#Cell salts

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Alice Lane's Guide to Cell Salts and Astro-Bio Chemistry - Zebra - 1975

[y0ur-maj3sty]

Cardinal signs are Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn. They’re cardinal because, they correspond to the 4 cardinal directions(North south east west). The role of cardinal signs is to push forward, be first, to initiate

Fixed signs are Scorpio, Taurus, Leo, and Aquarius. They’re called the “Cherubim” = Matthew Mark Luke John. These signs are fixed because, they’re in the middle of each quadrant of the zodiac(the height of each season). They’re steady and stable. They fix things in place, and are able to engage in sustained activity over a long period.

Mutable signs are Gemini, Virgo, Pisces, and Sagittarius. They are called mutable because they are the “chameleons” of each element, able to shift into many forms, and take on different personas. For example Virgin Mary(Virgo) is also Isis, Semaramis of Babylon, Diana of ancient Greece; Pollux and Castor(Gemini) is also Romulus and Remus, Cain n Abel, etc. Mutable is change.

Each sign of the zodiac is also associated with a specific Cell Salt that corresponds to it. For example Aries is potassium phosphate, Taurus is Sodium sulphate, Scorpio is calcium sulphate, etc. There are 12 basic biochemistry Cell Salts. As these are the things everything is made of, all that can be wrong with one psychologically or physically comes from a deficiency in one or more (as above so below as on the iner so on the outer). So, Adam Kadmon(macrocosmic man) is of the 12 signs/salts; moreover, us the microcosm is merely a smaller version of that.

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[lemonqueentm]

They had it coming!!

[echo-nt]

I know this has already been said and I’m super late, but Mia as the protag of RE8 would have been so good. The contrast between Mia, the Lords, and Mother Miranda would have been absolutely interesting. I'm shoving everything under a read more because damn I have so many thoughts about Mia.

Lady Dimitrescu is a woman that cannibalizes and drinks the blood of her servants and intruders. On top of that, she tortures before preying on them. She does this willingly and very much derives pleasure from doing so. Lady D’s gothic triplets hunt any poor fool that wanders in. It’s a fun family activity for them just as much as it’s for sustenance. 

Do you know what this parallels? The Baker family under Eveline’s control. They patrol the estate and anyone who rejects the “gift” either ends up molded or on the dinner table. This family also partakes in a fucked up version of a family dinner, eating the victims that refused their little girl’s “gift.” 

However, a major difference between the Baker and Dimitrescu family is their willingness to participate in these activities. A family of cannibals; one forced while the other relishes in it. 

Mia is still very traumatized by her three years in the Baker’s estate. Breaking into the castle to find her daughter would force her back. Hello to all the emotions that come with those memories, the ones Mia has been trying to forget. The harder you try to forget something, the more you think about it. What better way to make Mia acknowledge Dulvey, Louisiana than by forcing her into something so similar? 

And while she’s still reeling from remembering her time in captivity, why not push her a bit further down memory lane with House Beneviento? Mia has demonstrated at multiple points in RE7 that she does care about other lives. She lies to Ethan to keep him from getting caught up in her work. She tries to save Alan and crew members of "The Annabelle" (the crew members are a bit more indirect, she mainly focused on Alan) by containing Eveline. After Jack finds her, Mia keeps her distance to keep from infecting them while trying to write a warning. She tries her hardest during RE7 to save Ethan. 

Mia’s hallucinations could center on her guilt. The failure to stop Eveline and the lives ruined as a result. How she was always too late to help anyone. Ethan curing her, a criminal, over Zoe, the person helping him. Leaving Zoe behind in the shattered remains of her home and family. Surviving. Visions of Ethan hinting at his “condition” could lure her to the manor. A little nudge to the whole “he was mold the entire time” plot twist without fully giving it away. 

Moreau, lacking in self worth and very attached to a woman who doesn’t give him the time a day, yet still he considers her as his mother. Most of his actions are for the attention and validation from his “mother.” No matter what Moreau does, he’ll never have her affection or time. It’s sad, isn’t it? To witness a man try so hard only to be rejected. And isn’t that familiar? Mia once felt compassion for someone with similar traits. 

Remember the little girl who considered you her mother? The one that spent three years waiting for you to love her after you promised? The one you had a hand in killing? What makes you think you could ever be a good mother after what you did? Why are you trying so hard to save Rose when you didn’t even extend the same courtesy to Eveline?

Y’all know how Mia’s past is a mystery? Like why she was working for the Connections and how she was even recruited and all that. Heisenberg would be a great way to explore it. A man taken, forced into becoming something else, and stuck in a family he doesn’t want. Mia can relate. He wants to use her daughter as a weapon. She was willing to let another child be used as a weapon. They’re alike, so surely Mia would be willing to side with him.

But Heisenberg is cocky and Mia isn’t the person she was prior/during 7. Even if she was on board with using Eveline as a weapon to end all wars or whatever bullshit the Connections told her, she’s not willing now. Not after what she’s seen and been through. This section could be Heisenberg goading her through the tvs/intercoms about her past to change her mind with Mia remaining steadfast in her refusal.

And then there’s Mother Miranda. Two mothers trying to get their daughters back through vastly different means. Because of the group photo showing Mia and Miranda with Eveline this encounter can go one of two ways. 

Miranda and Mia know each other and have worked together before. Whether it be on the E-Series Project (with Mia becoming the caretaker and spending copious amounts of time at the lab) or though some other means at work. 

They’ve only briefly met when the Connections were in a hurry to transport Eveline.

Either way, Miranda would compare them. As a mother, Mia must understand what she’s trying to accomplish. Would Mia not do the same as she? Maybe at this point Miranda shows she killed Ethan to demoralize to prevent her from interfering with the ceremony. Tells her she’s too late once again and to give Rose to her because she’ll be the superior mother.

Idk, I guess you could switch to Ethan instead of Chris so he can still have Eveline tell him he’s moldy. But he’s a stubborn man and he forces himself back to weaken Miranda so Mia can kill her. Chris shows up and Ethan does the same thing he did at the end by blowing himself up with Chris forcing Mia (with Rose) on the helicopter. That way the Shadow of Rose DLC can still be about Rose and Ethan. 

TLDR; Mia should have been the protagonist because it would have allowed us to explore her character and background more. It was a missed opportunity especially since so much of RE8 centers around mothers. It would have played out better as closing off the Winters Family saga as well since we could have tied the loose ends that came with Mia’s mysterious past.

[licoricesus]

stuff

[shikai-the-storyteller]

It's taking me ages to write this chapter because every time I look through old VODs / notes to check something, I come across moments like this that make me want to lie down face-first on the floor:

[Context: Pac commits to the idea of taking the Happy Pills so he can create a cure. He's about to write a note to Cellbit to explain his plan.]

Pac: If Cellbit puts himself in this position, it's worse for everyone, because Cellbit is smarter when it comes to coming up with strategic plans, so he is the thinking mind of the Favela Five group, so if he no longer has the mind, he’s not capable of solving this whole problem, you know? But if I put myself in this position to help Cellbit so he can get the cure... You understand? It's better if I'm the bait. Right? I can't- I can't carry things alone guys, I've already lost Mike [...] if I lose Cellbit and I alone had to carry things, I won't be able to. But I think Cellbit can manage better. He is more independent, and he has Roier. He has a husband. I'm trying to– to be lucid here, understand? That's all.

Date: September 11, 2023 || Timestamp: 03:10:10

[materialsscienceandengineering]

Cell membrane biology inspires design of new saltwater filters

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute, King's College London and the University of Fribourg have developed polymer water channels, similar to commonly used plastics, that can draw salt out of water, inspired by the body's own water filtering system. If their innovation could be scaled up and produced industrially, this could help to filter seawater to create drinking water. Aquaporins are proteins that rapidly transport water across cell membranes while excluding salt. They are critical for maintaining the right balance of water inside and outside cells and for concentrating or diluting urine in the kidneys. In research published recently in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, an international team of researchers took inspiration from aquaporins to design artificial water channels that can be used to filter salt out of water.

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[saltcherrycat]

Кстати!..

[8ug8ear]

people bitching about dandadan seem to conveniently gloss over the fact that okarun was also sexually assaulted by turbo granny, but y'all don't wanna have that conversation

[anlian-aishang]

savor the taste

save the best bite for last

two fingers are enough

pain is the best punishment

i am UNWELL.

[royalreef]

(( Highly specific thing that I'm craving lately: an excuse for Miranda to show off that she can "spit" from her salt organ, which is basically just expelling highly condensed saline solution, alongside some of the lipids and proteins that make up the thick liquid solution around her eye, and that she can aim it with some force and accuracy. It's the way her body removes salt from her body (of which she has plenty need for, as a saltwater animal), but unfortunately, merfolk are smart enough to figure out that landfolk really don't like having what's nearly pure salt rubbed into their eyes at close range.

[scripturient1998]

Hey! I’m Mackenzie, and sometimes I write stuff, and sometimes it’s kind of good. At present I am working on the seventh book of an untitled series (working title is Davis, often shortened to DVS) which I am hoping to get people excited about!

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Hope I’ve piqued your interest! Feel free to ask me questions. :)

[funnywizard3000]

Been spenignding all my energy to integrate this soup into my corporeal form for 40 minutes.

[champagnemoon]

Bella might have gotten me with this one idk

[stylized-corpse]

Tonight!