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Things what I do:
Chiasmata (webcomic)
An ontological mystery about a group of people who find themselves trapped in an unknown Location, amnesiac and with mysterious powers.
Quiet and Antagonism - webnovel about falling into another world. Cosmic fantasy in flavour, I suppose. On hiatus, right now, and also on Royal Road if you want to read it there.
Here's a "story masterpost" full of tags that are nonexhaustive about what else I talk about, plus the above.
Check out my art tag!
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i started reading this book and kept tilting my head at the comparisons the author was using so i started a running list of them
this author's use of imagery is so questionable
i actually went "what the fuck" and had to stop for like 5 minutes after this one
so this might be the funniest text i've ever gotten about my partner
"The fire at the heart of Man is the fuel of immortality."
– Attributed (incorrectly) to Newton So this is a medieval attempt to fit the planets and their correspondences to the soul elements.
Mirror: Luna: Haecceity
Veil: Venus: Qualia
Anvil: Saturn: Esseity
Hammer: Mars: Puissance
Loom: Jupiter: Quiddity
Thread: Mercury: Provenance
The Great Work starts at Nigredo (blackening) at Lead, then up to Albedo, then Rubedo above (technically there's Citrinitas between white and red, hinted in the colour, but that was typically dropped in some later scholarship). What's happened here is a division of the Matter into lower (materia) "base reality" and presenting the development of the soul into a climb rather than a cycle. Get to the top, find gold, find the Form of the Good, the journey will be complete. The Work will be done. This was, of course, wrong. It isn't the Elan Vital that powers the soul, the touch or spark of the divine; the centre of the soul is a byproduct; smoke from a chimney, the gaseous form of the Noosphere.
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Three centuries ago, Dame Silvia Hargonneux—a veteran knight of King Halevander Ferron VII—retired from the battlefield but not from discipline. Joining House Reinauld, she transformed the domestic staff by applying knightly rigors to household service.
What began as simple housework evolved into a formidable discipline. The maids became more than servants; they were highly skilled custodians and martial guardians. It was said that neither assassin nor filth could survive under their watch. The order was formalized when Amelia Hargonneux converted the Reinauld Manor into the first official Academy. Their legend was cemented during the raids of the Tyrant Rogan, where the Maiden soldiers single-handedly preserved several noble bloodlines. Today, the Corps are both an eltie force and a status symbol. Securing even one Maiden marks a noble’s power; hosting multiple squads ensures a property is both immaculate and impenetrable.
Museum Encounter.
"The soul is a machine, an engine, and like many engines, it moves in cycles. Are we not all the smoky dreams of our mechanical souls?"
-Vanessa D. - Animancer The soul is made of segments, the soul is made of parts. The soul is made of organs. The soul is a cycle. Consider the thermodynamic Carnot heat engine, which creates work by moving energy between reservoirs of cool and heat.
Haecceity - "Thisness". The cosmic particle of Ding an sich - the thing itself.
This accretes into Esseity - raw concept-mass. Heft. How much concept does this have. "Green" is much more essential than "grue".
This is sorted into Quiddity - "Whatness". What distinguishes this type of thing.
This is coloured into Qualia - The properties of a thing, the subjectiveness of a subject. For a mortal, this is experiences, as well as why you're not the exact same as the archetype of what you are.
This quickens into Puissance - by dint of an object's power, what it can see done. How does it effect the world?
This is inscribed into Provenance - where has this been, and what has it done? The personal history of an object.
This anchors Haecceity - you can tell it's this thing in particular because it was this thing in the past. Continuity.
That's the main cycle, but what about the axes?
Haecceity and Qualia are the sides of the soul, the spirit, the unseen.
Esseity and Puissance are both the bodily aspects, the substance, what a thing is made of.
Provenance and Quiddity are both the mental aspects, the structure, the schema, how a thing's matter and thought are arranged.
The two triangles are the 'hot' and 'cold' aspects of the cycle, how energy travels back and forth, emitting Ipseity - The Work Extracted, the Self, the Identity. The triangles take the form of limitations. How are these things constraining the others?
Haecceity -> Quiddity: FORM: the bare this given an outline, a point pinned into a kind.
Quiddity -> Puissance: BLADE: the limitation of strength on the what, on the nature, the kind pares the power down to an edge.
Puissance -> Haecceity: FURNACE: power hot enough to melt down self, to truly change a thing, force to unmake identity.
This is the Form triangle, the heat, the cycle of a smith - shape the blank, sharpen the blade, melt it back down.
Esseity -> Qualia: QUENCH: Raw stuff cooling, crystallising, grain setting, fixing the texture.
Qualia -> Provenance: MATTER: the felt present lays down the record - only what has been experienced is what memory is made of.
Provenance -> Esseity: SILT: The past settles again into weight; what a thing was determines what it can yet be.
This is the Matter triangle, the cold, the settling of sediment and fossils.
In honor of April Fool's, Bulbapedia has released the funniest prank possible in the form of a Pokopia-based page on Humans
and my personal favorite
They have dex entries and level up moves this is amazing
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Perhaps my genuine biggest piece of socializing advice as someone who spent years of my life feeling wholly incapable of positively interacting with other people is to just ask the other person questions about themselves. Like that’s it. People love answering questions. They really love thoughtful follow-up questions. They love feeling like someone else is interested in them, their interests, their lives, their opinions. At some point in your questioning they will say something that reminds you of a funny / interesting story. Tell it. You will be remembered as the person who asks a lot of questions, makes people feel like they matter, and tells good stories. boom. done.
the end to this thread is killing me
My favorite trope is “janitor in headphones continues cleaning through extreme action”
I’ve been the janitor in headphones and trust me it’s an act we just don’t wanna be involved in the nonsense
The Curioste, for Realis
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Baudekin, the Highest Throne. Art for Realis!
you're not allowed to bring wireless devices into classified areas and a security guy noticed a square phone-ish shape in my pocket so he asked me to show him what it was and i had to show him my can of pocket herring :/
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