#hyperobjects

[creekfiend]

when I had mush room 🍄 tea I had an experience where it was like all the trauma was just ripped away, like those viral tiktoks of people powerwashing their front walkway that they thought was black and it's like SURPRISE! ITS ACTUALLY RED UNDERNEATH! YOU SPENT TWENTY YEARS THINKING IT WAS BLACK! and it was a very like, bitch you live like this???? moment... like whoa I knew sort of theoretically that cptsd was a really huge and disabling problem for me but having that all just lifted away was like oh wow 75% of my personality is just trauma. huh. welp.

and now I can feel it, like, before it was just like well this is business as usual. sometimes things just happen in my nervous system and it's completely inscrutable and random but now I'm like ohhhh that horrible carbonated feeling is TRAUMA. THAT'S ANXIETY. THATS YOUR SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM. YOURE JUST LYING IN BED FOR HOURS MARINATING IN SCARED(TM)

anyway. enlightening experience. would really like to have it again and also TO NOT BE TRAUMATIZED

[solomonara]

I was just gonna rant in the tags about how much I HIGHLY recommend Hyperobjects, but then I realized not including a link would be a disservice, so: https://archiveofourown.org/works/32968981

It's a soulmate fic set in space with a unique soulmate mechanic and non-standard voice that'll blow you away. It's so good. It's everything the asker above said, and it's also funny. It's perfect.

Heya! Just had to let you know that I am rereading your jaydick fic Hyperobjects for about the 20th time. I know I have already commented, but I must say again how phenomenal and amazing and endearing and sweet and exciting and romantic and lovely it is. One of my all-time favorites. I am all starry-eyed again. :)

AAAAHHH 😭💕🫂 thank you for letting me know, I am so so glad you're enjoying it still!!! Wow, seriously thank you, this really made my day. It was such a fun fic to write, I'm so glad the fun is still there when reading 💕✨️ It's such a magical feeling to find those fics you know you'll reread, thank you for letting me know this is one of them 🥺

[tinydinospodcast]

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Succession

Season 4, “With Open Eyes”

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[blenheimapricot1999]

breakfast potatoes got me on wikipedia .reading about timothy morton

[borjanon]

the moonlight butterfly... the ultimate machine.....

[thedruidocelot]

Defining "The Everything"-

The short and sweet version- It is a hyperobject that I consider as a bubble wrapped around a number of intersecting hyperobjects, and things that might as well be hyperobjects, in a socio-political sense.

I like to gesture to it as an explanation for why my anxiety and depression have been as bad as they are for well over two decades at this point, but that point in time is based on when i started paying attention, partly because i was 14 in 2005, and had different problems on my plate other than "the all consuming stress made up of the cosmic horror that is living in the world in the way that it exists". (and no. this does not mean that things were better before 2005. this is an extremely long running situation that has been going on for far longer than i have been alive, and longer than the US has even been considered a country.)

the longer version is below the readmore.

I will not bother explaining what a hyperobject is (not because google is free, but because its a concept that will take more words to explain that I really wish to be using right now, and it is, on its own, a concept that has a lot going on with it.) but I will give an example of one that most people at this point should be relatively aware of- Anthropogenic Climate Change.

Because the way humans have caused climate change to this extent, its a situation that impacts so much that it is INCREDIBLY difficult to comprehend the full scope of it. (its why its a hyperobject) But more things intersect with climate change than just are spawned by the way humans have impacted the planet.

and they aren't entirely nested subjects.

while yes- the current rising of fascism is related to climate change (and the desperation of the ownership class to hang onto every last scrap of power they can, while openly denying that the situation that has been caused by themselves and their predecessors is even happening) it is not wholly nested inside of climate change as a subject. more of an intersecting ellipses on a venn diagram situation overall.

the same goes with ableism and eugenics, and the constant tides of absolute genocidal intent towards disabled people. it existed before fascism even began to be conceptualizes, and while it is a key tenant of fascism to subjugate, hate, and murder disabled people, it is not a thing that only exists within fascism. (note the number of supposed leftists who absolutely despise disabled people and consider them to be a privileged class and not a group of marginalized people who live on the very margins of society, isolated from their own communities.)

those things all intersect with other situations that at this point might as well be hyperobjects (because they encompass so much at once, and effect so much all at once)- capitalism, the white supremacist cishetero patriarchy, etc.

and become their own hyperobject, that encompasses most, if not all, of modern life.

A hyperobject that I have been calling:

The Everything

And its partly due to a lack of a better term for it, since its the intersection of a number of complex systems, and at least 3 separate hyperobjects, all of which are incredibly stressful to have to deal with, and partly because it intersects with so much, it might as well be EVERYTHING.

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[moyogash]

Small update for today! Working on the first level for the game.

What was added:

Axe weapon

death, attack, and pain sprites for Gummy Bear Enemy!

An anarcho-communist flag is in front of the beginning house.

more pathways

What I plan on doing before next Sunday:

Skybox design

Orange enemy design

Finish the logo and maybe the title screen?

-MOYOGASH

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Succession

Season 4, “America Decides”

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DoP: Katelin Arizmendi

[iishmael]

i just read an essay on queer ecology that made me want to sit down. while i was already sitting down

[weirdsatellites]

IMINT #1901 from Topaz 3 (Q CLEARANCE) 1. Maze of Graves 2. Hyperobject Furnace 3. Library of Misty Letters

[neramontagueofficial]

At the KCC I learned basic principles of NHP physiology, even if it wasn't a course I excelled in or thought I would ever need (I too would be a poor companion in a relationship like you had I think, perhaps that is why I feel so drawn to explain Marten) but you're smaller, interpolated from a hyperobject prime, are you not? Separated out from its whole, made static and formable so we may interact like this. I wonder if the primes became as they are through timeless self-reflection in the blink, self-iterating as they had no outside to manifest against. I don't know of them, and I barely understand what is meant by "hyperobject." (Maybe I too am an interpolation of something bigger, a folded manifestation of Montague,)

But I know there were things out there, intellectually. The omninet uses the blink, the gates as well, but when I look into the nothing of realspace I see stuff reflected back at me. No matter how far the nothing goes the light of a star shines back, nebulae, their distance betrayed not by visual obscuration but by temporal delay.

I am used to being in "nothing" and seeing something, because something exists suspended somewhere in the void. The knowledge of what is there decayed in the instant I saw nothing suspended within it, heard no call, no signs on sensors, no clock ticking up, no feed from omni-enabled intel networks.

But who is to say what the primes look like, if I could see them at all. Perhaps next I meet the void I will meditate on the knowledge that at least they share the space with me.

When I looked into the blink I saw nothing and nothing and nothing.

Not the nothing of space (for you can see stars there) nor the nothing of the empty feed (it is uncertainty it is not true absence) but true nothing. Void that goes on forever.

When faced with nothing, I was forced to turn inward. I had to define myself without an outside to define myself by. And against nothing, what am I?

I am meat. I am mass. I am merely things. Merely this.

There was a point during my stay in the blink where I closed my eyes and tried to dream of home. I sit here in my quarters and wonder if this is a crude extension of those dreams. I never got to stay in Ispahsalar for long enough, as an adult, for it to feel familiar, but I have been in these quarters for months. Maybe this is still the dream. I have tricked myself with the familiar in order to stave off the realization that I am still there.

If I stay in les Fulgurites, I will see the blink again. How long until it is the home I return to, and realspace the temporary inconvenience?

I have to find a way out of here.

[damnation-valley]

yknow i think we need to talk more about Wilson in the true ending

how he starts out as this small and helpless thing trapped inside a defective non-mobile body despite being fully sentient, only to then become part of (and consequently become) something unfathomably large and powerful, something more than just a building, or just a compound, or just a control system. i could (and just might) argue that uploaded Wilson (and with him the Arbeit and Combine systems) approaches the definition of a hyperobject, or perhaps fits it to a t. but my point here is: all of that was possible because, back when he was small and powerless to enact any sort of agency over even his own existence, someone helped him. yes, meeting 36 was basically a coincidence, and yes, originally he took Wilson with him because he had no other choice, but what matters is that when he was given a choice to leave him (which would make his traversal infinitely easier), 36 took him along. and it matters so much that even when he had every reason to believe Wilson was gone, he still fulfilled the wish timidly shared with him hours prior. underneath the snappy remarks and the "shut up"s and the emotional constipation, 36 cared, and in the end, that was enough to save Wilson. so of course, when the roles are suddenly reversed, and now it's 36 who is powerless to escape the torture inflicted on him, Wilson comes to help with no hesitation. of course he does.

[swordatsunset]

Doctor Who?? in MY impenetrable and strange academic book???? more likely than i think..

[malfiora]

Dick Hears Voices (WIP)

"What?" And Dick can feel the moment Clark's X-ray vision starts to probe him. He lets it happen. Clark won't find any injury that can explain this. "You're hearing voices in your head?"

Dick nods. "Just one voice. They call themself NightWing and they've been narrating at me since the Tyrant attacked. Except they say they've been here all along. They talk like they're trying to show me something, but it's all cryptic."

Clark's hand squeezes Dick's shoulder. "I'll check the Fortress for any mention of this and get back to you, okay? Have you told Bruce?"

Dick resists rolling his eyes. "Take a guess."

Clark purses his lips. "Fine. Just...be careful. For me." And he stands up and hovers over the building. "Talk to you soon," and then he's gone.

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Half a day later, Dick gets a text.

The voice is harmless. It'll fade when it gets what it wants. Good luck!

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On a related note, to read Hyperobjects.