#upended

Byf's video Myelin's video

I suggest watching them to check what they both say in full because I'll just try and summarise as quickly as possible (edit after finishing the post: lol).

The giant machine hanging above the worm is the Upended. Both Byf and Myelin conclude the same and all lore points to it being the case from multiple points of view (Rhulk himself, Savathun, Xita).

I'm genuinely not sure why Byf insists we watch Myelin's video. It's not really wrong, but it's very disorganised and confusing. Byf makes a much more concise explanation. He also points out multiple times that everything so far is speculation which is true. The only thing we know is that the machine above the worm is the Upended.

I thought this wouldn't be a long post but alas :( The rest under the cut:

(for someone who’s drifting)

Let’s say you’ve got something big you’re taking your kids to. Your friends are getting married. And they’re making it a family-friendly event.

Even so, it’s something your kids have never done before. So you try to help them out. By explaining to them what’s going to happen. How it’s going to go.

No questions at first. In the days to come, questions start to trickle in. You answer all of them.

And each time, you take the opportunity to tell them what’s going to happen. Again, and again.

The day of the wedding? It’s a complete surprise to them. Like you never said a thing.

Sound familiar? It does to Jesus.

In the months leading up to Good Friday, Jesus told His disciples what would happen to Him. Jesus answered their all questions. Even the weird ones from Simon. Again, and again.

Good Friday? It’s a complete surprise to them. Like Jesus never said a thing.

Much less told them that He was coming back.

How do I know this?

This week’s Gospel readings. Not a single disciple of Jesus is thinking about what Jesus told them would happen. No one is having a lightbulb moment, going “oh, that’s what Jesus was talking about.”

Instead, some of them are hiding in fear. Others are giving up and walking home.

Those closest to Jesus? That’s today’s Gospel.

They bailed out and are back at their old jobs. Like none of it ever happened.

The only constant? Jesus.

And the way that Jesus responds. To all of them.

Jesus doesn’t wait for any of them to figure it out. Or even remember what He told them.

The ones in hiding? Jesus hides with them.

The ones walking home? Jesus walks with them.

The ones back at their old jobs? Jesus goes to work with them.

It’s a pattern with Jesus.

Jesus loves them too much to wait for them to figure it all out.

Instead, Jesus is seeking them out. Right where they are.

Sound familiar? It should.

Because Jesus sees you and me the same way.

No matter what you’re doing or not doing. No matter how much your normal has been upended by everything you’re dealing with.

Jesus loves you much to wait for you to figure it all out.

Instead, Jesus is seeking you out. Right where you are.

born into a bad scene

escaped into a bad marriage decades of abuse

then falling out into another bad scene

then another

another

loss abandonment betrayal

finally

nothing but alone and starved

and now this

love mercy lovingkindness gentle sweetness a prince has found my slipper

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There have been simply days left to course of a batch of federal monetary help purposes when Training Division officers made a fateful discovery: 70,000 emails from college students all around the nation, containing reams of important knowledge. They had been sitting in an inbox, untouched. That discovery final week began a panicked, three-day crash effort by greater than 200 of the division’s staff, together with Richard Cordray, the nation’s high scholar help official, to learn by means of every of the emails one after the other and extract essential figuring out data required for monetary help. The scholars’ futures trusted it. “It must get untangled,” Mr. Cordray advised his workers members on Thursday, in keeping with recordings of two back-to-back conferences that The New York Instances obtained. “So, you recognize, I’m getting fairly impatient.” An exasperated workers member shot again, “We labored all night time lengthy — actually — all night time.” It was one other setback within the botched rollout of a brand new model of the Free Utility for Federal Scholar Support, generally known as FAFSA, that thousands and thousands of households and 1000's of faculties depend on to find out how college students pays for faculty. Three years in the past, Congress ordered the Training Division to revamp the brand new type to make it simpler and extra accessible. It has been something however. For practically six months, college students and colleges navigated a bureaucratic mess brought on by extreme delays in launching the web site and processing crucial data. A sequence of blunders by the division — from a haphazard rollout to technical meltdowns — have left college students and colleges in limbo and plunged essentially the most crucial stage of the school admissions season into disarray.

‘Hanging on by their fingernails’

In a traditional yr, college students could be sorting by means of their monetary help presents by now, giving them loads of time to organize for the normal choice day on Could 1, when many colleges count on commitments. However this isn't a traditional yr. Due to the delays within the FAFSA rollout, colleges wouldn't have the data they want from the federal government to assemble monetary help presents. College students have needed to postpone selections about the place to attend school as a result of they do not know how a lot help they are going to obtain. Many colleges are pushing again their enrollment deadlines to provide college students extra time to determine their funds, throwing school budgets and wait lists into chaos. The Training Division has promised to satisfy a self-imposed deadline of Friday to ship college students’ monetary data to colleges. However the job forward is monumental. The division is working with 5 million purposes which can be in to date, however greater than 10 million further ones are anticipated to roll in as college students make their manner by means of the method, which is still not functioning without delays. “Monetary help places of work throughout the nation are hanging on by their fingernails at this level,” mentioned Justin Draeger, the chief govt of the Nationwide Affiliation of Scholar Monetary Support Directors.

A damaged system

The purpose of the revamped FAFSA system was to simplify the notoriously bewildering type by whittling it down from more than 100 questions to fewer than 40 and making it extra accessible to lower-income college students. However it was not able to roll out in October, when the FAFSA type often turns into out there for college students to submit their households’ monetary particulars to the federal government. In late December, when the system lastly launched, the issues had been instantly obvious. Technical malfunctions prevented many college students from having access to the shape on the web site. College students reported being repeatedly kicked out or locked out of the shape, or hung up on after holding for half-hour to 3 hours for somebody to reply the division’s assist line. The bungled rollout has upended a crucial perform of the federal scholar help course of. The federal government wants the FAFSA data to calculate how a lot federal help college students ought to obtain. The colleges, in flip, want that quantity to make their very own calculations about how a lot a scholar ought to count on to pay at that individual school or college, after tallying up tuition and any additional scholarships. For a lot of college students, the FAFSA estimate, which is usually acquired earlier than they even hear again from any of the faculties they utilized to, is the primary signal of hope that school is inside attain.

College students in limbo

Andrea, a senior at KIPP Denver Collegiate Excessive Faculty in Colorado, would be the first individual in her household to attend school. She has her coronary heart set on Duke College. However first, she has to navigate FAFSA. “It’s agonizing,” mentioned Andrea, 17, who requested to be recognized by her first title to guard her dad and mom, who immigrated to america from Mexico and are undocumented. “It’s deeper than a type. “It’s our futures.” Her case collided with maybe essentially the most pernicious flaw within the rollout: The brand new type froze out candidates who couldn't present a social safety quantity for themselves or their father or mother or caregiver, one thing that had not been a difficulty with the previous type. To get college students with lacking social safety knowledge authorised, the Training Division requested candidates like Andrea to submit by e-mail pictures of a driver’s license, id card or different paperwork that might confirm their id. Because the division ready to announce final week that the social safety quantity subject had been resolved, officers realized that the inbox, and its 70,000 emails, had gone untouched. That prompted Mr. Cordray to assemble emergency groups of volunteers to work time beyond regulation to blast by means of the backlog. The scholars, he mentioned, had been counting on them. “This can be a lot of the Dreamers, new immigrants and the type of people that, if they'll simply get a hand up within the larger schooling course of could make their manner on this nation,” Mr. Cordray mentioned. “We would like them to have the ability to do this.” Though the earlier FAFSA type was lengthy and complicated, seniors at Andrea’s college managed to fill out their varieties with out a lot incident in earlier years. KIPP Colorado, a part of a community of public constitution colleges with among the highest school acceptance charges for low-income college students within the nation, holds an annual FAFSA night time, when households collect to finish the shape collectively. This yr, solely about 20 % of the scholars at FAFSA night time had been in a position to full the shape — an enormous change from earlier years, college officers mentioned. Karen Chavez, an assistant principal of school and profession for KIPP Colorado, mentioned she often tried to guarantee college students that school is in attain. However she is scuffling with that message this yr. “It’s onerous for us as counselors, having to observe what I say or how I say issues,” she mentioned, “as a result of I need to guard their hearts and handle their expectations.”

Who’s accountable?

The Authorities Accountability Workplace has began an investigation into the FAFSA rollout on the request of Republicans, who say it took a again seat to different priorities, like President Biden’s scholar mortgage debt forgiveness applications. A number of senior officers on the White Home and the Training Division have cited unreasonably quick timelines, contractors who blew previous deadlines and inadequate funding. Talking on the situation of anonymity to brazenly talk about the issues, the officers acknowledged that different necessary assignments, similar to restarting federal mortgage repayments and reopening colleges after the coronavirus pandemic, used up important assets. “It’s not the case that anybody right here didn’t understand how necessary this venture is or how huge this venture is,” mentioned James Kvaal, the underneath secretary on the Training Division. “And it’s been a high precedence for us on the very highest ranges of the division going again a yr and a half now.” There have been apparent misses, similar to a scarcity of strong consumer testing wanted to catch what would turn into dozens of main technical issues. And the Training Division realized solely in November that it had not adjusted a crucial revenue method, which might have denied greater than $1 billion in help to college students. Even because the division has tried to venture optimism about its progress, officers privately harbored doubts. On Feb. 13, Miguel A. Cardona, the schooling secretary, advised reporters that when the technical issues had been cleared, FAFSA could be a “15-minute course of” and a “internet win” for college students and colleges. Every week later, at a workers assembly, Mr. Cordray had a distinct evaluation: “It’s actually unhealthy,” he mentioned, in keeping with individuals who heard the remarks. “It might worsen.” In response to a request for remark for this text, Mr. Cordray mentioned the Training Division’s focus was on delivering an up to date and streamlined FAFSA. “Our staff is targeted not on finger-pointing,” he mentioned, “however on getting extra federal scholar help to deserving college students and households.”

The stakes