Yes, the houses are dying. Yes, the houses are small. Maybe that's what's keeping it all in check.

But shepherd planets?

i frequently miss previous food service jobs, not because i don't enjoy what i do now, but because i did genuinely enjoy those jobs too. the reason i left is because the expectation was that i either sell 40+ hours of my week to the job, regularly be physically injured with no support, either no or abysmal workers comp, inconsistent scheduling so it meant i had little to no life outside of work... and still, the actual labor of the job, i enjoyed. i enjoyed the people. i liked working with my hands and making people happy.

and you know, people often bring up customers as the reason to leave food service - this was part of my reason as well, but how much of that - like the unsustainability of working food service itself, bodily and monetarily - is manufactured? many of the people who were terrible to me working food service were often people working office jobs only marginally 'above' mine in pay and support, miserable with their own work, looking to exert some level of power they could over someone else.

Another design is using 2 20x25x1 filters, taping them to the sides of the box fan and then to each other so they sort of make a triangle, then cutting cardboard to make a top and bottom to the triangle.

This was discovered as a more effective design during the 2020 US west coast fires.

https://tombuildsstuff.blogspot.com/2013/06/better-box-fan-air-purifier.html

someone on reddit explained 😭