#Gene Editing and Consciousness

[elbiotipo]

In 99% of hypotheticals, human genetic engineering is just eugenics, but I really hope that there is a version of it in the future that isn't genocidal and that allows people to have things like tails and 4-cone vision and other senses from other animals that we don't have (infrared sensing from snakes, magnetic field sensing from some pigeon species, echolocation from bats or some cetaceans, electrosense from sharks, etc)

Most (popular) takes on biotechnology are dystopic or with the undertone (or overtone) that biotechnology is inmoral or gross or contra-nature. I do oppose eugenics because it's... eugenics, not because it's "anti-natural" or the technology itself. Eugenics on itself constitutes a violation of human rights. That's a topic for another discussion.

But regarding voluntary human modification, most current ideas of genetic modification involve editing embryos which is something questionable in a lot of ways. Instead I believe that, much like cloning and manufacturing organs might be reality in a future, you could also design new organs and implant them in adult humans.

This is the path that I take in my own biopunk setting. Melanie, for example, wasn't born as a catgirl, she decided to have those implants herself. In the setting, this is considered as commonplace as getting tattoos or piercings.

What is really interesting in this sense is how humans would adapt to implanted biological parts. Given experiments with bionic prothesis, it is found that many people quickly adapt to it and consider them part of their bodies. Same with organ transplants. But what about what you asked about, completely new senses? Could the human brain adapt to an electric or electromagnetic sense? Some people have already experimented with this:

I would love to do more research into specifics for this ask, as human genetic and body modification can cover anything from gene therapy to these expressions.

But of course they are all shaped by the material reality of society. It is true that only rich or well-off people would be able to afford the technology consciously modify their bodies. Most science fiction that approaches this assumes this will remain the case and will turn out into class dystopia. What much science fiction does not approach is the fact that class struggle exists, and society can be changed. What happens when these technologies are available in a socialist or classless society?

Maybe we won't have to wait too long to find out, either.

[shentheauthor]

I be like “I’m normal” and then I look like this while thinking about. Vessel biology

Some thoughts:

Some vessels have lungs, some do not. My headcanon is that Wyrms have lungs, so naturally, that will be passed down to any Wyrm children. Half-Wyrms are confusing, especially since there are so few, and Wyrm genes are displayed differently depending on what bug they’re combined with

The White Lady is a fungus, and I stand by that. Meaning she “breathes” through her gills and pores! It’s passive, so she doesn’t make any noises when she breathes. She doesn’t even have a mouth, since she’s just a cluster of mycelium that the majority of her consciousness is crammed into

So, some vessels have lungs! Some breathe through their void body! All of this is incredibly weird to bugs, who don’t have lungs, but breathe through little holes in their sides! Freaks of nature, the vessels

It might be easier to list potential traits I think vessels can have. There may be a combination of these

Wings (flight-incapable)

Wings (flight-capable)

Tails

Burrowing teeth

Mycelium hyphae

Lungs

Pores/gills

Spores!

Mouths

No mouth

Hard shell

“Skin” (closer to just a bag holding the void body together)

Infertility (the majority of vessels have this trait)

PK’s cold, harsh light

WL’s softer, but more expansive light

Ability to digest rocks and metal

Nutritional needs: minerals, inorganics

Nutritional needs: organics

Poor eyesight

Albinism (PK)

Weak bodies (compared to other higher beings, also from PK)

Horns

Mushroom sprouts

There’s definitely more, but I generally stick to these when trying to come up with various mix-and-match traits for vessel ocs, as well as canon vessels

Edit for those who don’t feel like looking at the comments: Hornet has lungs!

[cenorii]

Theory about Chris and Wesker (RE9) [UPDATED]

Hey Tumblr, today I brought you two crazy theories. I promise you that my theories will be very interesting and will make you think about something.

Alive Wesker, BOW Chris. Actual until re9 release!

This is an updated theory, I have supplemented and edited it!

I kept them inside my head for a long time, but coming of RE9 pushes me to release these theories outside. I really love Chriskers, so these two theories are directly related to them. This is not AU, but my assumptions about the canon. I would like to warn you that English is not my native language, so there may be errors in the text, excuse me for that.

Theory about Chris

What could be his immediate future?

We already know that in Shadows of Rose (DLC for RE8) the year is 2037 and at this point Chris is still alive. So it's safe to say that after the events of RE9, which will take place in 2021, he will still be alive. He will not die, contrary to fan theories.

At the very end of RE8, Chris discovers a BSAA soldier who turns out to be a bioweapon (I'll write BOW in the future). Enraged by this brazenness, Chris goes to their headquarters to sort it all out. This will probably be the main idea behind RE9.

Below is a concept of this BOW:

I can assume that this is not an single specimen, and that all the other BSAA soldiers involved in the "village operation" look identical. That is, they are clones.

Cloning BOW is a common thing in their world, clones of Sergei Vladimir were used to develop a strain of the T-virus back in 1992, and created even earlier, so it's no surprise that someone in 2021 used the cloning method.

These BOW soldiers have a consciousness and "upbringing" close to human, because they use weapons and transportation. And judging by their calm facial expressions, they don't show aggression. They can act coherently as a team, which suggests that these BOW are not a brainless herd of armed Majini (RE5), or J'avo (RE6). Their brains must be very advanced and almost unaffected by mutations.

But now let's remember that there was already a project that aimed to create the perfect soldier with an evolved brain. That was Project Tyrant.

I brought up the topic that these BOW soldiers are clones. But whose? Some person with genes suitable for the virus should be taken as a basis. But who could be the donor in this case and have we had any information about this? I have an answer to that question.

This is Chris Redfield. At first, the similarities are barely obvious, but take a closer look at the facial features. The shape of the nose, lips, wrinkles around the eyes, a mole under the eye.

And now look at the gait. This pose is identical to the typical walking of any Tyrant.

BSAA, without his knowledge, used his DNA to create these BOW soldiers.

We can say that this BOW weapon is the most advanced version of the Tyrant, because it is indistinguishable from a human, has high intelligence and is well controlled. And it is also easily disposed of, because after the death of BOW, the soldier did not mutate into a Super Tyrant.

It may not be a Tyrant, but some new project. But the data on the Tyrant clearly formed its basis.

There are legitimate questions - why Chris? Who needs it?

Answer to question 1: Chris is a soldier with a lot of experience and the ability to survive in the most dangerous situations. He is psychologically prepared for anything. If by happy coincidence such a person is genetically suited to be the new version of BOW, then this can be exploited, for it saves "real" human lives in military operations. But that doesn't excuse the BSAA, for they took his DNA without authorization.

Answer to question 2: to guess who needs it, you just need to know Chris's environment. For whom is Chris "one of the best men"? For whom is Chris the only equal opponent? Who does Chris mean so much to that this person would want to subdue him?

I think you've already guessed.

Albert Wesker.

But you ask the logical question, "how could Wesker pull this off if he died in 2009?"

The answer is, he didn't. The theory of how he survived will be below, but for now I'll tell you his motives.

After the defeat, which came hard due to his injuries and overdose of the virus, Wesker decided to poison Chris's life. His own life was wiped out in that volcano, the results of all his research and experiments gone to waste. All of Wesker's plans are ruined by this man, as many times before, he is humiliated and revenge boils in him.

Somehow he has infiltrated the heart of BSAA, of those Chris trusted. Into Chris's "home." And he poisoned that home with a biological weapon. There may well have been some other reason for this, perhaps he had a new plan and "poisoning Chris's life" was just a nice addition to that plan, but not the main goal.

Here is a variant of the main goal:

New Mold was created by The Connections, an organization that partnered with H.C.F. back in 2000. H.C.F. is a unit that Wesker once led. It's unknown if he was involved in the creation of the Mold, but it's safe to assume he was aware of it. This could be the reason BOW were sent BSAA soldiers into the village in RE8 to destroy everything The Connections had a hand in. Perhaps Wesker just wanted to get rid of anything "useless" that might get in his way in the future. A distant future. Because it's been 12 years since his "death" and he's 61 years old himself.

But why is Mold "useless" to him, you ask? Weskers in "Project W" were raised according to Spencer's ideals, so in many ways they think like him, because the upbringing was sufficiently obsessive. And here's what Spencer himself thought of Mold:

Mold is useless to Spencer, so is useless to any of the Weskers who share his thinking.

There's no denying the possibility that Wesker may have been thinking about turning Chris into something for a long time, since he was highly successful as a soldier. He likes to "rate" Chris during their encounters. What if he was evaluating Chris to weigh the pros and cons if he suddenly decided to create something based on him? A BOW based on him? It's also possible that Wesker always spared Chris because he thought he would use him in the future. Other reasons are just excuses.

I can only decipher these Wesker facial expressions as "hmm, not bad"

I assume that in RE9 Chris will meet Wesker. But not the way he remembers him.

I forgot to mention that behind the scenes, Wesker was working on experimental weapons. He had studied various tactics to fight against the BOW and felt that weapons of mass destruction were not always effective, so he favored compact pieces that could be used by experienced fighters. It's unclear why Wesker even considered such a thing if he didn't intend to sell these developments. It's also unclear why he was working on it if his ultimate goal was a "perfect world" with no place for guns and wars. Did he come up with it… just because he could? In any case, after his death, these designs were confiscated by the reconstituted Umbrella Co. (Blue Umbrella) and after being reconstituted, distributed these weapons to various places like the BSAA.

Given the Chris cloning moment, doesn't it seem suspicious that the suddenly revived Umbrella is in the process of recreating Wesker's designs? I get that this weapon is very useful, but then why did they name it after Wesker if he's a "disgrace" to society and a criminal? He, in theory, deserves no mention, even on his designs. But someone in management has respect for him, so allowed the name to remain.

It's also odd that BSAA have taken up cloning, it's more likely the new Umbrella is the originator of this idea, or their executive (leader) who respects Wesker and his designs. Perhaps cloning Chris is one of his designs too?

I mean… literally - it's a clone of Chris with a Wesker gun. This is a very strange coincidence.

Theory about Wesker 1. Why isn't he dead?

Let's start simple, RE5 had enough budget to show the ignition effects, we could see them on the enemies set on fire. And RE5 also had enough budget to show colorfully directed cutscenes.

However, with the franchise's most famous character, we saw neither of these at the moment of his death. Wesker was waist-deep in lava, but not burning, and was also defeated without any cutscenes. A strange attitude with such popularity?

His death was not shown, a basic but not the main fact that makes me sure he survived.

All we can see are the missiles that fly past his head, failing to hit their target, they fall into the lava behind him. If you slow down the video, it's noticeable that for some reason the model of Wesker's head just disappears and the missiles fly right through. This is not done to show that he lost his head, because otherwise the missiles would have exploded in the area around his face. However, the missiles flew behind him. It's a trivial budget saving to not draw the moment of impact. But the question is, why save money in such an important scene for lore?

Character deaths aren't shown only when they want them back. If a character dies permanently, their death is always detailed and elaborate.

Capcom could have done this to avoid expending the effort and expense for a colorful scene that ends up being just a trickery for us, so that there would be a realistic opportunity to re-engage Wesker as an main character in the future.

 And now pay attention to how Alex Wesker's death was shown:

Her death is final, that's why it's so detailed. Her current consciousness is now in another new body (Natalia), so it's not a pity to get rid of the old one.

Now let's talk about burning. The reason Wesker doesn't have a fire effect in Volcano could mean that his clothes are fireproof. Which, by the way, could be true, because on his concept art it says the material should be able to withstand shrapnel and other little shards. Its appearance and properties are reminiscent of modern carbon fiber, which can withstand about 300-370°C in air, while the temperature of lava in a volcano is from 1000°C to 1200°C. This means that his clothes could not ignite, because carbon fiber only oxidizes from high heat. This material could also be Kevlar, which has a temperature limit of 480°C, at which point it begins to decompose.

However, not only his clothes could have partially saved him from the high temperature, Wesker himself is resistant to it, which cannot be said about the Uroboros, for whom fire is a weak point. Therefore, it is logical to assume that the virus vaporized from his body from the high ambient temperature.

But let's get to the point, the fact that Wesker was flooded with lava after the explosion of missiles does not mean that he died, because it is worth paying attention to the fact that he was already set on fire. It certainly doesn't compare to lava, but it does give us some indication that he has fire resistance.

Judging by this point, Wesker can be set on fire, but those burns don't harm him. He also doesn't care about the fire and explosions around him.

He also just needs to shake the fire off himself, which doesn't do any damage.

There is a hint that he survived. I think few people have heard about Umbrella Corps. This failed shooter, seemingly having nothing important for the Resident Evil universe, gave us quite important information. Now I will tell you about it in detail. But keep in mind that this game is canon. The protagonist here is a certain 3A-7.

 The actions of this game take place first in 2012-2013 (single-player mode), and then in 2016 (multiplayer mode). That is, AFTER the events of RE6.

 In 2012-2013, according to the plot, information appears about a certain "man from the high ranks in the organization", who arrived to observe the experiment. In the course of the plot, notes about this person are supplemented with information that "this mysterious boss" was present during the events of RE4 and survived them. And as we know, only two men survived RE4 – Leon and Wesker.

After that, one of the acting characters becomes very interested in "this mysterious man", because "this mysterious man" seems trying to make a show of his own strength. This person finds it suspicious and wants to find DNA data about this "mysterious boss". He even wonders, "Who is this guy? Why is everyone afraid of him?".

I think after that it becomes obvious about "what a terrifying and mysterious person" we are talking about. About Wesker.

While playing in multiplayer mode, there is a chance to catch Wesker's phrase at the end of the match. They are different and there are quite a lot of them.

Here is an example:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe7LEaA7em8

 At the end of the game, it says that there are "plans" for the main character of this game. By the way, the main character is voiced by D. C. Douglas, same with Wesker. Wesker watched the experiment on his clone? Sounds interesting, unless, of course, he is a clone himself.

So now it's time for my theories on how Umbrella Corps can be explained:

3A-7 is a clone of Wesker, who trivially doesn't know about it and is an ordinary person with a meager set of memories. But he has retained the skills of the original, making him a high survivor. And the powerful man who kept 3A-7's DNA secret is the original Wesker. He placed his clone in this experiment to quickly test it in real danger, and after success he took it back to realize plans unknown to us. In favor of this theory is the fact that in multiplayer, Douglas' tone is a copy of Wesker's, even though he voiced 3A-7 differently. Capcom wouldn't have hired Douglas to voice two characters at once if their voices weren't potentially important to the lore. The fact that no one recognized Wesker could suggest that his appearance was badly damaged after the volcano, or he changed a lot with the onset of old age, but 3A-7 is probably a copy of his youthful appearance, so he's hiding it.

3A-7 is a clone of Wesker, but after 3A-7 was taken away at the end of his story, he rose through the ranks of the organization and it is his lines that we hear in the multiplayer, because they are said several years after the events of the game. So these are not the phrases of the original Wesker, but of the changed 3A-7 from the future. The original Wesker is presumably dead, but in that case I can't speculate who the influential person who was interested in 3A-7 might be, if not him. Nikolai Zinoviev, who survived RE3? The real Hunk? It could be anyone with cold-blooded cruelty and strange goals. Also, the question remains, who created 3A-7? If it was Wesker himself, he would have used it for his plans long ago, and if it was an abandoned project, it would have been scrapped. It was done by someone outside who needs Wesker's skills badly, just like Chris' skills, which is the reason the RE8 BSAA created a BOW based on him. Ah, I wish someone would get Chris and Wesker clones to work as a team…

So, let's keep going.

One more important thing - if Wesker had died, he would have been seriously mutated. Think of all the characters who have ever had a virus injected into their body. Upon death or when seriously injured, those characters mutated uncontrollably. The same thing happened to Alex Wesker and to Carla Radames. If Wesker died in a volcano, some creature would crawled out of there. Remember when Nemesis was dissolved in acid and then turned into a huge mess. Lava might be as good a vehicle for mutations as acid is for Nemesis. If Wesker didn't mutate, that's another confirmation that he's not dead.

There is a theory that Wesker didn't become a huge monster due to his body adapting to any virus. But I can argue… I believe that after the injection his condition was unstable + a huge amount of Uroboros in his body. All of this should have set the stage for mutation, but the mutation never happened.

Theory about Wesker 2

Now it's time for real madness. In RE5 in vulcano, we killed a Wesker clone. In general, throughout the game in RE5, we fought with his clone. We could meet the real Wesker only in the DLC "Lost in Nightmares". And now I will explain why.

 The events of "Lost in Nightmares" take place in 2006, 2 years before the events of RE5. In this DLC, we have the opportunity to fight Wesker, who poses a great threat. One of his blows is able to throw the player into the wall and stun, and he also has several different ways to kill the player. He's constantly trying to kill us. Instead of walking, he moves exclusively with the help of "blink". This is the most ordinary Wesker, as dangerous and unpredictable as ever.

Then we meet Wesker in 2009 during the RE5 events. This famous scene, which gave us the quote "seven minutes", must be the most harmless confrontation with him. A child's fight. Here Wesker, to put it mildly, lost his strength. He prefers to follow us instead of "blink". He trying to "show off" in front of Chris and Sheva. It is very easy to deceive him, and his blows do not cause much damage. Instead of throwing the player into the wall and stunning him, Wesker's blow pushes him away only a few meters. At the same time, here he does not have an attack that can kill the player. Is he playing with us? Alright.

Finally we meet Wesker in our last fight with him (before the volcano). He shouldn't be playing with us here, he's serious. But he's no different from Wesker from the last fight... he just doesn't have any "showing off" animations. But he is still weak and does not carry danger. He had an attack that Wesker had from "Lost in Nightmares", capable of piercing and thereby killing a player with a full health indicator. But otherwise he is not dangerous. I don't feel threatened by this Wesker, even though this is the LAST fight with him! This is his LAST chance to shine in front of Chris! But instead of being as cool as in "Lost in Nightmares", he's just a weak. Walking simulator.

 How much Wesker from 2006 differs from himself from 2009 makes you think. Let's think deeper.

 When Wesker kills Spencer, he mimics the old man. It may seem that he really wanted to become a God, but if you don't think about RE5, it really can be mistaken for an ordinary mimicry. Wesker wanted to humiliate him at any cost, because the most important and unpleasant secret of his life had just been revealed to him – he was fabricated. This Wesker is real and he falls off a cliff with Jill and saves her.

During the experiments on Jill, he starts working on some related project and realizes that it will take a very long time. Therefore, he creates his own clone (or maybe even several) to replace himself. And he also "hands" his clone a wild Jill with P30 in the blood, after all, the Wesker clone is clearly weaker than the original and he needs "support". Of course, the Wesker clone does not know that he is a clone, and continues to develop the idea of "becoming a God." He's a defective clone, and that's why he's so paranoid about this idea. In the end, this "clone" loses his mind and becomes fixated on the idea of "becoming a God" and everything that he had from the real Wesker in character simply evaporates. He becomes a laughing stock, macaroni monster.

And eventually Chris and Sheva kill him, ridding the world of a useless Wesker clone while the real one is alive and just hiding somewhere.

Think for yourself which theory about Wesker seems more plausible to you, anything can happen in this fandom. I really want to know WHO made BOW Chris and WHY.

Thanks for reading this madness, it will become irrelevant after the release of RE9 and RE5R, but I'm still proud of the information I've gathered. What if some of this guessed the canon? We'll find out in the future.

[kingme1002]

RADICAL LIFE EXTENSION:

### Key Areas of Research and Approaches:

1. **Genetic Engineering**:

- **CRISPR and Gene Editing**: Technologies like CRISPR-Cas9 allow scientists to modify genes associated with aging and age-related diseases. By editing or repairing genes, it may be possible to slow down or reverse aging processes.

- **Telomere Extension**: Telomeres are protective caps at the ends of chromosomes that shorten with age. Research is exploring ways to extend or maintain telomere length to delay cellular aging.

2. **Senescence and Cellular Repair**:

- **Senolytics**: These are drugs designed to selectively eliminate senescent cells, which accumulate with age and contribute to tissue dysfunction and chronic diseases. Removing these cells can improve health and extend lifespan.

- **Stem Cell Therapy**: Stem cells have the potential to regenerate damaged tissues and organs. Research is ongoing to harness stem cells for repairing age-related damage and restoring function.

3. **Metabolic and Dietary Interventions**:

- **Caloric Restriction**: Studies have shown that reducing calorie intake without malnutrition can extend lifespan in various organisms. Researchers are investigating the mechanisms behind this and developing drugs that mimic the effects of caloric restriction.

- **Rapamycin and mTOR Inhibition**: Rapamycin, a drug that inhibits the mTOR pathway, has been shown to extend lifespan in animal models. It is being studied for its potential to delay aging in humans.

4. **Regenerative Medicine**:

- **Tissue Engineering**: Creating replacement tissues and organs using bioengineering techniques can address age-related degeneration and organ failure.

- **3D Bioprinting**: This technology allows for the creation of complex tissues and organs layer by layer, potentially providing replacements for damaged or aging body parts.

5. **Artificial Intelligence and Biotechnology**:

- **AI in Drug Discovery**: AI is being used to accelerate the discovery of new drugs and therapies for aging-related conditions.

- **Biomarkers of Aging**: Developing accurate biomarkers to measure biological age and the effectiveness of anti-aging interventions.

6. **Cryonics and Mind Uploading**:

- **Cryonics**: The practice of preserving bodies or brains at extremely low temperatures with the hope that future technology can revive and rejuvenate them.

- **Mind Uploading**: A speculative concept where a person's consciousness is transferred to a digital substrate, potentially allowing for indefinite existence in a virtual environment.

### Ethical and Societal Considerations:

- **Equity and Access**: Ensuring that life-extending technologies are accessible to all, not just the wealthy.

- **Overpopulation**: Addressing the potential impact on global population and resources.

- **Quality of Life**: Ensuring that extended life is accompanied by improved health and well-being, not just prolonged existence.

### Current Status:

While significant progress has been made in understanding the biology of aging, most radical life extension technologies are still in the experimental stages. Human trials are ongoing for some interventions, but widespread application is likely still years or decades away.

Radical life extension remains a highly interdisciplinary field, combining insights from genetics, biotechnology, medicine, and computational science. The ultimate goal is to not only extend human lifespan but to ensure that those additional years are lived in good health and vitality.

[keysandmirrors]

Intro to what I dub my “Spider-team DR”. This DR is one I actually had a dream about instead of consciously making the decision to script about it so uhh that’s fun. Because of that though it doesn’t really exist in any sort of canon cause I don’t watch a lot of Marvel stuff. I made a little moodboard for it and I’ll explain the aspects of it below the cut 👍

• So starting off with my parents! Wade Wilson aka Deadpool is my father and Death (or Lady Death if you wanna get fancy with it) is my mother!! 💞 I was conceived ✨magically✨ and this makes me an interesting person for reasons I will get to later. My mom really wanted a child and so did my dad but he was kinda more anxious about if he could be a good father cause I mean… I love the guy but look at him 💀

• When I was first “born” my mama named me Wraith and I lived in the Realm of Death with her for the first few years of my life. She knew though that as someone who was technically alive that I should be raised up on Earth with other living people so she sent me to go move in with Deadpool :D

• Unfortunately the nature of his work and his existing insecurities made him think the best thing for me was to be put into foster care. It might be obvious though that as someone not born on Earth that would be a difficult legal process 💀 so my dad faked all my documents and stuff and a little funny thing I added was that while writing my name he saw an advertisement for a traveling circus and got distracted and accidentally, LEGALLY named me “Circus Wilson”. (Ik this is I choice I made so I’m happy with the name but I wanna make fun of him sometimes and I thought this was funny)

• So blah blah blah I grow up and at like 10-ish years old my mutant genes activate and I get picked up by the x-men. Ngl my powers are pretty generic, I just have like better senses, super strength, higher stamina, that kind of stuff. But it’s still useful so I get trained at Xavier’s School and I grow up there for a while as a trainee x-man. EDIT: After playing the Deadpool game again I’ve decided I can teleport cause I really wanna teleport oops 🫢 It’s limited the way it is in the game but still, very fun

• Now when I’m like 18 or so I’m gonna start college in ✨New York City✨ (this is where the Spider-team stuff comes in *wink wink*). I get an apartment with three people who quickly become my best friends. In order of the bottom row of pictures meant to depict us all we have, Bayani Parker, Vivica Stacy, Wylyn Hardy, and me :D Circus Wilson. You might be able to guess who becomes who in terms of alter-egos but I’ll expand more on it anyway lol (just keep in mind this is mostly info I could infer from my dream so if it doesn’t all make sense I’m sorry 🙏)

• Bayani Parker! Perhaps my bestest of all the friends her parents moved their family to New York from the Philippines when Bayani was a child so she really helps me around cause I am not built for the city 😭 she’s so smart too and her and Vivica and Wylyn are all going to college for engineering which is crazy to me cause they’re all really cool and smart. While at college though you may guess Bayani gets bit by a radioactive spider! It gives her super powers similar to a spider and now she’s New York’s one and only Spider-silk! (Her suit is purple and orange and I love it) She originally hides her identity from us all but I mean we live together she can’t keep that up forever and eventually we all figure it out one by one. But now we can help her! We cover for her a lot 💀

• Vivica Stacy next! Gosh I love her so much cause first impressions she seems like a rich, entitled, brat but she’s so much more than that. She’s so amazingly kind but also very confident so she won’t let anybody push around her or her friends. Now you may be thinking she becomes a ghost spider or something but no no no. While she’s working in her field she accidentally runs into the Venom symbiote and, as I’m sure you can guess, becomes Venom. So now we have a Spider-silk and a Venom to our roster of a mini-superhero team!

• Wylyn Hardy! I’m sure you can guess that he becomes the Black Cat but there’s a little twist to him. He has more of a Batman backstory in the simplest terms. Like he thought his family were a bunch of really upstanding people but they were involved in some shady stuff so now he becomes the Black Cat as a way to “steal from the rich and give to the needy” like Robin Hood lol. The Black Cat moniker was something he actually stole from his family as they used it for bad stuff and he went and just took it lol. He’s a very cool guy, very emotionally intelligent and really like the most level-headed of us all 💞

• And finally there’s me. Now I couldn’t decide if I wanted to be a Wraith variant or a Deadpool variant so I’m both at different times lol 🤷. Now I told you the way I was born would be important later and this is when it gets important. My whole life I’ve technically been “half dead” and just haven’t known it. There’s always been a part of me that’s connected to Death both as a concept and as a mother so unfortunately for Spider-silk I gotta become a canon event 😬 yeah pretty much at some point while fighting a villain I’m gonna die and return to the Realm of Death and reunite with my mom and learn all about my life and who/what I am.

• After dying and spending time with my mama I discover “new” powers (I’ve always had them they just had to be unlocked by me dying teehee). The main ones being I can’t die and I now regenerate like my father. It’s not really healing so much as it is my body reverts back to the moment before I died so that’s fun. Also she gifts me some sick chains that are used to chain souls down so that’s fun, they’re kind of psychic in visuals like I can make them float and stuff and sort of swing around with them the way Spider-silk does with her webs. Anyways after a few months with mom she tells me I should head back :( except now I can pretty much freely come and go like how Deadpool sees Death when he dies so it’s not so bad.

• Once I’m back up on Earth and in NYC I decide to stay hidden and start using my intended name of Wraith. I become like a vigilante in the public eye but in reality I’m just out collecting souls for my mom cause sometimes there are issues and they don’t go where they should, they latch onto people, people cheat death, etc etc. I don’t just mindlessly kill people basically dw guys. I do stop crimes that I come across cause why wouldn’t I? So when Spider-silk gets wind of me they’re kinda like on the fence about whether I’m actually a villain or not.

• This in between of Wraith and Deadpool (which I’m gonna refer to myself as Grimpool to distinguish between me and my dad) is the part where I’m the most fuzzy about details cause this whole “story” is taking place over multiple years this isn’t like month by month.

• But blah blah blah my identity is discovered, I reconcile with my friends, I legally become an actual human again with the help of the x-men cause ffs if I’m going to college I want my degree man I worked hard >:(. So now at this point in my life I think it’s time… to reunite with my father. Dun DUN DUNNN! I’m being dramatic but yeesh we do have some tense moments cause he’s like crazy and also a mercenary and he named me Circus who names their child Circus smh (*wink wink*). This feels like the time to mention Wade Wilson in my DR is based more on the video game Deadpool and not comic or movie Deadpool. So I’m sure you understand my apprehension getting to know him but he is an interesting person and I wanna bond over our shared immortality. So we meet and he really wants me to join the “family business” but I’m like “mm no thanks I’m literally a criminal psychologist why would I become a mercenary” but he says if I’m gonna continue hanging around superheroes and vigilantes then I should at least know how to fight, which, fair point. So he teaches me pretty much all he knows about fighting and now I’m a certified badass 😎 he also starts dubbing me Grimpool and sometimes we do go on missions together and I get my own suit so that’s fun.

~~~

There’s more details to this DR but nothing major so I don’t really feel the need to make this post longer lol. I hope you enjoyed this intro if you read this far and even if you didn’t thank you for reading this far 😭🙏

I also use this DR as kind of a “base” for other DRs such as The Boys and Gotham (the show, not just the city). So those might be more posts I make in the future. If you have any questions about this DR or the others feel free to hop in my inbox or ask in the comments or whatever 💞 I’m really excited to live this life so I’d love to talk about it. Oh I also might make a post just talking about what exactly my dream was like if anyone is interested, it was really lucid and I know some people in the shifting community are also interested in lucid dreaming so idk 🤷

[mellybabbles]

Meet Mellor!

(Edit from Future Melly. Since MaUTMV is canceled, I'm going to release his design. Dont' think anything will come of the design but I'm proud of it. Thank you guys for the support!) Info dump under cut Error belongs to loverofpiggies

Originally, Mellor had been her uncorrupted self, aka my sona. She was a scientist that was working on the multiverse and void theory. She was hired due to her lack of ability to feel properly, therefore lack of sympathy for test subjects and lab rats. But when a genocide struck her area, she flipped the device that was a work in progress to try and escape in a burning building. Upon doing so though, she was thrown into the Anti-Void. An unspecified amount of time passed, and over that time she corrupted. During corruption, her mixed genes corrupted and resulted in limb corruption as depicted with paws and different limbs. She forgot how to fly, and during corruption tripled her capacity to feel. Now alone, mentally unstable and stuck with emotions she's never felt before, she get's into unstable mindsets. Her mindset is thrown into this corrupted vision of the multiverse, believing that it's nothing but a trap and an unnecessary waste of space. Eventually, after a particular emotional outburst from the voices grating at her consciousness, she accidentally conjures a portal, and so she finally figures out her abilities. -- - Mellor has often emotional outbursts, usually them being rage or just straight up tantrums. - She tries to stick to her original belief that friends are unnecessary but she's painfully affection deprived - Much like Error, she crashes upon touch and has severe haphephobia due to it. Crashes are brutally painful and can last up to five minutes on normal terms. - Her abilities are similar to Error's, with strings, blasters, and bones. Although she has wings, she forgot how to fly, so she usually uses strings to hold herself up. - She doesn't like walking, due to her originally prior to corruption already not walking much, just preferring to hover. Instead she opts to use her strings. - She HATES being made fun of or any teasing. She's insecure -- - She's 6' - Cupioromantic ( a person who wants a romantic relationship, but does not feel romantic attraction) - Obsessed with soap operas - She considered ripping off her wings multiple times since they're a constant reminder of what she used to be (she wants to go back and figure out who she used to be)

Any other info will be released on a further date! Feel free to ask me questions

[darkmaga-returns]

But this isn’t just about wiping out humanity—it’s about replacing us. Cyborgs, bots, and transhumanism are at the core of a global agenda, one that ties directly to the elite’s obsession with depopulation.

The goal? To plug humanity into a matrix, uploading consciousness to a digital cloud, where reality as we know it is a simulation—controlled and manipulated. 

The Matrix wasn’t just a movie—it was predictive programming. And according to NASA documents, it’s about to become our new reality.

What’s even more disturbing? Many of the steps outlined in their plans have already happened. The clock is ticking, and the evidence is mounting. Are you ready to break free from the illusion?

Before we dive in, subscribe to the channel if you haven’t already, and join the People’s Voice Locals community to join our incredible community, support the channel, and gain access to exclusive and uncensored content.

The elite decided years ago to lie to us about the end-game of gene-editing nanotechnologies and the convergence of the digital world with the human body.

Biotechnology is literally the science of turning technology into new life forms and turning natural life forms into new technologies.

While transhumanism is often described as the merger of man with machine, in reality, it is the extinction of the human species and all biological life forms.

In a leaked presentation from NASA titled, “Future Strategic Issues/Future Warfare (Circa 2025),” NASA presents a plan for the extinction of humanity that includes the emergence of cyborgs and “virtual humans.”

[with-a-martyr-complex]

With A Martyr Complex: Reading List 2024

Adapted from the annual list from @balioc​, a list of books (primarily audiobooks) consumed this year. This list excludes several podcasts, but includes dramatizations and college lecture series from The Great Courses, which I consume like a somewhat normal person this time around, but normally I'm a weirdo about them.

Myth in Human History by Grant L. Voth, from The Great Courses

Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees

Augustine: Philosopher and Saint by Phillip Cary, from The Great Courses

The Broken Sword by Poul Anderson

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

Democracy and Its Alternatives by Ethan Hollander, from The Great Courses

Sex in the Middle Ages by Usman T. Malik, from The Great Courses

The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn by Usman T. Malik

The Fellowship of The Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Return of The King by J.R.R. Tolkien

Tibet: History, Culture, Religion by Constance Kassor, from The Great Courses

Maoism: A Global History, by Julia Lovell

The Three-Problem by Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu

Doppleganger: A Trip Into The Mirror World by Naomi Klein

The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu, translated by Joel Martinsen

Would You Baptise an Extraterrestrial?...and Other Questions from the Astronomers' In-Box at the Vatican Observatory by Guy Consolmagno SJ and Paul Meuller SJ

Death's End by Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu

Other Minds: The Octopus, THe Sea, and The Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith

Ugaritic Texts: Ba'al Cycle, translated by the Scriptural Research Institute

The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Constance Garnett

Propaganda and Persuasion by Dannagal G. Young, from The Great Courses

Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

War in the Modern World by David R. Stone

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou

Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks by Scott J. Shapiro

Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee

The Great Gamble: The Soviet War in Afghanistan by Gregory Feifer

The Unbroken by C. L. Clark

Norse Mythology by Jackson Crawford, from The Great Courses

She Who Became The Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War by Joanne B. Freeman

All Systems Red by Martha Wells

The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted The Heartland and Crushed The Soul of Corporate America--and How to Undo His Legacy by David Gelles

Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett

God against the Gods: The History of Monotheism and Polytheism by Robert Garland, from The Great Courses

Raven Stratagem by Yoon Ha Lee

A Desolation Called Peace by Akrady Martine

The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini, translated by John Addington Symonds

The Monster Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson

Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America by Krista Burton

When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Broke Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz

Anything For A Vote: Dirty Tricks, Cheap Shots, and October Surprises in US Presidential Campaigns by Joseph Cummins

The Wicked and The Willing by Lianyu Tan

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind

America after the Cold War: The First 30 Years by Patrick N. Allitt, from The Great Courses

The Aldo Moro Affaire by Jacopo Pezzan and Giacomo Brunoro, translated by a robot who could have done a better job quite frankly

Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union by Vladislav M. Zubok

The Shadow of The Torturer by Gene Wolf

Economics, 3rd Edition by Timothy Taylor

The Poetic Edda, translated by Jackson Crawford

Evgenii Onegin by Alexander Pushkin, translated by Mary Hobson (alternately titled Eugene Onegin)

Incomplete books: The Dragon: Fear and Power, Pilgermann, What Makes This Book So Great, Midnight's Children, Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, Heaven and Hell, Maya to Aztec: Ancient Mesoamerica Revealed, The Last Emperor of Mexico, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom, Emperor of Japan

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Great Courses consumed: 7

Non-Great Courses Nonfiction consumed: 19

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Works consumed by women: 14 or 15 (C.L. Clarke uses both they and she pronouns, counting is hard)

Works consumed by men: 35 or 36

Works consumed by men and women: 1

Works that can plausibly be considered of real relevance to foreign policy (including appropriate histories): 10

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With A Martyr Complex’s Choice Award, fiction division: Perfume: The Story of A Murderer

>>>> Honorable mention: The Dark Forest, Lud-in-the Mist, The Lord of The Rings, Ninefox Gambit, The Shadow of the Torturer, She Who Became The Sun, The Broken Sword, The Wicked and The Willing, All Systems Red

With A Martyr Complex’s Choice Award, nonfiction division: Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union

>>>> Honorable mention: War in the Modern World, Norse Mythology, The Man Who Broke Capitalism, The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, Economics, When The Clock Broke

>>>> Great Courses Division: Tibet: History, Culture, Religion

The Annual “An Essential Work of Surpassing Beauty that Isn’t Fair to Compare To Everything Else” Award: Evgenii Onegin

>>>> Honorable mention: The Gambler

The “Reading This Book Will Give You Great Insight Into The Way I See The World” Award: The Gambler

>>>> Honorable mention: The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War

Yes, okay? It IS Good After All and I was wrong to be a Hater: The Lord of The Rings

Best "Lesbian War Crimes" Book: Ninefox Gambit

Best Lesbian: Ma Xiuying (She Who Became The Sun)

Best War Crime: Mutually Assured Destruction by Antimatter Bullets (Death's End)

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This year I got a bit better at reading non-audiobooks, thought not as much as I had hoped, but I feel as though if I were putting more time into it the divide could be overcome. However, I also read far fewer audiobooks this year, in part due to that same promotion at work, in part due to The Election, in part due to falling into bad habits. An easy goal for next year is just working on getting out of that habit. I did manage to hit my target at the end, at least.

I took up the intellectual project of reading "Lesbian War Crimes" Science Fiction/Fantasy books, which had a pretty dramatic effect on the layout of my books for the year. Suffice to say, picking up a contemporary genre is not as Good For Me as reading from wide sources which include international literature and The Classics. Some were real hits though.

My own creative output was not as large as I wanted but it was consistently of relatively high quality and originality, which I think was good. My attempt at a novel failed out of the gate, but I can take a stab at another one in the new year.

Goals for next year: learn some econ, more literary fiction, get a novel down

[somekindofsentience]

katya and dmitry (my beloveds), or discussing mutation motifs in texts from a biological and psychological standpoint

CONTENT WARNING: DISCUSSIONS OF MENTAL ILLNESS AND HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION.

READING-THIS WARNING: I MISINTERPRET STUFF A LOT, THIS IS PURELY MY INTERPRETATION OF THE SERIES. SORRY IF I'M WRONG. :(

When I first watched through Parties are for Losers and its respective songs, my brain was already whirring. Come on. I'm a Vocaloid nerd, obviously I have to look into it, and I know something is up, which means the analysis brain begins. I really enjoyed the Evillous Chronicles, and it seemed as though this was similar. Unlike it, this was actually in English (being set in Russia), and the narrative felt inherently more understandable, although that may just be because it's only 13 songs, compared to Evillous' 82.

AND it covers topics of biology and its affects on psychology. it's perfect. why have i never heard of this before??!?!?!?

There's a lot of aspects to explore within PafL, but I want to specifically focus on Katya (KT) and Dmitry, and their mutations, taking a biological and social approach to their current mental state. I will refer to Katya by her full "name" because it feels a little more humanising, and our baby girl deserves that.

Human experimentation/mutation is a fascinating topic to explore, because it questions the essence of humanity itself - how could you do that to another human being, a child, no less? End and Save is one of my favourite webtoon comics because of this. The abilities that these children gain typically have significant disadvantages, due to the inherently unethical nature of the creation. In some ways, the mutation itself explores corruption.

Biologically, genetic mutations are a natural occurrence, resultant from selection. We are nowhere near the current level needed to cause significant mutation like that of Katya and Dmitry's, and despite what most people think, there's actually no real intention to head in that direction. Therapeutic gene editing (LITERALLY MY SPECIALISED INTEREST. LIKE I WANT TO GO INTO THIS IN THE FUTURE. THIS IS PERFECT.) strays away from eugenics, and focuses on curing genetic disease. It's a fascinating topic of research, and one I hold dear to me. CRISPR my beloved

Katya's mutant ability is directly related to stress. It causes the extensive growth of tissue when she's in a stressful situation, and she has limited control over the flesh. This then has to be cut off, leaving serious wounds to heal on her skin.

art by Ferry

Taking this biologically, it would have to be mutation related to extreme cell division in tissue - in more simple terms, it's not unlike cancer, where a cell does not consider the required markers for division, and instead rapidly divides. Katya's seems far more controlled than cancer, sticking only to particular sites, and also significantly more extreme. Considering the stress required, it may actually be related to an influx of hormonal changes during stress sequences.

As a result of this, Katya is hypersensitive to the emotion of others and can tolerate a high amount of stress, with inherent optimism. She's relatively simple, and tries her best not to let her abilities weigh her down. In the end, she resigns herself to undeserving of true kindness, suggesting she has some well-hidden low self-esteem.

Dmitry's mutant ability seems more controllable, and therefore powerful, than Katya's. He has the ability to pick up anything, with vague limitations on weight, provided he knows specific location and it is within a 15 metre radius.

art by Ferry

Telekinesis from a biological standpoint? I'm not opening that can of worms. I'm not even gonna try. Make it up yourself. I'm pretty sure A Certain Scientific Railgun couldn't even really explain Kuroko's powers, and I'm one small scrawny rat.

Dmitry suffers severe physical consequences as a result of this ability, even using it regularly - severe headaches, loss of consciousness, and dizziness, which can been seen when he attempts to save Anya. Dmitry is significantly more cautious of the outside world than Katya is, and he's somewhat more hostile, threatening Yura and Sanya when he is blackmailed. However, he's practical, likely from the skills taught to him through use of telekinesis.

Dmitry and Katya were set out to have a negative relationship, due to the power dynamics between the two of them making them inherently different people. Dmitry was used for several years as an "assistant" to test Katya's abilities, and seems to hold a grudge with her over that. They have differing opinions on the outside world, particularly due to the way Dmitry's inhumanity was repeated to him often, as the lab researchers began to fear his power. He's not so pessimistic that he acts as contrast to Katya, but the clashing elements still causes them to go their separate ways in KT's Guide.

I couldn't find any specific links between the use of GUMI as KT and Fukase as Dmitry, but I'm sure there is some when considering the different Vocaloids used as a whole. I just wish I could understand what it was, but I don't quite know enough about Vocaloid as a whole for that. Alternatively, it could just be because of gender and the fact that both sound good with the style of the song.

song i wrote this listening to (after PafL, of course): sleep thru ur alarms by Lontalius

it's been a rough night, okay? i needed this as a distraction.

thanks so much to powercoreact for the suggestion! i genuinely really enjoyed this, and you hit my secret hidden love for vocaloid right in the feels. can you believe i watched this like an hour ago??? i feel like i've known it for years.

[sunhearted]

INSPIRATION FOR AILANA'S MONOGENDER SPECIES AND UNUSUAL REPRODUCTION.

For my purposes, instances of Asari can be replaced with Deira, the name of Ailana's species. All of this belongs to the writers and developers at BioWare and Mass Effect. I found this on Wikipedia.

Asari are a mono-gendered species with no concept of gender differences. According to Liara, "male and female have no real meaning for us," and, if asked, says that she is "not precisely a woman." At the same time, Asari are often viewed as an all-female race, including by the Codex and by the Galactic Codex: Essentials Edition 2183. To humans at least, Asari appear female with feminine physical characteristics and voices. Even among the Asari, many individual Asari are referred to as “she” and “her“ but some Asari prefer male pronouns, while others gravitate toward gender-neutral where language allows.

Asari also bear feminine titles like “huntress” and “matriarch” and asari offspring are referred to as “daughters“, however the Asari may have chosen feminine pronouns to simplify language translations. Asari are natural biotics (force users ) although they must still train to use it for martial purposes. However Asari gender is defined, they are innately different from humans, for Asari can mate and successfully reproduce with any other gender or species through a form of parthenogenesis.

Although they have one gender, they are not asexual and do in fact require a partner to reproduce. However, Asari reproduction is very different from other forms of sexual reproduction. An Asari provides two copies of her own genes to her offspring, one of which is passed on unaltered. The second set of genes is altered in a unique process called melding, also known as the joining or the union. During melding, the eyes of the Asari initiating the meld dilate as she consciously attunes her nervous system to her partner's, sending and receiving electrical impulses directly through the skin, however physical contact is not strictly necessary.

A common phrase used before melding is "embrace eternity," presumably to help focus the partner's mind. Effectively, the Asari and her partner briefly become one unified nervous system, sharing memories, thoughts, and feelings. The offspring is always an Asari, regardless of the species or sex of the "father" and in the case that the offspring is of two Asari, the father is the one who does not give birth.

[integratedsoul]

✨WEEK: 5/5/24-5/12/24✨

R.E.P.O.R.T.

How did I ✨REALIGN✨ this week?: 

-podcasts: Ed Mylett with Leila Hormozi "Act from your values, not your feelings"; Ed Mylett solo podcast about fear; Katorina Satori (abundance/intimacy wound) on Youtube; profound on youtube; Dr. Joe Dispenza, body wisdom podcast: 3 steps to get out of freeze mode; human design/ gene keys

-learning about Near Death Experiences on YouTube; miraculously inspiring

What did I ✨EAT✨/ What ✨EXERCISE✨ did I indulge in?: -I planted the garden! I made sourdough discard crackers & pizza, granola, meatloaf with billy, beef tacos, fritzs cinny rolls.. lots of: yogurt bowls, deli sandwiches, & protein shakes.

-took a break from my 'normal' routine; had a bit of a lazy week mentally; still showed up physically everyday. Consistency is how progress shows up. 

What did I ✨PRIORITIZE✨ this week:

-Joining masterclasses: putting myself in the room to learn and be a student, to gain wisdom and insight from others! Commit as my higher self!  5/4: Quantum coaching masterclass w/ Ashley 5/5: pause breath work master class 5/6: thriving in midlife w/ Dr. Edie 5/7: sound engineering with the being method 5/8: billy & I cooked meatloaf cups and dessert on zoom with PA cooking class 5/8: Gerrian Jones breakthrough session 5/10 & 5/11: Tony Robbins Unshakeable business 5/12: Dr. Nicolya human design master class 

What did I ✨OBSESS✨ over this week: 

-writing & editing scripts, recording & posting videos: releasing multiple this week

-masterclasses: favorites from the week: Tony Robbins- unshakeable business & Dr. Nicolya- human design 

-podcasts: favorites: Ed Mylett with Leila Hormozi, Body Wisdom podcast how to get out of freeze; youtube- katorina satori & Dr. Nicolya

What would I ✨RECOMMEND✨ for next week: 

-BOOKS: “It didn't start with you”- Mark Wolymn / psychology around quitting substances/addictions -Allen Carr

-meditation book→ get back into journaling my mediations & continue with morning pages in new book! (get book & decorate it→format the front with: gratitude list, your why, your values)

-morning breathwork practice followed by qigong, tapping, movement 

-profound personalized self care: find a ‘strategy’ that you can use to tap into your intuitive→ MUSCLE TESTING (ask very basic questions that you know the answer to, then see how other questions feel after establishing a “specific” expected outcome)

-dive more into the quantum realm and manifest something small to generate positivity on my journey What did I TRY this week: / or What was your favorite ✨TEACHING✨ you learned?

-BALANCE INSULIN* →main hormone to balance for OPTIMAL health (Dr. Edie)

-"THE BREATH IS THE BRIDGE BETWEEN DIMENSIONS” (Katarina Satori) 

-"JUST COMMIT AS YOUR HIGHER SELF AND ALLOW YOUR HIGHER SELF TO SHOW UP (Garrian Jones)

-“LEADERS ANTICIPATE, LOSERS REACT” (Tony Robbins)

-"FEAR (the unknown) IS ALWAYS PRESENT WHEN I’M DOING SOMETHING WORTH DOING” -Leila Hormozi

-"ALIGN YOUR VALUES AND ACT FROM YOUR VALUES, NOT YOUR FEELINGS" -Leila Hormozi

OTHER NOTES:  1. It’s not about how you feel- it’s about how you react to your feelings- how you react to the parts of yourself that are afraid of the situation!!!!!!  2. Be mindful be smart but also be courageous—> know what serves you and what doesn’t but know what has the potential to serve you    3. Treat yourself like a friend to allow parts of you to change!  4. Do things with courage, you can be scared and still do something, and when you’re finished you realize it wasn’t even scary anyway!! Daily breakdown: 5/5/24→my effort is more than nothing. (breath, qigong, workout) 5/6/24→my life is full of devotion. (breath, yoga, workout, 20 yin) 5/7/24→I have powers in my body. (pickleball, lets up wall) 5/8/24→my love ripples throughout the world. (meditation, workout, garden) (end cycle) 5/9/24→we are one beating consciousness. (run, emotional clearing, hips yoga, meditations) 5/10/24→I am here for the full human experience. (tony robbins unshakeable business) 5/11/24→my life is exactly as I make it. (yoga, workout) 5/12/24→my energy lights up around the safest people in my life. (short breathwork practice, insight timer meditation, qigong, yoga, EFT, workout) 

[vyragosa]

kinda convinced by now DS2 might be about genetic drive, continuity of Kojima's long-standing obsession making sense as well

here's why, everyone was made to wear Bridget's DNA by the end of DS in the form of a brooch, the cause of Sam's wife death also due to DOOMS being genetically passed down to the foetus (the original Louise), the Extinction factor and mention of its possible counterpart as an evolutionary advantage, which, evolutionary advancement is outright mentionned by Amelie as a goal during the final beach scene and exctinction as an opportunity for it

Fragile's skin being healed also raising questions to the treatment for it to happen, the appearance of an adult BB, consciousness in a machine, the fact that Louise is named after another child (her more than suspiscious origins and coincidentally ending in Sam's hands, never brought up)

now as for potential inspiration: recently there's a rise in biohacking through "homemade" gene editing, the pandemic itself making him rewrite the game, genetic material at the forefront now add to this the rise of misinformation and a visible cult in the DS2 trailer

interesting stuff in perspective

[byneddiedingo]

James Brolin and Richard Benjamin in Westworld (Michael Crichton, 1973)

Cast: Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, James Brolin, Norman Bartold, Alan Oppenheimer, Victoria Shaw, Dick Van Patten, Linda Gaye Scott, Steve Franken, Michael T. Mikler, Terry Wilson, Majel Barrett, Anne Randall. Screenplay: Michael Crichton. Cinematography: Gene Polito. Art direction: Herman A. Blumenthal. Film editing: David Bretherton. Music: Fred Karlin. 

Today, Michael Crichton's film Westworld is probably best known for inspiring the HBO series of the same name. Viewing both of them is a study in the anxieties of two eras almost 50 years apart. The 1973 film takes place in a futuristic amusement park in which the guests indulge their fantasies by encountering androids playing figures from the past and mostly either killing them or having sex with them. So does the series, which ran from 2016 to 2022. In both the movie and the series, things go seriously awry, with the androids killing or maiming their human guests. Especially in comparison with the series' handsomely realized vision of the future, its exploration of the creation of the androids, and its portrayal of the corporate intrigue behind the scenes of the park, Crichton's movie looks antique: the special effects are clunky, the characterization and acting are routine, and some of the action scenes are unconvincing. But the chief difference between the movie and the series lies in their understanding of the causes of the park's disaster. In the movie, the cause is said to be malfunctioning technology, an undetected glitch in the machinery. But in the series the cause lies deeper: The androids develop consciousness, a self-awareness that causes them to rebel against their human makers. To put it in other words, in the 1970s we were concerned about the problem of increasing dependence on fallible technology. In the 21st century, we're worried about technology becoming too good, about artificial intelligence outstripping human intelligence. The fallibility is not in the machines but in ourselves. But to be fair, Crichton showed a sign of our concern about AI, specifically the potential for cybernetic beings to self-replicate and evolve on their own. An engineer in the movie notes that the androids are "almost as complicated as living organisms. In some cases, they have been designed by other computers. We don't know exactly how they work." 

[spotsupstuff]

Ok I just had a crackhead idea, so since caper and sparrow wanted kids, what if caper had tried to purpose an organism using his and sparrows DNA, but it didn't work due to taboos preventing him from editing his own genes (and/or purposing a being using an ancients dna) causing him to attempt to overwrite taboos using a similar process to pebbles, and thus causing his first rot.

I assume you already have an idea for how he got rot the first time (you may have even posted it and I never saw/forgot) but that's just an idea I came up with, it would also add extra angst as to why he didn't tell her.

not necessarily that much of a crackhead idea n it is interesting, but the main issue with this is mainly that the "caper and sparrows wanted kids" statement is wrong, honestly. Euros is the one who'd like to have them more openly, Sparrows is the one who's very conscious of her position's limits as a Mechanic and what it takes to raise a kid well (girl has personal experience bein the third oldest in a big family n everythin). this conflict of wants has been openly communicated between them and Euros consciously agreed with Sparrows that logistically and realistically they wouldn't be able to give a child a good environment to grow up, just on the mere basis that they wouldn't have the Time to give the bare minimum that is enough love. Euros needs to run iterations and Sparrows needs to be either running all around within him (dangerous n exhausting) or, as secretly agreed, to Zeph from time to time to fix her up at least a little bit (even more dangerous n exhausting)

so while i will not deny that the last sentence got me to nod in interest upon first read-thru, the angst would be ultimately rooted in him blatantly ignoring the agreement, logic and well-being of this hypothesized child he'd be creating for the two of them and that's just... the kind of a deep cut betrayal that he would not ever allow to happen as someone who claims he loves Sparrows as much as he does. it'd be a case of a bad husband rather than a case of "we can't have a child no matter what we do, truly, and now i shall suffer for it" tragedy

[waterless-calamari]

As a late Capitalism True Believer and an economist, THIS IS IT. Don't fall for "x country isn't doing capitalism correctly, so it's suffering". It's not a few bad apples, the roots have always been rotten.

Capitalism is a system we created, consciously or not. If we created, we can change it. People treat it as a force of Nature, but it's a social construct. We get to decide how society is organized. Are you telling me humans can go to the moon, build quantum computers and pursue gene editing, but we cannot change something we made up???

Never forget:

WE MADE IT, WE CAN CHANGE IT

[lifechanyuan]

The Secrets of Black Holes

Xuefeng

(Translation edited by Qinyou)

I only read Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time a year ago. Prior to that, I had already completed The Chapter of the Universe, Time and Space, which I initially titled Journey of Transcending Time and Space. Later, I realized that the entire universe is a courtyard of LIFE, and to understand this courtyard of LIFE, one must rely on Zen awakening. Therefore, I renamed Journey of Transcending Time and Space to Lifechanyuan.

While meditating on the origin and characteristics of the universe, I discovered a secret: the sum of positive and negative energies in the universe is zero. Later, when I read A Brief History of Time, I found that Mr. Hawking had also discovered this secret. I explore the mysteries of the universe with sincere religious feelings, while Mr. Hawking does so with a sincere scientific attitude. It is gratifying that, despite the vastly different epistemologies and methodologies of religion and science, the results converge in many surprising ways.

Why is it that two people walking in opposite directions can eventually meet in a distant place? This involves countless secrets of the universe, one of which is that the limits of the microscopic lead to the macroscopic, and the ultimate of the macroscopic enters the microscopic. This is somewhat like a person entering a cave and groping forward, only to discover that the cave leads to another vast world, “where hills bend, streams wind and the pathway seems to end, another village appears with willows and flowers in.”

Assuming humanity can escape the cyclical catastrophes, scientists will ultimately realize that the entire universe is a holograph, an indivisible whole, that the universe is holographic, and that the universe is composed of the Greatest Creator’s spirit—the Tao, nonmaterial structure, and order. The entire universe is like a person, strictly formed according to the proportional development of its LIFE gene’s nonmaterial structure. Just as the human body has no superfluous organs, the universe has no superfluous celestial bodies. Although the universe appears chaotic and disordered, everything is, unexpectedly, arranged scientifically, meticulously, and precisely. Even the size, mass, tilt angle, rotation speed, and orbital speed of Earth are accurate to several decimal places.

This is why all seekers of truth, as long as they do so without any personal bias and solely pursue the truth, will inevitably converge, whether they are scientists or religious believers.

When I was exploring the forces that cause the orderly movement of celestial bodies, I discovered “black holes.” While scientists discovered the four fundamental forces of the universe and attempted to establish a unified field theory based on these forces, I discovered six cosmic forces. Therefore, I dare to assert that scientists are currently unable to establish a unified field theory of the universe.

So, what are the mysteries of “black holes”?

1.

A “black hole” is a high-energy material aggregate. The reason for their “invisibility” aligns with the energy and form equation I recognized, namely: the greater the energy, the less tangible; the smaller the energy, the more tangible. I believe that scientists will eventually recognize this point.

2.

“Black holes” are “gods” created by the Greatest Creator; they have consciousness. Each “black hole” is like a policeman maintaining traffic order. The vast universe is maintained and adjusted by these “black hole policemen.” Without the role of the “black hole policemen,” Earth would inevitably crash into the Sun. We know that celestial bodies have a gravitational force that always “desires” to pull others into their “embrace,” while the repulsive force of “black holes” “cruelly” severs this “longing thread of love” that “infatuated lovers” wish to use to “embrace each other,” ensuring that they maintain a relative distance and do not cross the line.

3.

In general, the energy of matter is concentrated in its core, but with “black holes,” it’s the opposite. Their energy is concentrated on the periphery. When viewed from the outside, “black holes” appear pitch black, with nothing visible, but inside, they are not black at all but are instead a world of bright light. This is like the special mirrors on some general managers’ office windows, where nothing inside the office can be seen from the outside, but inside, there is plenty of light or bright lamps, and everything outside can be clearly observed.

In “Journey to the West,” during the episode “Beat the White Bone Demon for Three Times,” Wukong draws a circle on the ground with his Golden Cudgel to protect Tang Sanzang, Sha Wujing, and Zhu Bajie from being captured by demons. The White Bone Demon, disguised as a young woman, cannot enter the circle because its energy surpasses her own. The structure of a black hole is similar to that circle and the state within it.

4.

From the third point, we conclude that “black holes” are not actually black.

5.

“Black holes” maintain dynamic balance. Many scientists believe that the force of a "black hole" is so immense that it can swallow all nearby energy, consuming everything without releasing anything. However, this is not the case. The existence of any entity must conform to a dynamic balance, involving both intake and release, interaction and exchange. Nothing in the universe only absorbs without releasing or only takes without giving. If such an entity existed, the universe would not be as it is now.

6.

A "black hole" absorbs gravitational force and emits repulsive force.

7.

Some might worry that since "black holes" maintain the cosmic order like policemen, could they possibly "doze off" or lose focus, resulting in cosmic "traffic chaos"? Rest assured, "black hole policemen" neither "doze off" nor make errors in their guidance, as they are governed and constrained by even greater conscious energy laws. The greater the energy, the higher the wisdom, and the more the "LIFE" follows the Tao's operation.

8.

The most powerful "black holes" in the universe serve as prisons, specifically for incarcerating gods and demons who have violated "divine laws." The “Cathode Black Hole Body” in the 36-dimensional space refers to such a "black hole."

Of course, many will think that I am daydreaming or speaking nonsense and may ask, "How do you know these mysteries?"

My answer is, through spiritual intuition.

How does an earthworm, a simple creature with a straight digestive tract, know when it's going to rain? How does a psychic know the situation of a person thousands of miles away?

An American psychic with over 30 years of experience, who accurately predicted many significant events, inexplicably sent me, a person she had never met, a letter. She wrote, "I have a ton of great news for you... and I mean in a really big way... It's fascinating... Destiny has aligned everything, the planets, chance, fate, everything. I haven't seen anything like this in a long, long time. It's like the feeling you get when you 'click' with someone or something... but much, much bigger. It is more like a personal miracle. Would you believe that I was glancing at a list when your name practically flew off the sheet? (figuratively, not literally.) Well, after over thirty years of practice, I knew something big was up... This is like a dream, only I feel it with all six senses." She described the wonderful scene she "saw" and concluded by saying, "It's as if the Greatest Creator painted the picture. The guests are all dressed in their Sunday best, and children, lots of children, are happily playing. In the center of all this is a well-dressed person holding up a small piece of paper as if it were incredibly valuable."

What is that incredibly valuable paper she "saw"? Without a doubt, it is the Lifechanyuan I wrote. If it isn't Lifechanyuan, what other paper could hold such incredible value?

The mysteries of the universe are endless, and so are the secrets of "black holes." We indeed need to continuously explore, not only on the material level but also on the nonmaterial level. I hope scientists and religious believers will verify the "black hole mysteries" I have mentioned to see if they are indeed as described and reveal even more mysteries of "black holes."

I also hope that seekers of truth will not be bound by Lifechanyuan, not to blindly believe in Lifechanyuan, and certainly not to treat the author of Lifechanyuan as someone special.

Let us explore and advance together!