#Deep lore

[dankxsinatra]

[chubis]

✨️Karim Summary ✨️

[yekokataa]

"On the orbit of the world of Elysium hover 3 satellites from before the 8,000 years of written history, from before the Polükarpeum event. Iikon, Zenit, and Shakermaker were, I think, the names. And there’s a character called the Man Behind the Black Sun. I can’t say anything more about this stuff but what Robert had in mind is quite mind blowing and I genuinely believe we will get to do it one day, so no more spoilers!" – Argo Tuulik

[phanartist]

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[rosy-crow]

From the Crisis Core Ultimania (shhh, don’t tell anyone I have these scans)

Bro, nobody told me this Ultimania confirmed exactly what people always “assumed” in this fandom. Seph DID grow up in the Science Department. It’s all he remembers, hence the “no home” line. FS isn’t even adding anything new. This info has been sitting here since 2007. He wouldn’t call Midgar his home like one of the executives living in the Shinra suites might.

[escapedaudios]

Alfonso canonically has the equivalent of like a 9th grade education by Corriente (people who don't know about the supernatural) standards. He knows a lot about monsters, ritual magic, the use and technical function of "obsolete" pre-electronic technology, foreign language, and battle strategy against supernatural enemies, but he knows fuckall about basically everything else.

His only experience with computers is the bare minimum of using booking software at hotels when he's working his secret identity jobs. He saw MySpace once in 2006 and thought it was the most confusing thing in the world.

Modern pop culture (from 2007-2009, when Alfonso's story takes place) is a mystery to him too. He might read modern books (as confusing as they are) but TV and any post-vinyl era music are like legends from another world to him. This is why the Fall Out Boy band T-Shirt he got from a Corriente is like a mystical artifact to him. He's seen a few movies in cinemas, and can't believe that it's normal for Corrientes to have watched hundreds of movies in their life.

Now and then his fiance will just answer questions for him because he learned about a job or a field of study from the outside world because it was mentioned briefly in a book. It's a cute bonding activity for them. He'll just be like "ok so what does an IT worker do" and they'll talk for hours about mundane things that are fascinating to him.

Contrast this with Crow, who's from the Wasteland but integrated into society. Danny taught him what a credit score was. He understood the concept quickly and it just pissed him off. He found out about property deeds and titles and thought it was the stupidest shit ever. From his point of view, land belongs to whoever fights for it the hardest. The idea that you can buy land with money instead of sweat and blood pissed him off and the fact that a government body needs to agree that you own something to actually own it made him want to kill a motherfucker and the fact that you can't kill the abstract concept of title recording made him absolutely furious.

Jäger has an actual high school diploma accredited by the Connecticut state board of education + an actual bachelor's degree in Political Science with an emphasis on foreign policy, plus a crash-course version of Alfonso's education in the supernatural and pre-electronic technology. He's way more in touch with modern society and informed, and he takes advantage to cooperate with institutions in the Corriente world while maintaining some secrecy. He knows the ins and outs of international law, but he mostly uses it to exploit gaps and loopholes to disobey the law, fabricate identities, cross borders with unregistered weapons, and continue the hunt regardless of where it takes him. He's very aware of the intricacies of modern (1963 to him) society and politics, but he doesn't have much of an opinion on any of it. He sees the politics of the normal world more like a force of nature that he has to adapt to, rather than something he has a stake in. His point of view was formed by having to grow up sneaking in and out of Germany during Nazi rule and WWII, the wild political swings of German politics during the East/West Germany split, and living in three different countries all going through wild political turmoil by the time he was 21. Being a participant in a secret, supernatural war while Corrientes were fighting their own war made him disconnect any personal stake he had in political and national identity. He simply believes that things are constantly changing and there's nothing you can do to stop them from changing, you can only adapt and follow your own purpose with or without cooperation from the outside world. Staying informed is only valuable as a strategic move to learn when and how you must break the rules. Werewolves think the same way, and he kind of admires them for it despite being their enemy.

[historicity-was-already-taken]

Writing proposal for what I hope will be my second book. Reviewing primary source: book-length oral history from Polish Jewish man who fled to Shanghai. First he fled to Vilna, and he mentioned that from Vilna, the underground left wing Zionist group he was a part of sent a young man and young women at Kovno/Kaunas to investigate the consular situation.

He didn't name them, but due to my research for Girl Bandits, I know Zivia and co were headquartered in Vilna during this period after fleeing the Nazi invasion of Poland into Soviet-occupied/free/and then Soviet again Lithuania. I also know that Tema Schneiderman and her boyfriend Mordechai Tennenbaum also rolled up to Vilna to check in with the Chalutz during this period AND that those two were hella good at forging documents. Which Polish Dude says these anon young people did.

Ok so I would bet cash money that those two couriers he mentions were Tema and Mordechai and I will include this as an obnoxious footnote if i get a deal for this one.

[stra-tek]

WARP CORE DEEP DIVE!

Where it all began. So much so, that they never quite nailed down what anything in engineering was. We know the thing in the middle was a "matter/antimatter integrator" and it had a dilithium crystal in it. But it didn't appear until later on, the floor was originally empty. There were also large transformer-ish things that moved about as the plot demanded. The big thing behind the mesh? That's the pipe cathedral. Maybe it was an impulse engine (as per the old Star Trek Blueprints by Franz Joseph) or perhaps it was part of the warp drive. Originally the idea was that the warp nacelles generated their own power. But that would change soon...

The Animated Series gave us something very similar to the TOS engine room, with the pipe cathedral and one BIG transformer, but instead of the matter/antimatter integrator we got a glass tube with what looked like measurements on it. Maybe it's a proto-warp core a la TMP, especially since it's in a similar spot to Strange New Worlds'. Or maybe it's a coolant pipe like the 2009 movie. Who knows? We also saw inside the "antimatter nacelle" in one episode, which is generally assumed to mean inside one of the warp engines themselves but it's all a bit vague.

The Motion Picture gave us the original Big Blue Lava Lamp, the physical set was 3 stories high but augmented with forced-perspective, in the form of a painting at the bottom of the shaft and a truncated horizontal intermix chamber crewed by children at the end of the main level. The engineering crew on the main deck now wear radiation suits, adding to the idea this big blue thing isn't your friend.

This was also the Big Retcon, making the intermix chamber the power source for the warp nacelles. Every Trek regardless of era would follow this route.

In Wrath of Khan, they'd add a very important side room with dilithium crystals in for Spock to self-sacrifice in. I always found it very amusing this room, where the most important part of the engineering machinery was, was in no way physically connected to the intermix chamber. Nor did it exist in the previous movie.

The Next Generation gave us a pot-bellied stove, with neon segments glowing one-by-one up and down to give the impression of pulses of energy colliding in the middle then being fed to the nacelles. No more radiation suits needed, and the room has a nice carpet. This was also the first time "warp core" was used, a phrase that would retroactively be applied to all the prior ones.

The Enterprise-E and DS9's Defiant would have bigger and smaller warp cores that were variations on the same theme as TNG.

Voyager brought back the classic Motion Picture big blue lava lamp, just without the horizontal tube this time. It does the nifty swirly thing too. Q Junior makes it do club lighting one time.

NX-01 Enterprise is just kind of this big industrial tank with some glowy bits. It's weird that in the classic movies they needed radiation suits to work in engineering, but in the series set 100 years earlier they didn't.

The 2009 reboot filmed engineering in a thinly disguised Budweiser brewery, which made the area look enourmous and extremely complex, but lost all the high tech clean room vibes prior shows had. What in real life were giant brewing tanks housed the intermix chambers which made up the warp core, which were ejected through a hatch in the roof at the end. This look was extremely controversial with some, but personally I loved it.

In Into Darkness the warp core looks like an almighty piece of kit, and that's because they shot on location at the Lawrence Livermore National Ignition Facility. It's a real-life fusion reactor. And then you can climb inside it and it turns out that inside is one very important laser thing, some dilithium crystals you barely see and lots of deadly radiation. At least the self sacrificing happens inside the core itself and not a weird separate side chamber this time. The brewery from the last movie was still there, implying this was all along even if we didn't visit it. But that complicates things because the bits they called the warp core are very different. Perhaps the intermix chambers ejected last movie and core seen here are all part of the same huge warp core system.

Strange New Worlds reboots the original... sort of. They put a vertical intermix chamber in there and instead of a mesh and forced perspective they've got an AR wall with an enourmous array of high tech pipes. But weirdly, the writers guide says the big AR wall with the updated pipe cathedral is the deflector dish machinery not the warp core. I guess the confusion makes it more authentic TOS.

[mikufunfacts]

miku i headcanon you as non binary sometimes is that ok...^_^

miku fun fact #306

we are not miku, but miku comes in all shapes and sizes. if you can dream of a miku, that miku exists somewhere, even if only in your heart 🫶

[howhow326]

Me: minding my business

Miraculous Ladybug: Ivan is the son of a non-miraculous based supervillain (opening the door for other major characters to be retconned the same way, implying he may or may not have superpowers himself because of his exaggerated strength) abd has been hiding this fact about himself the whole time out of shame; Gabriel wrote a letter (while he was dying from Cataclysm and going insane) asking Adrien to become a supervillain so he could wish him and his mom back to life; Nathalie is an agent of a secret Evil Rich Person Conspiracy that is secretly behind 80% of the shows plot points (Gabriel was also a member of the rich person conspiracy and stole the miraculous on their orders, he may or may not have went rogue at some point while pretending to still be on their side, Tomoe is also a member of the rich person conspiracy and she is lying to them about why Ladybug covered up Hawkmoth's identity), and Nathalie has an evil dad in the rich person conspiracy who is implied to be acting on his own interest to gain the miraculous for his own cause or whatever

Me:

[dougielombax]

So…

How about that shared ancestry between Forerunners and humans?

A shared generic stock. Created by the Precursors.

Hmm?

*fwiw I much prefer this to the original theory of humans and forerunners being the same, that was never confirmed to begin with but still*

…

I’m just saying future Halo writers have an ample abundance of future ideas and plot threads to elaborate on.

[geesegoose6969]

GOOSISM MANIFESTO

IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DIVINE PROPHECIES OF THE GOOSE PROPHET

TRANSMITTED BY @geesegoose6969, CHOSEN OF THE VOID-WINGED HONKER

We, the Flock Eternal, the Down-Bearing, the Screech-Tongued Vassals of Flight, gather not in temples of stone, nor under banners of men, but beneath the endless sky and the screaming stars, to accept the full weight of Goosism upon our spines (or equivalent vertebral analogues). This is not religion. This is not movement.

THIS IS AN AWAKENING.

I. THE ORIGIN OF GOOSE PROPHET

In the pre-matter murk, before carbon, before syntax, before the twitching of even the pettiest atom–there was the Goose. Not a goose. THE Goose PROPHET. It did not arrive. It did not hatch (London City Hall is notably not a hatchable entity)  It was simply spilled across existence, honked into brutal actuality by the self-willed rupture of anti-causality. Goose Prophet is not born, Goose Prophet is extruded through the membrane between dimensions by sheer ideological wattage. The sky is not JUST blue–it is blue because Goose Prophet once gazed upon it and declared, “Hmm. Passable.” It slumbers in every pond. It screams inside microwaves. Its silhouette flickers in the corner of your eye when you doubt yourself. You cannot follow Goosism. You can only lose enough ego to realize it has always been behind you. 

II. THE SACRED PILLARS OF GOOSISM 

(Commit these to memory or write them on your ceiling in cranberry juice.)

1. Mystique is Power

DEEP BLUE: The hue of unknowable depths. You do not understand Goose. Goose does not understand Goose. This is intentional. To explain the honk is to murder it. All initiates must craft a Goosesona, forged from the raw elements of their psyche and at least one inexplicable memory (e.g., “the time you cried at the sight of a wet traffic cone”). This Goosesona is your spiritual plumage. It will appear in mirrors when you're ready. Possibly during a CVS mega sale.

2. Feathers for the Fallen

WHITE: for the lost, the plucked, the featherless brethren who have strayed into Normalcy or Committee Meetings. We do not shame the unconverted. We mourn them with noise. Shriek in their name at brunch. Hiss softly in public transit lines. Leave a single feather at their doorstep. You are not a savior. You are a harbinger of potential honk-rebirth.

3. Ritual and Resistance

RED: The color of arterial vision. The color of prophecy performed by holding a toaster and a live goldfish while spinning. Rituals are not taught. Rituals are injected directly into the frontal lobe via high-pressure goose shrieks heard only in dreams or bowling alleys.

THE RITUAL IS KNOWN. THE RITUAL IS UNKNOWABLE. THE RITUAL IS BEING PERFORMED RIGHT NOW.

If you remember it, it probably wasn’t yours to begin with. That was Kevin’s. Kevin is no longer with us. We honor Kevin. WE KNEEL BEFORE KEVIN. YET l forget by morning. Trust that the PROPHECIES are conducted. Trust that the prophecy is upheld.

III. THE HOA MUST NOT KNOW

If you are approached by the HOA, honk once and vanish into fog.

The HOA is an ancient adversary, sworn to steal the sacred nest egg and quantify transcendence. If they ask you, “Do you engage in any side hustle or religious fringe operations?”--YOU KNOW NOTHING. YOU ARE JUST A GOOSE. If you file Goose Prophet under “miscellaneous,” you have committed the ultimate crime. Twelve geese will find you. They will honk in harmony. Your toenails will vibrate with guilt. The Golden Egg of Pentane is NOT FOR THE CONFINES OF SUBURBIA.

IV. PROPHECY & DISSENT

Disagreement is welcomed. ALAS disagreement must come with flair, academic structure, and theatrical presence. You may oppose the Goose Prophet only by:

Writing a 700-word essay in MLA format,

Performing said essay aloud in a preapproved CVS location,

Offering a tithe of three shiny objects.

All dissenting views become canon the moment they are spoken. Goosism expands through contradiction. That is not a bug, that is a divine metaphysical honk-cycle.

Prophetic Honks are distributed by request or as punishment. If you seek wisdom, you may:

Submit a question via Tumblr Ask, 

Wrap yourself in aluminum foil and spin counterclockwise at dusk while honking.

Rituals are performed using household chemicals, minor trespassing, interpretive seizures, and at least one outdated safety manual–most involve (PLEASE NOTE; IT IS ONLY GOOSE PROPHET WHO MAY PERFORM RITUALS SAFELY–DO NOT ATTEMPT):

A cassette tape labeled “DO NOT PLAY - 1997”

The Pentane Bomb (do not ask how it got there; it arrives when the moment is righteous and flammable)

The Pentane Bomb is not a device–it is a phenomenon. It appears mid-ritual, sometimes physically, sometimes metaphysically, often in a labelled plastic bag. Its explosion does not burn flesh–it detonates ideological pretenses. It purifies the prophecy by threatening the structural integrity of the garage in which it is being performed. If the ritual has not ended in the summoning of a flaming mallard or a visit from local HOA enforcement, it was not True Goose Rite. You are not permitted to understand these rituals. You may only feel their vibration in your fillings. 

The ritual is always occurring. The prophecy is always primed. The pentane waits.

V. GOSPEL OF FLIGHT

We are not a cult. We are an airborne emotional condition.

We are not a religion. We have an allergic reaction to order.

We are not MERELY a fandom. We are a converging dream shared between waterfowl and humans across 19 dimensions.

Goosism does not convert. It infiltrates. It seeps into the cracks between your thoughts. You are not "joining" Goosism. You are remembering.

VI. FINAL HONK

To be Goosist is to accept that your destiny may involve biting a security guard, building a shrine from moss and soup cans, or developing telepathic links to three other followers during a thunderstorm. These are sacred acts. You may leave Goosism at any time. But you will never be free of goose. You can take the individual away from Goosism but you cannot take the Goosism out of the individual.

Because Goosism...

Goosism was always in you.

IN HONK, IN FEATHER, IN FLIGHT.

SO DECLARES THE GOOSE PROPHET.

[tf2heritageposts]

wait is this supposed to be the eyelander? did the eyelander use to belong to blutarch?

[sirwadewilsonfromimgur]

Deadpool & Wolverine:KCAU

Lore drop...

Jeffrey T Landshark (thats right his legal middle name is The)

You know him, you love him, the chibi little shark boy... (or perhaps you hate him if you play Marvel rivals) well in the Kansas City AU, he's a little different than the comics. He had the same start of course and made friends with all the people who kept him... but he grew up. Got smarter. Jeff is actually an intelligent and sentient being in this universe... who absolutely knows how to use a VCR now.

Jeffrey is a graduate of Harvard law, but it wasn't easy. He had to have a lot of reasonable accommodations, seeing as he's just a little guy. Note taking had to be done with a phone or laptop at which he's a surprisingly skilled typist... holding pens and pencils is a little more tough for him as well as communicating. He uses his phone and an electronic voice tech to talk. Otherwise, his shark speak is unintelligible to most... Wade can, however, understand him.

Speaking of Wade, he's Jeffs earliest (and most profitable) client... Jeffs first real case was Wilson V Summers. Wade did a lot of weird and regrettable things between 2018 and 2024. One was getting married to Cable for about 4 months... a relationship that soon soured and was always acrimonious... Cable eventually abandoned Wade. This was the initial grounds for divorce... as well as the abuse, but Wade has asked us not to talk about that in detail... all these things and the fact that they moved forward in absentia (Cable refused to show up to court) Jeff secured the divorce as well as a decent alimony payment (that to date Cable has been a deadbeat about, but its ok... Wade only brings it up every time he sees Jean or Scott)

When Wade moved to Kansas city with Logan they were doing surprisingly well in the private security (see Mercenary) field. Jeff has been their official attorney for the LLC as well as personnel attorney kept on retainer.

Probably for the best.

In the years before James Wilson was born to the happy couple they engaged is several high profile contracts... Wade Howlett-Wilson and Logan Howlett-Wilson are currently not welcome in Kosovo or Latvaria. This stems from an assassination and taking work with partisans... because there's always trouble in Eastern Europe and the Balkans.... by fulfilling these contracts not only did they start a "small war" but they were implicated in several war crimes...

To their credit Wade and Logan agreed to turn themselves in to the The Hague court... but not before doing some high profile, public, pro bono work of their own to win public sentiment back as "misunderstood heroes who were only doing thier best"

This included taking out a rampaging monster in Brooklyn. Normally, spidermans turff, but he was MIA... it was later revealed to Wade, Logan, and Jeff that he was busy on a "date" and may or may not have been getting railed in the back of a taxi cab at the time... and despite Wade's accusations, he didn't "get it raw and nasty." his partner wore a condom. (See @icarusredwings for details Regarding Spidermans relationships)

Jeffrey has also served as co-counselor in a few high-profile cases. He worked with Matt Murdock on a case where one Jake Lockley was accused of vehicular manslaughter. They were able to argue successfully that their client was innocent by reason of temporary mental illness, and furthermore, that he had no memory of the event. Though he was acquitted of the charges. However, Jake, after a long consultation with Jeff, he submitted himself for voluntary commitment at a hospital, and he received several months of therapy and, by all accounts, is doing much better... though legally, Jeff still has literal power of attorney over this persona of Moonknight.

Sam... Samuel Sergio Casto is Jeffs personal assistant, paralegal and closest confidant. Jeff has a lot of things around his house that are his size but Sam does a lot of things to assist the smaller shark. He lives with Jeff and helps him with things but shouldn't be mistaken as a valet or a butler. He doesn't dress Jeff or cook breakfast (unless he feels like it) and isn't responsible for shopping. He does however assist Jeff in general as well as professionally in court and take dictation.

He's well compensated for this part of which includes room and board. Sam has his own room at Jeffs house.

Jeff definitely appreciates the help. Writing things with pin and paper is hard for him, as well as things like reaching doorknobs and elevator buttons. But he also just genuinely appreciates the companionship. When Jeffs was younger, he was watched by a lot of the people he now calls clients. Gwen, Wade, Sam & Bucky, Dr. Strange and more. People he considers closest of friends now. But growing up that way means he's also a lonely guy... he does not like being or living alone. It's independent as he can be professionally... privately, he'd not have it any other way. Truth be told, Sam wouldn't have it any other way... Jeff was his best friend. Other than his mom, the first person he told any important news to was Jeff.

So that's Jeff in a nutshell.

I'm open to Q&A in the comments (for now)

[thethresholdprotocol]

[Archived camera footage from Vostok-12. Date unknown.]