#epsilon 6

[dontforcemetologin]

what should I name them?

also thank you guys for liking the rough sketch! I physically vibrate whenever I check back on my activity page and see that one of you liked/ reblogged my art.

thank you so much!

[badlycroppedpuppy]

ummm my scp mtf oc (epsilon 6)

[a1exkra1ie]

hey so uh has anyone heard about that ai guy and that agent guy from that silly halo show??

close-ups:

so like a month later (including a 3 week vacation where I didnt have my laptop), I'm finally done with this drawing. somehow in all that time I didn't lose interest in wash and epsilon. crazy! (I tell myself bedtime stories about them before sleeping)

[major-comet]

epsilon is so interesting to me because there was so much potential to really lean into the horror of the came back wrong sort of trope with him but they honestly don’t, really.

if i were tucker, I would have been WAY more freaked out about epsilon, honestly.

like, here’s this guy who I guess kind of acts like my friend - who apparently died (for real this time) while I was gone, doesn’t know much of anything about me (because caboose didn’t say much about tucker), and that pretty much everyone around me is insisting is basically the same. but he’s obviously not. like that's some invasion of the body snatchers type shit.

and maybe that’s part of why tucker is so pissed when carolina and epsilon ditch the reds and blues. because if epsilon is gonna replace his friend, then he’s not even doing a good job at it because he’s not even fucking here!

IDK! i have a lot of thoughts about epsilon and the weird place he inhabits in the story.

[multifariousmediums]

Closeups and process video under the cut!

[Video: Timelapse of the piece, starting with a rough sketch, then a m more detailed one. Clothes are added on in a third layer, and then the piece is lined and colored in. End description.]

[im-a-mint]

I think alpha should've been given a more ceremonious death than just getting emp-ed + tucker should've been There to witness it or Know of it when it happened so that Epsilon could be more of an individual character and not a version of the alpha church we knew. like those aren't Our church's memories those are the memories of the copied AI that was tortured and traumatized beyond repair by PFL to the point it's original host got fucked up ass trauma from having him in his head for . like. ten minutes. epsilon shouldn't have been That similar to church even with caboose talking to him cause they're almost separate entities + epsilon was never an empty slate he was a full file that was overheating and desperate for escape. like hello.

[eparchclass]

Epsilon-6 Xenintation [left] — A queer presentation label based on the concept of MTF Epsilon-6 / Village Idiots, aesthetics associated with Village Idiots, or just Village Idiots, etc. A presentation outside the traditional / typical gender binaries.

Epsilon-7 Xenintation [right] — A queer presentation label based on the concept of MTF Epsilon-7 / Forget Me Nota, aesthetics associated with Forget Me Nota, or just Forget Me Nots, etc. A presentation outside the traditional / typical gender binaries.

Epsilon-11 Xenintation [left] — A queer presentation label based on the concept of MTF Epsilon-11 / Nine-Tailed Fox, aesthetics associated with Nine-Tailed Fox, or just Nine-Tailed Fox, etc. A presentation outside the traditional / typical gender binaries.

Epsilon-13 Xenintation [right] — A queer presentation label based on the concept of MTF Epsilon-13 / Manifest Destiny, aesthetics associated with Manifest Destiny, or just Manifest Destiny, etc. A presentation outside the traditional / typical gender binaries.

Tagging @radiomogai @presentationflag-archive and @blood-moon-night-coining

[dzthenerd490]

File: Alan Wake

SCP#: AHH

Code Name: Cauldron Lake/ Reality Ocean

Object Class: OVM

Special Containment Procedures: Mobile Task Force Mnemosyne-Γ "The Darkest Minds hold the Strongest Pens" is responsible for suppressing the reality warping abilities of SCP-AHH. The Pataphysics Department and Department of Unreality manages MTF Mnemosyne-Γ as well as containment of SCP-AHH. 

Mobile Task Force Mnemosyne-Γ is enforced by clones created by the Foundation given brains that are genetically programmed with vast knowledge, spliced with genes of reality benders collected by the Foundation through the years, and trained in Oneiroi. The combination of high intelligence, reality bender genes, and the ability of Oneiroi has allowed these clones to interact with SCP-AHH in ways that no normal or abnormal Foundation staff ever could before. 

There are currently 35 units within MTF Mnemosyne-Γ with their physical bodies being located at various Foundation sites. 5 are located at Site-AD, 10 at Site-AG, 5 at Site-AK, 5 at Site-AM, 10 at Site-AP. The reason they are spread out is to ensure that if one Site suffers a containment breach and a team ends up killed as a result, the other MTF Mnemosyne-Γ units will continue to suppress SCP-AHH. 

MTF Mnemosyne-Γ units use their ability of Oneiroi to travel to the location of SCP-AHH without physically getting close, once there they utilize their reality bending to prevent SCP-AHH from harming or even noticing them. Once there, they combined their vast intelligence and different anomalous abilities to create a metaphysical barrier around SCP-AHH to keep it from leaking out. Of course, SCP-AHH anomalous reality altering abilities makes this nearly impossible as it continues to create cracks and gaps in the barrier allowing bits of its influence to leak out. However, without MTF Mnemosyne-Γ units doing this, SCP-AHH would have caused greater damage to our world. 

The town called Bright Falls that surrounds the physical location of SCP-AHH has been taken by the Foundation with the primary reason to perform physical experiments. The secondary reason is to safely escort away any civilians who accidently or try to get too close to SCP-AHH. The Third reason is to dispose of any SCP-AHH-1 instances, Foundation Laser Rifles are distributed to ensure this happens with 100% success. The town is populated by AFA-3 units programmed with Level 3 A.I., equipped with the understanding of human psychology and emotions, allowing them to be perceived as normal people. Testing has shown that Artificial Intelligence does not affect SCP-AHH at all so utilization of AFA-3 units is the best alternative to Foundation staff. 

Any Civilians wandering into the town, especially with the intention of going to SCP-AHH are to be immediately given the proper amnestics to ensure they forget even knowing SCP-AHH exists. Afterwards they are to be escorted out of the town and to the nearest town immediately. Civilians who happen to be artists or writers are a much higher priority of amnestization and escorting out of the town. If any such civilian gets within a 100-meter radius of SCP-AHH they are to be executed immediately. Afterwards their body is to be escorted to the nearest Foundation site and incinerated, this applies to Foundation staff who get too close to SCP-AHH as well. There are no exceptions. 

SCP-AHH-1 instances are to be killed on sight with either Foundation Laser Rifles or the various UV traps placed around the town. If somehow a unique SCP-AHH-1 instance is found, they are to be contained as best as possible and sent to one of the various underground labs in the town. If this is not possible the AFA-3 units are then programmed to record everything they witness this SCP-AHH-1 instance capable of doing to fully understand it. 

Description: SCP-AHH is a lake located in the Foundation owned town of Bright Falls, Washington that acts as a Nexas point to an extradimensional pocket dimension. Within this pocket dimension is a god-like consciousness with the ability to bleed fiction and reality together. Because of its anomalous properties there is unfortunately no limit to what SCP-AHH can create, as it has been known to alter historical events, create entire Groups of Interest with people who never existed before, and even bring metaphysical monsters to life. 

As such SCP-AHH is a hazardous anomaly capable of causing an CK Class Reality Reconstruction Scenario. Though how it is able to become such a hazardous scenario is what has baffled Foundation staff for decades. SCP-AHH feeds off of the work of artists and writers, being able to not only grow stronger through their imagination but able to turn their works into reality. This can include bringing characters to life, making whatever happens in a story true, turning paintings into real world locations, and even giving each of these their own detailed history that automatically overrides any part of history that contradicts it. 

However as stated before SCP-AHH is a god like consciousness and has its own personality and desires. Its personality has had limited observation so the best the Foundation can say is that it's sadistic, clever, and very prideful. Furthermore SCP-AHH doesn't allow those who qualify as Artists and Writers to write freely, it will either possess them or manipulate them into creating whatever it wants. The entity is very malevolent, often trying to create vessels for itself so that it can leave the Pocket Dimension it is trapped in. This would lead to an HK Class Deific Subjugation Scenario as there would be nothing to stop SCP-AHH from altering the world however it wants and controlling the fate of all life on earth. 

Unfortunately, SCP-AHH quickly became aware of its isolated status due to the Foundation containing it. As such SCP-AHH has created anomalous monsters labeled as SCP-AHH-1 instances. SCP-AHH-1 instances are metaphysical entities of living darkness that can possess any living entity or non-living object. These entities obey the will of SCP-AHH-1 and try to destroy the town the Foundation created in hopes of allowing civilians to get near SCP-AHH again. SCP-AHH-1 instances and whatever they possess are technically immortal and even indestructible as no forms of physical damage can hurt them. Human beings tend to be what SCP-AHH-1 instances prefer to possess the most, this is another reason as to why no living Foundation staff are allowed anywhere close to SCP-AHH.

SCP-AHH-1 instances don't just possess as there are certain SCP-AHH-1 instances that are especially powerful enough to create their own physical bodies. Sometimes these artificial bodies take the form of shadow humans, shadow animals, black liquid, and even living natural disasters with the most common being tornadoes. Though even SCP-AHH-1 instances that can do this are not labeled differently as they share the same weaknesses and meta physiology as regular SCP-AHH-1 instances. Furthermore, their appearances are so rare that it's impossible to properly contain and therefore study them. 

SCP-AHH-1 instances can be weakened and even lose their ability to defect physical attacks when shined by light, the brighter the light the stronger the result. Once the dark barrier protection of the SCP-AHH-1 instances has broken, conventional weapons can be used to kill them. However, this process tends to take time and is tricky to enact, as such Foundation Laser Rifles are instead distributed to AFA-3 units guarding the town. Energy based attacks and even extremely bright light have been shown to kill SCP-AHH-1 instances quite easily. Furthermore, SCP-AHH-1 instances cannot survive in daylight as UV rays kill them instantly. It is for this reason UV light traps have been placed throughout the city. 

SCP-AHH was discovered in the early 1960's when an auteur filmmaker form Finland named Thomas Zane came to the original Bright Falls town surrounding SCP-AHH. As he started making new art, SCP-AHH was able to feed off his work to make certain aspects of his work come to life. Foundation satellites were able to detect the anomalous activity and as a response sent in Mobile Task Force Lambda-5 "White Rabbits" was deployed. 

Once SCP-AHH was discovered the Reality Fracture Dimensional Containment Field Engine, or an RFDCFE-20 for short, that was given to Lambda-5 was activated to create an energy field around SCP-AHH. The field was supposed to suppress SCP-AHH's abilities to the lake alone; unfortunately, the Foundation underestimated the reality warping abilities of SCP-AHH and the entire MTF units were wiped out or turned into powerful SCP-AHH-1 instances. 

Afterwards Joint Task Force Dionysus-4 "Flip the Script" was created consisting of units from MTF Beta-777, MTF Gamma-5, MTF Epsilon-6, MTF Iota-10, MTF Lambda-5, MTF Mu-13, MTF Omicron Rho, MTF Omega-0, MTF Omega-12, and MTF Omega-45. JTF Dionysus-4 was composed of 200 units, 20 coming from each respective original MTF unit. They used their various tactics and abilities to have all the citizens found, administered amnestics, and evacuated to different towns, all while fighting off SCP-AHH-1 instances wherever they appeared. The mission took five days and led to 44 casualties within JTF Dionysus-4. 

The town was originally fenced off with the cover story being an uncontainable gas leak flooded the city making it uninhabitable. However, as SCP-AHH-1 instances were getting created they started going beyond the town to attack and kidnap campers, hitchhikers, as well as inhabitants of other towns. Thus in 1970, the Foundation created AFA-3's programmed to think and act like humans, to be sent into the town disguised as regular civilians with their hidden mission being to observe and cull the SCP-AHH-1 instances. The fence and cover story remained to keep civilians out.

As more data was collected, eventually Foundation researchers were able to find the perfect way to contain SCP-AHH entirely thus Mobile Task Force Mnemosyne-Γ "The Darkest Minds hold the Strongest Pens" was created. The process to create beings powerful enough for MTF Mnemosyne-Γ took 20 years but finally in 1990 the MTF was deployed and managed to successfully suppress SCP-AHH's reality warping effects. Unfortunately, SCP-AHH-1 instances can still be created and leak out into our plane of existence. Furthermore, all previous reality alterations made by SCP-AHH cannot be reversed. To this day, the Foundation has no way to determine the full extent of SCP-AHH's damage on our reality. There is a working theory that SCP-AHH is responsible for creating several SCP's, Groups of Interest, and even The Reset itself but nothing has been confirmed.

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SCP: Horror Movie Files

[leonardalphachurch]

ACTUALLY FUCK season 19 alpha and epsilon both had six seasons of the show under their belt but now epsilons going to have a seventh ;_;

[vernonverse]

🏛️ THE GREEKS SERIES | SEVENTEEN 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY ESPECIAL

🎓 Welcome to Sigma Veta Tau (SVT), the most notorious, chaotic, and secretly romantic fraternity on campus. Each of these 13 stories dives into the lives of SVT's finest as they navigate friendship, heartbreak, and new beginnings.

━ All stories are in the same universe but can be read as standalones. 🕮 Format: SMAUs & written scenes (drabbles, letters, articles, etc.) 🕮 Taglist: Fill the application to be a member.  🕮 Status: ongoing. 🕮 Genre: College AU, Frat!SVT, Romance, Humor, SMAU. 🔞 Certain content are restricted to 18+ upperclassmen. Underclassmen and minors are kindly requested to refrain from accessing materials beyond the Restricted Access Cabinet.

🏛️ THE BROTHERS OF SIGMA VETA TAU ↓

📓Call It What You Want — Choi Seungcheol 📝 Genre: Forbidden Love/Rivals to Lovers ❤️‍🔥 At Carat University, a long-standing rivalry has simmered for years between two Greek houses: Sigma Veta Tau and Delta Kappa Epsilon. Choi Seungcheol, the charming and confident frat president, is the face of Sigma Veta Tau, while you, a sharp-tongued women’s rights activist, lead the powerhouse sorority across the street. You’ve been at odds for as long as you can remember, total opposites who can’t stand each other... or so you think. 📅 Drop date: 6/2 📎 [read here]

📓 Point of No Return — Yoon Jeonghan 📝 Genre: Brother’s Best Friend/Enemies to Lovers 🗞️ As a journalism major, your latest assignment is to write a feature on SVT: what kept the fraternity alive for 100 years and what makes it different. You expect your brother, the president, to help. Instead, he volunteers Jeonghan, his annoying, smug best friend. You’ve never liked him, and he’s made it clear the feeling is mutual. But being forced together—interviews, frat events, late-night writing sessions—makes it harder to deny what’s always been there. And now? You’ve reached a point you’re not sure you want to return. 📅 Drop date: 6/4 📎 [read here]

📓 Just Might Be Yours — Hong Joshua 📝 Genre: Good Boy x Bad Girl 📚 Joshua is the quiet, clean-cut finance major with the perfect GPA and an even more perfect reputation. You’re the swim team’s infamous rule-breaker, and unless you pass econ, you’re off the team. So now you’re stuck with him as your tutor. Maybe the golden boy isn’t so untouchable after all. And maybe, just maybe—he’s been paying attention to you, too. 📅 Drop date: TBA 📎 [read here]

📓 A Little Bit Dramatic — Wen Junhui 📝 Genre: Fake dating/Theater Co-Stars 🎭 You’re cast as Juliet Capulet. Jun, the charming Sigma Veta Tau actor who never takes anything seriously, is your Romeo Montague. When the director asks you both to work on your “real chemistry,” and rumors start to swirl around campus, you both decide to lean into the story—onstage and off. 📅 Drop date: TBA 📎 [read here]

📓 Bringing Up, Baby — Kwon Soonyoung 📝 Genre: Exes to lovers/Dance Rivals 👯‍♀️ You were childhood best friends—neighbors, partners in every dance competition, and later, high school sweethearts. But before university, something fractured, and you broke up without a word. Years later, you’re a rising star from a rival university fifteen minutes from his. And now you're forced to work together to choreograph a local middle school presentation and neither of you is ready to admit the past isn’t as buried as you’d like to believe. 📅 Drop date: TBA 📎 [read here]

📓 Mr. Always Wins — Jeon Wonwoo 📝 Genre: Academic Rivals 🎓 You and Wonwoo have been neck-and-neck for top of the class since freshman year—always trying to outscore each other, always competing for the top spot. You hate his smug face. He hates your color-coded notes. When a major research project pairs you up, the stakes are higher than ever; this one might determine not just academic validation, but future career paths. 📅 Drop date: TBA 📎 [read here]

📓 The Song Inside Of Me — Lee Jihoon 📝 Genre: Friends to lovers 🎧 Jihoon is used to control every aspect of his life. But when he overhears someone singing in the empty campus music hall he’s obsessed with the voice. Who is it? He searches everywhere, convinced it’s a stranger, unaware that the voice haunting his thoughts belongs to his very own best friend. 📅 Drop date: TBA 📎 [read here]

📓 Through Your Eyes — Xu Minghao 📝 Genre: Artist x Cynical/Strangers to lovers 🎨 Since childhood, you’ve never believed in love. Xu Minghao, a reclusive art student, believes in it fiercely. Desperate for money, you sign up to be one of the models for the university's art class, which leads to you being assigned to be the girl he will paint for his final project, strictly professional. But the way he sees you, sketches you, understands you… it starts to chip away at everything you thought was true. 📅 Drop date: TBA 📎 [read here]

📓 Tell Me You Don't Want My Kiss — Kim Mingyu 📝 Genre: Friends with Benefits 🩺 You’re a busy pre-med student who sets up a seemingly perfect arrangement when you offer your best friend Mingyu a relationship with one rule: no strings attached. But when a fling becomes a thing, can sex friends stay best friends? 📅 Drop date: TBA 📎 [read here]

📓 Come As You Are — Lee Seokmin 📝 Genre: Grumpy x Sunshine 🌞 You didn’t come to this school to make friends—you just want to keep your head down and graduate. But Lee Seokmin, the radiant upperclassman everyone adores, has other plans. He’s all bright smiles and boundless energy, determined to make you feel at home. Everyone sees him as the campus sweetheart. But you’re the only one he sees. 📅 Drop date: TBA 📎 [read here]

📓 Match Point — Boo Seungkwan 📝 Genre: Enemies to Lovers/Rival Volleyball Captains 🏐 You’re the captain of the women’s volleyball team. He’s the captain of the men’s. Your rivalry is legendary—trash talk, sabotage, and a never-ending scoreboard of who has more wins. One day, you make it official: whoever ends the season with more wins has to do anything the other says. 📅 Drop date: TBA 📎 [read here]

📓 Now and Then — Chwe Hansol 📝 Genre: Childhood Best Friends to Lovers 💔 You and Hansol have always been inseparable. That was until something happened two weeks ago that ruined everything. Now, you’re stuck in an awkward limbo, trying to fix what’s broken, surrounded by friends desperate to know the truth. But how do you mend a friendship when the only way forward is to admit the one truth you’ve been avoiding your entire lives? 📅 Drop date: TBA 📎 [read here]

📓 Out of My Limit — Lee Chan 📝 Genre: Boyfriend’s best friend 🫧Your last boyfriend was a nightmare—lying, cheating, breaking promises. Chan, his best friend, has always watched from the sidelines, quietly in love with you and wishing you’d see him instead. After the breakup, you start leaning on Chan more than you expected. And suddenly, the friend you never noticed becomes the only one who truly understands you. 📅 Drop date: TBA 📎 [read here]

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[ydotome]

Epsilon (エプシロン) - Pluto - Episode 6

[dontforcemetologin]

VERY rough sketch of an MTF agent, of “Village Idiots”

hhhhhhhhh if I get 20 notes I’ll finish it I suppose

mostly made the drawing for my brother though.

I’m gonna be drawing Gears next (likely)

[badlycroppedpuppy]

my scp guy again

[sugarcoatedcherry]

i laid on my back, disregarded the 3d and relaxed. i knew that I'm already pure consciousness, and my 3rd is just my past state. now that my eyes are closed, i focused on the back of my eyelids. i wasn't waiting. i knew i was pure consciousness, im not waiting for anything to happen. then i fell asleep and i didn't actually woke up to the void. (i know i shouldn't be saying this and affirm otherwise) do you know why? thank you. and the past days, when i relax and let my thoughts wander, daydream or affirm, then i fell asleep, i don't wake up in the void. i wonder what's wrong. (tho i know i should know im doing everything perfectly). can i be your 🫀 anon?

I have a LOA tip for you. i believe that everytime there's a "failed" attempt, you are not failing at your manifestation, you're failing to become the person who already has their manifestation. and that comes down to this question. who are you identifying as when it comes to void? someone who struggles? someone who finds it hard to get to void? someone who does everything right but still can't enter void? or someone who doesn't have to do shit but enters void whenever they close their eyes?

now I'll give you a non-conscious manifestation tip. before you fall asleep, meditate. practice LD. I have found it much easier to enter the phase state after 4-6 hours as compared to entering while falling asleep. play epsilon or theta waves. it's important to mention you don't need all these.

all that's required is for you to sustain the sweet spot of being between falling asleep and being awake. tether here for as long as you can. this is the secret. meditation helps you achieve this.

have an anchor. anchor is anything that helps you concentrate when you are about to plunge into slumberland. it could be focusing on the blackness, or focusing on your breathing rhythm, or counting numbers. it can also be affirming.

practice this anchor every time you meditate. meditate 2x a day. especially when you catch yourself a bit tired ( eg- after a heavy meal).

while meditating on an anchor, you have to intend to enter void. you have to believe you'll relax and you'll enter void thereafter.

you can be my🫀anon!

[inspired-lesson-plans]

Math, grade 7, Ratios and Proportional Relationships 7.RP.A.3: Use proportional relationships to solve multistep ratio and percent problems. Examples: simple interest, tax, markups and markdowns, gratuities and commissions, fees, percent increase and decrease, percent error.

Essential Question: How can basic calculations of percent change influence major world events?

Do Now: Calculate the percent increase or decrease in each of the following equations. x = (28 - 17.9)/28 x = (41.5 - 57.7)/57.7

Class Discussion: Remind students about how to perform basic calculations of increase/decrease factors. Ask them whether this calculation would be more complicated if the quantities were dollars instead of just numbers (answer: no). Ask them whether this calculation would be more complicated if the quantities were billions of dollars instead of just dollars (answer: no). Show students that they just performed the exact same calculations that Donald Trump did in order to decide what tariffs should be put upon Indonesia and Thailand, respectively.

Finally, ask students whether important global trade decisions should be calculated with 7th grade math skills, or if perhaps this is insufficient given the severe consequences that could arise from such a dunning-kruger error.

Direct Instruction: Explain what a Dunning-Kruger error is, if for no other reason than to communicate how absolutely maddening has it is for legitimate experts who have dedicated their lives to nudging fiscal policy in the right direction and then watch as their president makes the worst decision possible on purpose.

Take a moment to explain the difference between an import and an export, so that students understand what these billions of dollars actually mean in the real world. Feel free to call out anyone who has ever questioned whether or not they would ever use this kind of math in the real world. Show them that it's happening right now, and make sure they understand how terrifying that is.

Acknowledge the variables: x: total exports from US to country i m: total imports to US from country i tau (τ): calculated % tariff on all imports to US from country i epsilon (ε): elasticity phi (φ): passthrough

Ask students what they think elasticity and passthrough mean, then show students this passage from ustr.gov:

Parameter Selection To calculate reciprocal tariffs, import and export data from the U.S. Census Bureau for 2024. Parameter values for ε and φ were selected. The price elasticity of import demand, ε, was set at 4. Recent evidence suggests the elasticity is near 2 in the long run (Boehm et al., 2023), but estimates of the elasticity vary. To be conservative, studies that find higher elasticities near 3-4 (e.g., Broda and Weinstein 2006; Simonovska and Waugh 2014; Soderbery 2018) were drawn on. The elasticity of import prices with respect to tariffs, φ, is 0.25. The recent experience with U.S. tariffs on China has demonstrated that tariff passthrough to retail prices was low (Cavallo et al, 2021).

Ask students if this clarified anything about what elasticity and passthrough mean. Most will say "no", but if anyone points out that multiplying 4 by 0.25 cancels them both out, reward them. That student is correct, because elasticity and passthrough have been arbitrarily assigned so as to make this calculation so simple that even Donald Trump can understand it.

Modeled Learning: Show how to apply these tariffs to popular imports such as raw coffee beans. For example, the USDA report of coffee imports from 2024 (page 6) shows that the vast majority of raw coffee is imported from Brazil.

A simple search with Perplexity.ai tells us that in 2024, imports (m) = $42.3 billion and exports (x) = $49.7 billion, so the reciprocal tariff would be (x-m)/m = (49.7-42.3)/42.3 = 17.5%.

Thus, all coffee imports from Brazil will automatically be 17.5% more expensive.

Be sure to highlight that this is happening to every country in the world, even those with total populations less than 1000.

Higher Order Learning:

Students should consider the following facts:

There is very little territory within the United States that can grow coffee.

Almost all coffee in the world is grown within what is called "The Global South", where the climate is warm and the labor is cheap.

The US exports significantly more (sometimes vastly more) to countries in the Global South than we import from them.

Students should then answer the following questions:

What will this universal tariff calculation do to the price of coffee?

Is there any way that US coffee companies can import the same amount of coffee as before without passing on the cost to consumers? Why or why not?

Do you think this tariff program will equalize imports and exports between the US and other countries? What other impacts could it have, good or bad, across the world?

[major-comet]

i think the thing that's so interesting to me about locus and sharkface as counterparts to wash and carolina is that they're not just simple foils that compliment/contrast each other.

they're like, their ghosts of christmas yet to come. making wash and carolina face off against people who they both came very close to being, and only didn't because the reds and blues showed them a better way. they made good enough choices to change their future, and avoided that fate. and conversely - and they really nail it home with wash/locus in particular, but wash and lina both serve as reminders of what locus and sharkface perhaps could have been had things turned out just a bit differently. if locus had ever decided to question felix and his general orders, if sharkface had made peace with the loss of his friends and laid down his quest for vengeance.

wash stopped blindly following orders and learned to put his faith in other people - namely by trusting the reds and blues when they offered him church's armor and a place on the team to hide from the UNSC. if he hadn't, it's very likely he would have gone back to jail and potentially ended up on the same prison transport that felix and locus found sharkface and price on - we’ll assume for the sake of this hypothetical that the rest of the reds and blues still made it to chorus without him. still as cold and calculating as he was as recovery one before the reds and blues softened him, but with a deeper anger like we saw in 7-8. mad at the reds and blues for not just returning epsilon and getting him into this mess, furious at carolina for showing back up now, after all this time - after the meta has been dealt with, after all their friends are dead. showing again, as he did in 7-8, that he’s willing to do whatever it takes to earn his freedom again, no matter the cost.

carolina found some sense of peace with everything that happened to her and the other freelancers, and accepted that nothing she did to her father would bring them back or make it right - she'd only be left hollow, knowing that he could be added to the list of people whose blood she had on her hands, and that certainly wouldn't make it better. with the director out of the way before that peace had been made, she wouldn’t have known what to do with herself - she’d just be aimless, and it would be even harder to find rest than it was previously. revenge is a common theme in carolina's arcs, and while I wish they had maybe eased up on it a bit as the show went on, I still really like how it's reflected back at her in season 13. and part of what's interesting about sharkface is that he's honestly kind of epsilon's foil, too - partially just by virtue of being with carolina all-throughout season 13, but let us not forget that epsilon is easily motivated by revenge as well.

obviously wash and carolina have aspects to them that make locus and sharkface work as counterparts to the both of them - carolina certainly knows what it's like to blindly follow orders, and wash absolutely knows what it's like to get overwhelmed by a desire for revenge. but the foil pairings we did get are parallels to what I would call their main journeys across the story arcs we meet them in - wash with 6-8, and carolina with 9-10 (but mostly 10)

and all of this is particularly fascinating to me because that's not the case with felix and tucker. felix and tucker are more classic general foils. they fucking hate each other, and contrast each other well and even compliment each other with some of their similarities. but never when watching the chorus trilogy do i ever get the sense that if things had gone just slightly differently, they could have been each other.

part of what I always find so intriguing about thinking of evil mirror characters (a la star trek) is trying to envision what went differently to make the evil versions of the characters turn out that way. but in imagining those evil versions of wash and carolina, we don't have to wonder - the show makes it very clear to us that they'd have ended up like locus and sharkface.