Prepare for Chaos

I love how completely dysfunctional Laplace is. It's split into a seemingly uncountable number of factions, one of which is both secret and incredibly well-known, there's nobody running the place except one extremely depressed man with too much paperwork, Lorentz Butterfly exists and is apparently fifteen different people at once, it's is so horrifically bureaucratic that nobody can get anything done and yet at the same time has no organisation, direction, or hierarchy whatsoever, it is constantly at political war with the organisation that claims it's separate from but is totally a part of, and all of the researchers are batshit insane.

the best way i can think to describe the experience of reading moby dick is you’re in line at the dmv and this guy behind you very loudly says “well who HASN’T had a gay experience” and then proceeds to tell you every detail about his life in between anecdotes about how great sperm is and how ropes work and sometimes he’ll say the most poetic shit you’ve ever heard in your life and them jump RIGHT back into explaining how a whale is a fish because 1) it swims in water and you’re still only like halfway through the dmv line