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The Osmium dynasty’s backstory reads like a particularly sardonic episode of the Golden Girls. Oryx writes an entire poem about how proud of his daughters he is.

Savathûn, the only sibling of the Primeval Three to hold a braincell, canonically says “humdinger”, and bounces her sinister schemes off of confused children she pulls from murder-class. Because she can. Imagine you’re 5 and you’re learning arts and class and the president calls you to the White House and tells you about her really sneaky plan to trick an entire other country and also commit tax fraud and pay off the national debt.

Xivu Arath is objectively a herbo jock, but figures out how to open portals and space time before either of her objectively genius-IQ sorceror siblings do bc she happened to go “haha sword goes swoosh swoosh” just right one day and open a spacebridge with her godly powers.

The siblings used to prank oneanother by just. Blowing up the other’s ENTIRE FUCKING ARMADA if one ever let their guard down and exposed their flank.

While Oryx and Savathûn have been having conniptions and enduring losses trying to kill the Traveler and outwit and overpower the Guardians, Xivu Arath has CANONICALLY just been off terrorizing the entire Cabal Empire for centuries and winning at it.

They’re so almost eldritchly brilliant and frightening but they’re also. So stupid.

-Ir Anuk and Ir Halak regularly bully Crota. These are all ancient dark gods, mind you. But like. The twins take time out of their day to be petty and write gothic iambic pentameter poetry about how their brother is a insensate meathead with not a shred of elegance in his entire body.

-One time Xivu Arath blew up an entire MOON, an entire fucking PLANETOID just to own Oryx, her brother. It worked and he died and then was like “HAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAAA GOOD PRANK BRO”.

-Savathûn experiments on her own court and one time she accidentally got a bunch of scared ascendants killed and THEN devoured messily by a supermassive black hole and was like “hmmmm. I see. So the parameters need adjustment, then.”

-Oryx actually used to be a really big softy. He tried to make peace with some of the early civilizations the Hive fought because he just didn’t have the heart to kill them. Savathûn, the elegant, prissy nerd, fucking Killed Him For It, showing her colors as lowkey the scariest of the three despite being the least directly imposing. She also chemically bombed that entire planet so that nothing would entire live on it ever again.

-Dûl Incaru canonically owns a fine tea-set. The Hive drink tea. It is implied, and perhaps stated outright, that Hive tea is dangerously poisonous to humans, and also a potent psychoactive. The Hive drink Peyote tea.

-The Hive and the Fallen CANONICALLY HAVE AN INFAMOUS HISTORY OF CALLING TRUCES to.... To fucking...,to. AHEM. To have romantic relations.

-This gets a lot funnier when you consider the fact that the Hive canonically caused the Fallen Whirlwind, aka, caused the Eliksni to have a fucking APOCALYPSE. The Darkness may have been there, watching, but Oryx’s brood are canonically the ones who got their hands dirty and tore apart the entire damn civilization.

Both species responded to this by taking a good, long look at the other and going “hmmmmm idk. They’re kinda. Hot..... What if.... We held.... Claws?”

-The Worm Gods are deeply petty, and don’t always necessarily work together, either, despite.... Being the same species. On the same side. In the same pantheon. With the same purpose. And the same ideology.

Yuul threatened to eat Xol one time, and it scared Xol so bad they decided to pick up their bags and move solar systems to go hang out with Oryx’s gay disowned son.

-Oryx got sick of HIS particular patron Worm God and decided to kill it and make it into his house.

....This. Shockingly..... Worked.

-Oryx told Crota to “come home glorious, or DIE FORGOTTEN” before tossing him through a Vex portal, but when his son actually DID get killed, permanently, he legged it to the Sol system in a fucking frantic fit of grief and got so fucking Pissed When Mara Sov and the Awoken tried to slow him down that he blew up his own fleet, just to swat her and the entire Awoken Navy like flies, basically self-sabotaging his own campaign and directly leading to his own death.

He also spents the entire Taken War berating and gnashing his teeth at the Crota’s Bane fireteam for killing his son. He gets pretty emotional about it.

We see through you, Nightmare-Daddy. You’re a softy for your idiot bonehead son.

-Oryx’s twin daughters can be heard almost perpetually giggling and snickering at you while you fight them in the Kingsfall raid. This is, perhaps, appropriate, considering the fact that they were the only adversaries to not die on their own thrones, and thus are likely the only bosses we faced who actually survived the whole debacle.

Speaking of Savathûn and black holes, I would like to bring up that the last known recorded sighting of Savathûn is when she got so pissed off that Oryx was getting stronger than her, that she told him they should see other people, and that she should be more different.

SO THIS DRAMATIC BITCH TOOK HERSELF, HER SHIPS, HER ARMY'S, AND YEETED (Yote? Yotunn?) HERSELF INTO A BLACKHOLE.

Could you imagine a sibling rivalry so petty that one of the siblings has a meltdown so large they (canonically btw) jump into a black hole out of spite?

How about the Mara bedtime situation?

With Shaxx the apparent god of all Shakespearean literature?

The Osmium dynasty’s backstory reads like a particularly sardonic episode of the Golden Girls. Oryx writes an entire poem about how proud of his daughters he is.

Savathûn, the only sibling of the Primeval Three to hold a braincell, canonically says “humdinger”, and bounces her sinister schemes off of confused children she pulls from murder-class. Because she can. Imagine you’re 5 and you’re learning arts and class and the president calls you to the White House and tells you about her really sneaky plan to trick an entire other country and also commit tax fraud and pay off the national debt.

Xivu Arath is objectively a herbo jock, but figures out how to open portals and space time before either of her objectively genius-IQ sorceror siblings do bc she happened to go “haha sword goes swoosh swoosh” just right one day and open a spacebridge with her godly powers.

The siblings used to prank oneanother by just. Blowing up the other’s ENTIRE FUCKING ARMADA if one ever let their guard down and exposed their flank.

While Oryx and Savathûn have been having conniptions and enduring losses trying to kill the Traveler and outwit and overpower the Guardians, Xivu Arath has CANONICALLY just been off terrorizing the entire Cabal Empire for centuries and winning at it.

They’re so almost eldritchly brilliant and frightening but they’re also. So stupid.

-Ir Anuk and Ir Halak regularly bully Crota. These are all ancient dark gods, mind you. But like. The twins take time out of their day to be petty and write gothic iambic pentameter poetry about how their brother is a insensate meathead with not a shred of elegance in his entire body.

-One time Xivu Arath blew up an entire MOON, an entire fucking PLANETOID just to own Oryx, her brother. It worked and he died and then was like “HAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAAA GOOD PRANK BRO”.

-Savathûn experiments on her own court and one time she accidentally got a bunch of scared ascendants killed and THEN devoured messily by a supermassive black hole and was like “hmmmm. I see. So the parameters need adjustment, then.”

-Oryx actually used to be a really big softy. He tried to make peace with some of the early civilizations the Hive fought because he just didn’t have the heart to kill them. Savathûn, the elegant, prissy nerd, fucking Killed Him For It, showing her colors as lowkey the scariest of the three despite being the least directly imposing. She also chemically bombed that entire planet so that nothing would entire live on it ever again.

-Dûl Incaru canonically owns a fine tea-set. The Hive drink tea. It is implied, and perhaps stated outright, that Hive tea is dangerously poisonous to humans, and also a potent psychoactive. The Hive drink Peyote tea.

-The Hive and the Fallen CANONICALLY HAVE AN INFAMOUS HISTORY OF CALLING TRUCES to.... To fucking...,to. AHEM. To have romantic relations.

-This gets a lot funnier when you consider the fact that the Hive canonically caused the Fallen Whirlwind, aka, caused the Eliksni to have a fucking APOCALYPSE. The Darkness may have been there, watching, but Oryx’s brood are canonically the ones who got their hands dirty and tore apart the entire damn civilization.

Both species responded to this by taking a good, long look at the other and going “hmmmmm idk. They’re kinda. Hot..... What if.... We held.... Claws?”

-The Worm Gods are deeply petty, and don’t always necessarily work together, either, despite.... Being the same species. On the same side. In the same pantheon. With the same purpose. And the same ideology.

Yuul threatened to eat Xol one time, and it scared Xol so bad they decided to pick up their bags and move solar systems to go hang out with Oryx’s gay disowned son.

-Oryx got sick of HIS particular patron Worm God and decided to kill it and make it into his house.

....This. Shockingly..... Worked.

-Oryx told Crota to “come home glorious, or DIE FORGOTTEN” before tossing him through a Vex portal, but when his son actually DID get killed, permanently, he legged it to the Sol system in a fucking frantic fit of grief and got so fucking Pissed When Mara Sov and the Awoken tried to slow him down that he blew up his own fleet, just to swat her and the entire Awoken Navy like flies, basically self-sabotaging his own campaign and directly leading to his own death.

He also spents the entire Taken War berating and gnashing his teeth at the Crota’s Bane fireteam for killing his son. He gets pretty emotional about it.

We see through you, Nightmare-Daddy. You’re a softy for your idiot bonehead son.

-Oryx’s twin daughters can be heard almost perpetually giggling and snickering at you while you fight them in the Kingsfall raid. This is, perhaps, appropriate, considering the fact that they were the only adversaries to not die on their own thrones, and thus are likely the only bosses we faced who actually survived the whole debacle.

Speaking of Savathûn and black holes, I would like to bring up that the last known recorded sighting of Savathûn is when she got so pissed off that Oryx was getting stronger than her, that she told him they should see other people, and that she should be more different.

SO THIS DRAMATIC BITCH TOOK HERSELF, HER SHIPS, HER ARMY'S, AND YEETED (Yote? Yotunn?) HERSELF INTO A BLACKHOLE.

Could you imagine a sibling rivalry so petty that one of the siblings has a meltdown so large they (canonically btw) jump into a black hole out of spite?

It’s really nice to do these, sometimes. Talk about the details and thoughts in your head that you can’t really express in a conversation fluidly-

Or at least thoughts you can’t bring up without it being awkward, or weird, or whatever the hell you want to call it.

Occasionally, there’s a feeling I get in my gut whenever I’m sitting next to someone that I’ve got an attraction to.

At the moment, I have no precise word to describe this feeling, and I attribute it to the idea of feeling “heavy”? But I know that isn’t right.

Basically, once in a blue moon when I sit down next to someone I have an attraction to, I feel myself get very heavy and tense, and it feels like everything is in slow motion.

Everything has a greatly increased sense of tensity and importance to it, and I can notice and almost feel all of the tiny insignificant things and details that I wouldn’t normally, like the tapping of fingers, the noise of breathing, my own heartbeat/the blood flowing through my veins, etc.

Whenever I’m in this state there is a high sense of tension between me and the other individual, and it’s fairly noticeable to both of us.

But it’s not anything bad, just in a way uncomfortable? And highly noticeable?

I don’t think I fully comprehend or understand this state, nor can I perfectly describe it, so:

Dear Somebody,

Do you know what this feeling can be called?

I’m not feeling particularly worried about it and pondering if i’ll get affected or not doesn’t help. I take it as it comes and in the meantime I can only hope staff can lower the gun from their own website and rethink what they’re essentially doing to their users