#zag+

[Miralles et al. 2026 CC BY-NC 4.0]

A few weeks ago, friends and colleagues of mine (I was not involved) published this incredible new species of legless skink that makes distinctive zig-zag markings in the sand as it 'swims' through it.

[Miralles et al. 2026 CC BY-NC 4.0]

So they called it Zig zag.

ZIG ZAG, CORAL!

Its been a damn while!! Long story short, I'm going through recovery, so everything slowed down to the max.

They built the theme of ending cycles and letting go and bettering your circumstances over forever being miserable rather well actually. Melinoe grapples with it a lot in her travels when you think about it: with arachne, with dora, with echo. In every one of those scenarios, she realizes that anger and revenge for an eternity would not resolve the issue at hand. In dora's she even almost reaches the point where she realizes that dora has a right to revenge... and that revenge would mean her own family and friends' dying because they are the ones who wronged her. But she always falls short of applying it to her own situation—continuously she approaches the cusp of realizing her own immortal community are not filled with good people and that the solution is actually to become better going forwards... only to the immediately drop it when it comes to applying it directly to her own situation.