#category: unhinged

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Thebookofmoomin

[iamnotawomanimagod]

The best unhinged traits/moments for the characters in The Decameron:

When faced with violence that saves herself or her friends, Licisca almost always lets out a deranged cackle.

There are multiple moments where things are a little scary but going mostly fine, and then Filomena opens her mouth and says something she thinks will fix everything but actually dooms them. ("Licisca killed a bad cardinal! For God!")

Sirisco and his love for the little duck. Made better when the duck abandons him at first chance.

Stratilia mostly staying out of the way for the first half of the season because she's too busy trying to keep the villa running - but when the bandits attack in the first episode, her response is to wander around the chaos in the background, watching everyone panic while she laughs and eats an apple.

Panfilo being the most level-headed person in the villa, and therefore learning pretty much everyone else's secrets by like episode 3. (But he never reveals them, b/c he's perfect.)

Dioneo's entire existence as a Hot Doctor who is also poisoning his primary patient, so Tindaro has to stay in his chambers while Dioneo gets to go and enjoy the riches of a nobleman. Dioneo is far and away the more likeable and honorable person out of the two of them.

Tindaro info-dumping about the Romans every chance he gets, giving major autistic energy. (He's also a pompous asshole, but that's not relevant to the autism, that's a symptom of Nobleism.)

Licisca sees wriggling fish still alive in the stream and cries out like she's been presented with a delicious pastry. Then she smacks one against a rock to kill it while in her fancy noblewoman costume.

Everything Neifile does.

Feel free to add more!

[thewhumpcaretaker]

Hi I have a Jungian question:

[bigshunt]

Danny Ric spotted in Melbourne!!? Manifestation works??!?!

[waitineedaname]

idk why but I can't stop thinking of yoo joonghyuk as a girl. I see him on the screen and my first thought is "oh my insane girl <3"

[thefirstknife]

I had some questions about what Vance actually did with the infinite forest during arrivals, did he seal it off or did he shut it down? I wonder what he actually did becuase people were more worried about Asher and Sloane at the time that I didn't hear too much about Vance.

He sealed it! Last we saw, when he did that, the Forest was still functional inside, just sealed from within.

Unfortunately, we really have no clue what that means at this point. Since the Witness took Mercury, does this mean that the Witness could not access the Forest? What about the Vex? Can they access the Forest? Does Mercury being in the anomaly affect that at all? Are there still Vex on Mercury? What about the Vex from inside the Forest? This is what keeps me up at night.

There are some interesting dialogues from Osiris back from Season of Dawn when we were trying to stop the Red Legion from destroying the Forest. This one for example:

Sealing the Infinite Forest could have drawn unwanted attention from within the Vex Network. Your efforts have stymied another front from supplanting our focus. You seem to have a knack for averting crisis, Guardian.

This seems to imply that the Vex would know if anything were to happen to the Forest, like sealing it. But this doesn't help us now because Mercury is in the anomaly. We simply have no clue if the Vex can do anything about the Forest while Mercury is in there. More under:

It's also interesting to note that Osiris didn't really have a plan for doing anything to the Infinite Forest before Mercury got yoinked. He was super worried about it and he was incredibly upset about losing the Forest, but he never really said anything about needing to protect it or seal it to prevent the Darkness from messing with it during Arrivals. In Dawn, with the Sundial, he explicitly talked about not wanting it to be destroyed or made inaccessible because he still needs it. For example:

There are secrets still to be uncovered in the Forest. I cannot allow it to be sealed. Not yet.

And:

As tempting as it would be to watch the Infinite Forest burn, it's too monumental a shift for our timeline to withstand.

And:

To seal shut the passage into the Forest would breed far more harm than good.

And:

The Infinite Forest is preserved. For now. I wish to decide the fate of those endless passages myself. We have not yet reached the end of its usefulness.

Of course, this was all before a Pyramid landed on Mercury and before Mercury was endangered. Would Osiris want the Forest sealed if he knew Mercury was going to be taken by the Witness? We have no idea. But him insisting that we still need it and that its existence is important sure is interesting. Still, strange that Osiris did not take any measures to do this himself. However, Vance appears to have followed instructions he found written in Osiris' texts to be able to seal it himself.

I'm not sure anyone in-game fully knows what Vance did. He did tell us that he plans to seal the Forest and that we can help him, which was what we were doing for the Mercury evacuation quest.

"Quantum cracks yawn in the Forest where echoes of Vex, Hive, Cabal, and Osiris swirl in a gyre. Strike these stress points, and I could seal the Forest from within."

But as far as anyone is concerned, nobody really saw him go there. As I mentioned before, Saint even looked for him and when he didn't find him in the Lighthouse, he assumed that Vance just evacuated. But they do know now that he stayed on Mercury and is presumed dead, much like Asher and Sloane were. Ikora mentioned him back in Splicer when she was explaining Solstice of Heroes to Mithrax and listed him among the dead alongside Asher, Sloane, Cayde and Sagira (obviously at the time we believed Sloane to be dead on Titan).

We know from lore that he built something called the Infinite Simulacrum which he used to seal the Forest. He's shown building it at the end of Trials and Tribulations (the lore book about the tones). This is happening around the start of Arrivals, just before the Pyramids arrive. It's interesting that he was preparing this machine before the Pyramids showed up:

Vance stood in the old Lighthouse, frantically assembling the Infinite Simulacrum: a machine formed from bits of simulation seeds and connective Vex architecture to mimic a pocket forest. Textured notes and schematics derived from Osirian lore guided his hand.

He used "Osirian lore" to make this device and as far as we know, it worked. We have no clue how he did that and how it worked. But it did!

He struggled with his pack as a tempest beat on his eardrums. He withdrew his Infinite Simulacrum, impossibly small in this immense space, and with trembling fingers synchronized it to the frequency of the crack in the Forest. It ticked like a metronome and then… Silence. The Forest was sealed.

The rest of this lore tab is bizarre, as Vance manifests the golden copies of himself and then attacks one of them and blinds it, which is strongly implied to be the reason why he is blind in the first place. Time shenanigans possibly? But we don't know anything else and we don't know the state of the Forest right now. Again, the Witness must've taken Mercury for a reason and the Forest is probably that reason, but since it was sealed... It's unclear what the Witness may have been doing with it, if anything at all.

Vance strongly believed back in evacuation that the Forest and the Pyramid on Mercury are tied together and important:

"Osiris, the Forest, the Pyramid," he says. "There are connections here that go beyond simple prophecy—" He stops abruptly, then whispers in the silence. "As Guardians fall in the Trials, this Lighthouse chimes a dirge. Can't you hear it? Here, in the shadow of the Pyramid, the tones have grown richer."

And here:

Vance traces an arcing hypotrochoid spiral on a thick piece of parchment. "Osiris used obscene amounts of Fractaline to power the obelisks," he says, shaking his head at the paradoxes the old Warlock tempted. "Now I feel this taut reality tremble and groan. It anchors countless timelines, all pulling against the chronological center. And this Pyramid threatens to collapse them all." "The Infinite Forest is the key to all of this," he says. "How, I do not yet understand. Any help you could provide would be most welcome."

Cryptically and ominously, when the Pyramid arrived to Mercury, something that speaks in between the lines of text says this:

Vance |the implement| could hear |their inspired voices| weeping, not with tears, but in the |voracious| low |ceremonial| hum he had come to associate with death.

These additions to the text between | symbols only show up in the first lore tab of this lore book (where the Vex are shown pouring onto Mercury from a portal above it) and in the last lore tab where Vance is observing as the Pyramid arrives. Why is he "the implement"? The implement of what? I've not stopped thinking about this for three years.

So he definitely sealed the Forest, but we have no clue what's the true meaning of this. Did this prevent the Witness from using the simulation engine? Did this help the Witness? Was Vance tricked and used, manipulated through the tones? What about the Vex? Did this mess up something for the Vex or help them? We simply don't know, because Mercury is in the anomaly and we can't access it.

Since I'm hungry for literally any information, I went into unhinged mode over the state of the game article because it mentions a peculiar piece of information about that new pvp map, Multiplex. Yes, I'm at the stage where I'm looking for lore in an article about a new pvp map. However, consider:

Although many of us had been thinking about a lo-fi Vex map for the Crucible, the challenge of this palette was the possible lack of player orientation in the play space. We thought bringing the Mars palette into the Vex Network realm would be a great way to mitigate this while adding an evocative look. Narratively, the space is in the middle of compiling the Infinite Forest, so this is what you’ll see in action.

The Vex are doing a what now in the Vex Network? They're compiling the Infinite Forest? Like, the Vex have to be a major plot at some point in the future of the game so any of this might be setup for stuff that will resolve these questions about Mercury and the Infinite Forest. The Vex must know, in some way, that the Infinite Forest was taken from them by the Witness and also sealed from inside by Vance, which may or may not be a good thing for them (and may or may not be a good thing for us OR for the Witness).

I understand why people were more worried and interested in Asher and Sloane, but I was always most interested in this, ever since the tones. Seeing us get a closure for both Asher and Sloane makes me think (and hope) that at some point we have to also get closure for Mercury and Vance, which may also possibly tie into any Vex storyline because of how thouroughly the Vex converted Mercury into their machine world.

And of course, the Infinite Forest is there. This is super interesting to me in general now because Lightfall had a lot of stuff about simulations and virtual/augmented realities, as well as the Vex who are in the background of it all, but still not taking the central stage. They'll have to eventually and I'm hoping we'll get some information on Mercury and the fate of the Infinite Forest.

To fully add to the whole mystery, there's also the Veil. In Season of the Deep, Ikora and Osiris speculated about Titan's return and how it related to the Veil. Apparently, the Veil "noticed" when Titan returned:

"It's stronger… the Veil's signature." Ikora's voice carries a hint of learned suspicion. "Ever since we recovered Titan." "That is to be expected," Osiris retorts, now within the weave of droning Strand surrounding the Veil. The room around them trembles. "When Titan was torn back, the Veil took notice. It seemed to recognize Titan's arrival." Ikora tightens her grip on the Strand thread. "We have the Veil, our Ghosts… what are we missing? If we decipher the connection between Titan and the Veil, that connection might be what we need to follow the Witness."

And:

"Titan, Savathûn's throne world, every place we've found egregore… I haven't found the exact threads yet but pull one and they all seem to spin back to Neomuna. To the Veil." "You're getting ahead of yourself. Following some of my… less favorable tendencies. Nimbus says we must 'flow' to understand Strand; perhaps it is the same with the Veil." Osiris moves beside Ikora and reaches up, palm parallel to the threads drawn taut from Ikora's braid of Strand. "Sol remembered Titan, in a way. The Veil's signal spiked when Titan returned from memory to reality, when the rhythm of the solar system had been restored to order." Osiris drops his hand and looks to Ikora. "Perhaps we must simply find that rhythm before we are able to interpret the beats within it."

Would it then not help to also return Mercury and Io? Would the Veil react to that as well? Would that help us somehow? Restore the "rhythm of the solar system"? According to Ikora in this lore tab, spoken in such a way that I fully believe this to be a 4th wall break:

"We're too late in the game for something to mean nothing. It has to connect."

Yeah. It really has to. Put Mercury back right now and tell us what's going on with the Forest and the Vex.

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Teenagebream

[beanmaster-pika]

This is just my opinion but if you make an arrogant character and want them to be enjoyable in their victories they have to a) also be kind of unhinged, b) be a theater kid or a diva about it, or c) also kind of hate themselves.

[aster-go-brrr]

IM FROTHING AT THE MOUTH IM FERAL IM LOSING MY FUCKING MARBLES

[theinfinitedivides]

also what in the f*ckass Matrix sh*t is this

[snowwhitedraws]

Osha as a shielded daughter of a high ranked official in court, keeping secrets that he has twin daughters instead of one (It was also a secret that their mother was a witch)

Her and mae switching places as "Mae-ho", with mae being great in field combat and osha with combat tactics

everything went out of order when the king's most trusted general and right hand man, Qimir, arranged a coup

chaos ensues while massacres are everywhere

She loses her family, separated from her sister, hiding from authorities, trying to survive and when she thought she was far away from danger

Qimir tracks her.

[smut-and-circles]

If jsab is only one of them, what's your other obsessions rn?

Okay! so- let's get the main ones sorted out-

First off, JSaB. The usual, the goat, the one I started to pubicly draw the nasties off to show to people on the internet. Not bad, but I feel like I've done so much of it I can only revamp old concepts for it (which isn't as bad but my brain goes haywire and those concepts can be outdated in less than a week).

Still, very fun to do: 10/10

Next, Neon Genesis Evangelion. I like some of the robot and creature designs a little too much for my own good, but it's not as wild as my JSaB nasties, it's way more wholesome because holy shit everyone in that show is a fucking train wreck and deserve some love. Even the robots and creatures.

Although, fair, I only use my ocs when drawing it, because I literally just don't wanna draw any of the humans in the show- Also some of the designs are too complicated and my brain short circuits trying to remember them.

Kinda weird, but wholesome, if you wanna see giant robots getting it on : 9.5/10

We also have Kirby, surprisingly- It's kinda the same with the Evangelion one: I mostly only use ocs, it's more in a joke/wholesome note, but also can get really weird since, as I have mentioned, I like the robots and the big creachurs more than the main guys. Unironically, the one I started drawing first but not posting anything online because some part of the Kirby fandom almost kills me for just creating said ocs.

You can piece together the rest.

Kinda weird, but still fun, when I finally feel confident enough: 7/10

And I also like giant kaiju women being absolute menaces to society

Enough said: 100/10

[mandarinmoon]

curious if anyone learning chinese has used Clozemaster - and if so, how are you finding it?

as soon as i saw the chatgpt generated explainations, alarm bells went off! I don't know if I'm letting my chatgpt/AI sceptic mindset cloud my judgement but not super convinced by the accuracy of it...

like 睡觉??!? somehow I don't think we're talking about 睡觉 here... 😭

[chibishortdeath]

So I was playing Simon’s Quest (again) earlier and you guys might know by now that I’m incredibly normal (extremely deranged) about that game, but it’s got me thinking about something: what exactly are the hearts and why are they the money in this game?

Hearts in the first game and almost every game after Simon’s Quest are the thing that you need to collect to be able to use subweapons and they primarily come from candles, but enemies can drop them too. But in Simon’s Quest, while they do still power a couple subweapons, it’s only the ones we’ve never seen before like the Sacred Flame and Golden Knife while not being used for the Holy Water, something that does in every other game. And they only come from enemies because there’s no candles. And there’s different sizes of them. And collecting enough of them levels Simon up. And their primary function is completely shifted to currency!!! Odd, isn’t it?

And the whole way that you buy anything in this game is really framed like some black market sketchy deal. These sellers (or crooked traders with bum deals lol) are primarily holed away in their houses under one or two layers of walls and floors only breakable by magical infinite Holy Water, something only the local badass vampire hunter guy would have after having bought some with said hearts in the first town, or they’re way tucked away in the thick of these Dracula’s army overtaken mansions, some of them even standing directly where skeletons walk past them or in between relatively large pits of spikes. Whatever the reason, these guys obviously want this fairly secret. (Aside from the first town white crystal guy, he’s fine being out in the open lol.)

So what gives??? What is Simon grinding monsters for and trading with the locals for weapons and herbs???

Now this is where things get really ✨speculative✨. I’m gonna put the cut here for suspense and intrigue I guess lol XD. This is gonna be a lot of me thinking out loud and throwing down ideas, not really like a confirmed answer to anything, just havin fun thinkin about a part of a game d(•w• )

I think there’s a few possibilities. They could be the same thing that they are other games or they could be something different just used similarly as a power source.

But first we gotta break down what hearts could be in Cv1. In a lot of the games they seem to be some kind of a general mana, a magic energy possibly not unlike how metaphysical/magical things are depicted in other media. Perhaps the subweapons themselves are magic objects and not really a physical thing that require “hearts” to be conjured. Maybe they could be physical objects that need to be enchanted with “hearts” to be anywhere comparable to Vampire Killer level usefulness. Just a few possibilities.

If the hearts in Simon’s Quest are the same thing, then this kinda makes some sense. Simon trading monster soul energy or whatever with presumably magic users for things he needs on his Quest, especially since things like Laurels (also can be called bay laurels or bay leaves) are commonly used in spells and who better to be selling a spell component than someone who does spells! Also, it makes sense that these people would be fairly out of sight as magic use was still a touchy subject at the time.

Now I don’t know how accurate this is, and if I do find a source somewhere in my way too many bookmarks I will reblog this and link it to it, but I remember reading somewhere in an interview about either SotN or one of the games made close before it that the candles are like the souls of Dracula and his army’s victims that you free when you hit them and they leave you a little parting gift for it. Yes, these games were made way after, so it’s not certain if that was the original intent of these, but I figured it adds something to this.

But what if the hearts in Simon’s Quest are not the same thing? After all, the Holy Water doesn’t use them and we can’t say if they would or not work for other subweapons that appear in CV1 since they aren’t in this one. Well there’s something else that could be dropping from killing monsters that could also fit into the above probability that these traders are magic users and it’s a little darker!

Hearts! Bones! General viscera! And this also kinda makes sense! I mean the whole plot of the game revolves around Simon already carrying pieces of Dracula’s corpse around to burn all together on an altar to cure his and the surrounding area’s curse, it’s not that far of a stretch to say that he’d be fine with carrying around pieces of other monsters and that magic users might be willing to trade things for them so they can use them in their own spells, potions, and so on. And that might also explain why Holy Water isn’t powered by hearts and is incredibly weak in comparison in this game. And why these weird, new subweapons seem to be Simon exclusive! They could be powered by things like monster blood instead of the usual magic energy-ish stuff we’re used to hearts symbolizing.

Regardless of if I’m right or not with either of these, Simon is probably taking advantage of some underground monster essence/organs trade the whole game and this is just such an interesting batshit detail for him as a character.

Anyway, I love this game so much, I’m gonna be spreading propaganda for it like this a lot hopefully lol. Okie that’s it hope that was fun, do with this information what you will :)

[p-clodius-pulcher]

Trying to hypothesize upon history if Clodius didn’t die when he did is so hard for two reasons:

1. I don’t know enough about the everything to truly estimate the impact of him living if there even is any significant impact

2. He’s just so beaten to death core like truly if milo hadn’t done it I believe he would’ve been beaten to death by someone else naught two days later

[anrisimps]

Tyrant emperor, villainous saintess, narcisstic farmer.. Not a single day of peace in this household