#entropy/decay

[larissa-the-scribe]

Working on a more explicitly Christian story is funny because this means every time I zone out in church I start automatically worldbuilding the horrors like hmmmmmm we're talking about praising God but also this scripture could be a good inspiration for a water-based eldritch being

[pistachi0art]

choose a team, who’s winning and why

[sincerely-sofie]

You're scared you'll never care about someone. You're scared you never have. You don't know how much love is held in your chest. You never will.

[thinkingimages]

It's all falling and crushing. tanya rusnak. liminal autumn archive (oct 17, 2024)

[ancientstarrydynamo]

The Old Pump House

[here-there-were-dragons]

you know, the fact that complex intelligences keep spontaneously arising from concentrations of magic kind of implies that magic is a semi-anti-entropic force that by default tends towards spontaneous organization

[elkcrown]

the most important part in life is to have friends who are studying because you can ask them to get you research pdfs for your little autistic adventures

[ghostcrows]

the more that the ugh ack ew im gonna get old thoughts simmer within me the more i resent them because if youth is all i got then im so fucked beyond belief and i refuse to genuinely entertain the idea especially when the majority of my youth thus far has been an empty void sorry you are not going to convince me these have been my peak my best years my prime that's an insult to my fucking entire being...even the very concept of nostalgia as much as i helplessly and repeatedly indulge in it the same way everybody does it starts to bore the shit out of me...i don't want to get completely stuck in any era i want to move forward.

[michaelmathewsart]

“Terminal Debris 02"

[Terminal series]

by michael mathews

mixed media & collage on panel

16x20 inches

2024

www.michaelmathewsart.com

[proudfreakmetarusonikku]

neo still has fucked up shit going on with THE END btw that’s not nova exclusive it’s just she never goes to cyberspace bc she has a one track mind so she literally never finds out. like the “machine goddess” thing isn’t an exaggeration she's absorbed a fraction of divinity in exchange for being the pawn of something much bigger than her (not that she did so on purpose bc again. one track mind. she found powerful glowy orb and absorbed the power without thinking twice) but then accidentally avoided the side effects by virtue of just ignoring all the attempts at the sealed conceptual being trying to manipulate her into freeing them bc they didn’t offer her anything that she even cares about she’s entirely oblivious to it.

[cameatslemons]

am i therian if my gender is several thousand maggots pretending to be human

[sulfur1c-4cid]

i llove unique depictions of the rot

[anthropologistfromentropy]

A quiz reminded me of the mushroom post quote "decay exists as an extant form of life". But that applies to all living organisms, not just mushrooms, if you really think about thermodynamics. Life IS decay.

Like, the mushroom itself doesn't decay any more than we all do. We all are fighting against the decay of our bodies, death is just when we stop fighting. We all consume our environment to stay alive. The universe decays into thermal energy with each breath we take.

Every living organism is like a ship of Theseus that's falling apart at the same rate it's getting repaired, desperately scrambling to get enough building materials from it's environment to survive.

[ancientstarrydynamo]

I've driven past this field full of abandoned vehicles a few times a year for about 15 years. I always wanted to stop and take photos, but I was warned that the man who lives there was not friendly. Well, since time makes fools of us all, the gun-toting landowner is now no longer a problem.

[marvelousmagicalaura]

I've been having a lot of discussions and thoughts about Ruin's future sight, Preservation's plans, and Harmony's knowledge.

Because of this, I have a good basis on how to write Ruin in my Mistborn AU. Sanderson has hinted that Ruin is the power of change and entropy, so I really want to lean in that direction. Rather than portraying him as the entity of death and destruction that Sanderson wrote him as, I want to write him as the God of Decay and Entropy. Everything we associate with canon Ruin would be parts of his desire/methods of ensuring that all things degrade and decay. Death and destruction are parts of his Intent, but they aren’t forefront in the Intent. The forefront of Ruin’s Intent consists of degradation, entropy, and chaos. To enhance this idea, I may write that AU Ruin pushes people to embrace uncertainty and change.

For example, we know that Ruin canonically pulled the strings behind Kelsier’s rebellion and the discovery of the Eleventh Metal. I would enhance this idea, so that Ruin is responsible for the rise and fall of pre-Rashek empires and kingdoms, war, the advancement of technology, and rebellions. In the Final Empire’s context he would be responsible for guiding its various rebellions, and for advancing technology in the less controlled Dominances.

Ruin weaves and executes multiple, branching schemes to ensure the subtle, slow downfall of Scadrial and its empires. He knows there are countless ways his Intent is present in the Universe, and will execute them through any avenue. I would significantly expand on his actions throughout history.

I desperately intend to expand upon Ruin’s precognitive abilities. It doesn’t feel right downplaying Ruin’s future sight when the only WoB we have about it came from 2012, way before Sanderson truly incorporated precognition into the Cosmere. Not only that but the Mistborn trilogy was written before he solidified Cosmere-wide mechanics. I think that once a Mistborn adaptation comes out, we will truly see his abilities in action.

AU Ruin’s future sight would still be inferior to Preservation. It feels slightly wrong LMAO, but it’s necessary for the ending. But it’s far better than Elend’s future vision and Odium’s future sight.

I haven’t read Stormlight yet, but I heard that Odium definitively has future sight. Going by the IRL definition of the word “odium,” I believe canon Ruin’s Intent of causing death and destruction requires a lot more foresight/planning than inducing hatred.

AU Ruin would also be so much more destructive when released. I want to give Ruin more influence over the world by creating more natural disasters - earthquakes with more impact, floods, earthquakes, blizzards, thunderstorms, tornadoes and hurricanes, scenes of Luthadel’s death etc…

Right now I plan to say that weakened Ruin w/ Preservation’s presence can manipulate phenomena that already exists in Scadrial's natural science. He can manipulate and create anything on the planet to his liking, but he can't _completely_ destroy its structure. He can't do feats like reduce the continents to nothingness, boil the oceans in their entirety, or burn the planet down until nothing remains.

But he can do everything the Lord Ruler accomplished during his Ascension. Weakened Ruin can move the continents or split them apart, move the planet, boil the oceans so they’re absurdly hot, and make the planet hotter or colder.

[generativetenebrousautomata]