#foundations of physics

[nekofaust]

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[lizzybeeee]

Who wants to bet that Anders was planned to be in that post-credit's Executor cutscene montage but they changed it to Bartrand when they realized it would go over real badly with everyone?

[mollysunder]

Shimmer & The Glorious Evolution: A Love Story

We can see how a specialized high quality strain of Rio's shimmer can alter the biology of living organisms to make users produce their own shimmer, as is the case with Jinx. So what will happen now that Rio's specialized shimmer has been exposed to an artificial life form, i.e. the hexcore?

What Has the Hexcore Done Without Shimmer?

Prior to the hexcore's exposure to shimmer infused blood we've only seen it capable of releasing short bursts of massive energy when Viktor experiments with it.

When exposed to human blood the hexcore reacted by "consuming" a drop of it. The blood effected the entire magical dimension the hexcore connects to by turning it to a shade of purple similar to the plants found in Singed's cave.

Later we see that this newly blood infused hexcore's magic turned purple and is able to not only react to organic matter such as plants, but stimulate their growth in turn (not for long of course). The affected plants also take on the purple tinge similar to the hexcore's magic.

What Have We Seen the Shimmered Hexcore Do So Far?

Once Viktor exposed the hexcore to his shimmer infused blood it was capable of producing a longer lasting stable state with its test subject twice. Initially, what exactly happened to Viktor's leg was up to interpretation, but later on animators in Bridging the Rift confirmed that Viktor's new leg and hand are made of metal.

This means that the hexcore took Viktor's flesh and shimmer infused blood (more than the first time) and exchanged it for an arcane/shimmer configured metalic replacement. His skin is gone and we're looking at what his muscle has been converted to.

The transmutation of Viktor's hand and leg into metal could have only been facilitated through the use of shimmer. It was likely the remaining shimmer in Viktor's system that prevented him from being absorbed into the hexcore. Without a sufficient amount of shimmer, a regular human hand does not equal a shimmerized arcane metalic hand. The flesh, bone, and blood of an entire adult woman and a pitance of shimmer is worth the hand it provides.

What Will Happen Next Season?

The further the hexcore directly interfaces with organic matter the more similar it becomes in appearance and ability to shimmer. Where it improves health and strength at increasing biological costs. Once Viktor realizes that he's missing the "Inspiration" rune, the rune matrix will finally be complete and reach a "stable" state.

A "stable" state could mean the hexcore could reliably interact with and alter organic matter like Rio's shimmer is capable of. Based on the notes Sky left behind, her research focused on plant biology. In theory, a "perfect" hexcore could not only stimulate plant life to grow impressively, they could be durable enough to survive in extreme environments like Zaun.

While there is evidence that shimmer and its byproducts can enhance plant growth, especially in Zaun, there is a catch. Any plant affected by a hexcore corrupted by Rio's specialized shimmer would be altered in a way that makes them capable of being producing shimmer independently.

Just from Viktor's experiment with a hexcore exposed to a single drop of blood, the plants began to glow purple like the plants Rio would eat and break down into shimmer. Except, like Jinx the hexcore would pass down its own strain to the plant subjects that's compatible with the hexcore's "exchange" requirements.

But why would Viktor want to create plants capable of producing MORE shimmer for Zaun. Simple! Without shimmer you can't get... The Glorious Evolution. It's already been mentioned that Viktor's limbs have become metal, and to make his transformation complete he'll need more shimmer. For others to become like him, he needs more shimmer.

but...

Who Would Be Willing to Follow the Herald's Path?

Shimmer addicts like Huck and those who live in the sump with dying flesh and residual concentrations of shimmer in their bodies could be "healed" from their state of deterioration through the hexcore.

In Bridging the Rift we actually saw an unfinished clip of Viktor reaching his metalic hand to reach out and grab the face of a shimmer addict. Upon further inspection of the unidentified character's scars, we can guess this is Huck.

There's also the underlying culture of flesh sacrifice in Zaun, which is actually in the same vein as the Church of the Gloriously Evolved. In League, specifically through Camille's lore, the Church of the Gloriously Evolved actually exists outside of and likely before the Machine Herald came to the scene. The Church's roots even stretch into both Zaun & Piltover.

They believe that you must sacrifice something close and dear (like diseased flesh) with the faith that something better will take its place. Splinters of this organization likely made Silco an object of worship admiring his power and assuming the shimmer he brought was the miracle they sacrificed so much for already. Without Silco and his shimmer, Viktor and his hexcore would become the Church's new object of adoration as they bring shimmer AND immediate transmutation.

Finally, there's Sevika. In the tarot seen, Sevika drew a winning hand with a pair of card, Death and The Magician, that resemble Jinx and Viktor respectively. The scene may foreshadow that Jinx and Viktor will be the trump cards to win her Zaun's independence. But How will that work with Viktor?

You could argue that Sevika could bring Viktor in to repair her arm, but there's an entire industry backed up by a chembaron, Smeech, to fulfill that need. Viktor's going to need to bring something new to the table to be brought into the fold, and that could be shimmer infused plants and the "healing" properties of the hexcore. And I'm sure Sevika's pragmatic enough to know that for Zaun to survive Piltover's retaliation she'll need to bolster her resources in manpower and shimmer... lots of it.

Whether Sevika will be able to handle the cult of personality around the Machine Herald, especially if Jinx ends up siding him is a whole other discussion.

[crunchycrystals]

ok so like a lot of the stuff i've seen about the ending of painted devils seems to say "sad that vanja can't remember the lesson she learned throughout the book" but i'd argue she does. she knows that she's worthy of love, that the people around her care about her. it's just a bit harder to accept because of her trauma but she knows it. she leaves not because she thinks she's unworthy of love, but because she knows she has it but the system doesn't make it easy for people like her to love and be loved.

the system perpetuating poverty is the reason why she became a thief and now it refuses to let her forget that this is who she is. see kirkling (literally used as an example of what im talking about when vanja runs away), always unfairly harsh to vanja but immune to the consequences of her bias because she's retired. and now she loves someone who wants to be a prefect, someone who is going into that very system to try and improve it, but it's still the same thing. the loopholes are still there and one day someone worse will exploit it to ruin emeric's life, prevent him from saving others from her fate, and she cares about him and those girls like her too much to let that happen

the book says that it's one thing to know something but another thing to believe it. in the same vein, it's one thing to know what you want, it's one thing to know you are loved, believe you are loved, but it's a completely different thing to be allowed to pursue that want or love. vanja and emeric don't have that freedom. gisele didn't have that freedom until vanja broke the leadership system in minkja, but no one's breaking the system for vanja. not yet at least.

[savior-of-the-ink]

After a(n almost) full year, I can confidently say that science has been made and this is a canon event

[oddlydying]

I like rereading things that talk about iceberg on the wiki but my favorite contender of iceberg lore will probably be this on his personnel file

Yea. Me too Iceberg. Me too.

[heireign]

HER STRUGGLES WITH BODILY AUTONOMY + HEADCANON ( incest mentions, and grooming mentions )

the first thing to remember about it is that so much of the trauma surrounding it originates when she's still a child, it stems during a particularly difficult period during her formative years that started when she was only eleven going on twelve - and in the aftermath of the firing of otto hightower as hand, it had the opposite effect that her father wanted, and only worsened the questions and the concerns about the setting aside of her younger half brothers. aegon, who was about two at the time, and aemond who was a newborn, and it seemed to worsen the frigidity of which she was greeted by her stepmother and only increased her feeling of isolation within the confines of her own family. she had her ladies, of course, she was close with her ladies, she considered them like sisters, but - she was also well aware that they were reliant on her, their positions were determined by her own, and so was their success at court, which meant that ? it just could not be the same as having family of which she could be close to, because their jobs and their positions had to come first - despite the fact they were all of the nobility, they were still of a lesser class then she was, meaning, they could lose more then she could if she messed something up. she was always in their company, she was always with them, because she loved them. and the ease of that wholly platonic connection was comforting.

she struggled extremely with impostor syndrome. she knew, logically, that her father had made his choice - and nothing could unmake that decision beyond him, and he did not seem like he had any plans to do that, and he had fired his closest advisor in defending his choice and that was ? it assured her, for the moment. but she was never wholly comforted by it because she could hear the questions, she could hear alicent asking the questions and she knew they were right to, she knew her position was one that was wholly unsual and wholly new, and there were so many people, asking the same exact thing that amounted to why haven't you replaced her yet, you should have replaced her. why fire otto when he's right. for a child that ? it feels like everyone is making their feelings known on how much she's worth and how much she could be capable of, and deeming that it just isn't enough to amount for that break in precedent, she just isn't enough to allow for the setting aside of her brothers. and she can't quit. she can't say she does not wanna do this anymore, because her father wants her to do it, her father chose her, and she still wants to do it, despite everything. for herself, for her mother who died in attempting to give her father an heir, her being named was such an impossibility that when she was, she had to hold onto it. she had to fight for it. but when you break down a child's self esteem over the years and play on that one inner insecurity that she's been grappling with her entire life ( the notion that though she's loved, and cherished, she's not a boy, so she's fundamentally useless to her parents, despite the fact she knows they love her. she's not a boy, she can't fullfil that role her father needs a boy for ) and you start fortifying what you believe she lacks before she can even display what she can do, it starts building the foundations of what becomes a reoccuring issue later in her life which is the fact that people build her identity, people build her reputation out of lies and explicit rumors because they want to believe it, even if they know it isn't true. because it becomes that much easier to diminish and disregard her entirely when you believe the stories about her.

if you believe she so easily and so willingly ruined herself for her own pleasure, and was so reckless as to all of that - then how could she ever possibly be a competent queen ? ( incredibly misogynistic and blatantly false rhetoric but it was the exact same thing that she was dealing with being levvied against her at 14 ) the additional sexual aspect of it all that comes into play post the tourney of 111AC makes the period of time all the worse, and it exacerbates rhaenyra's already high levels of anxiety. it's absolutely terrifying for her because she knows exactly what everyone believing that would result in. and no matter how many times she denies it, it takes form anyway. it takes shape anyway; the idea that she's in some way sullied herself with mushroom, with daemon. that she took lessons with daemon to try and seduce criston and make him break his vows. that she's willing to disregard his chastity oath and wants that to be sullied as well. and all of these stories of that period are presented as possible fact, which means that they were repeated and believed. which means it hung over her, the notion that she could have given a blow job to the court fool, and was willing to spend months attempting to ' learn ' to seduce a sworn brother of the kingsguard. we're told that when allegedly daemon and rhaenyra were found in bed, that rhaenyra pleaded with viserys she was in love with him, and wanted to marry him. we're also told that when viserys was confronted with the story of blackwater bay, he refused to believe any of it until daemon confirmed the tale was true. i'm inclined to believe, due to criston cole's remainder at her side, and the fact he was at her side day and night, that it was the latter that happened, and daemon confirmed a fake story, to get her hand in marriage by claiming he had ruined her. the near complete gut of her reactions from the recording of these events, and the fact the events are conflicting so much so - it gives the reader the feeling that any of them could potentially be possible, and that was the exact sort of criticism she was being met with in person.

and everyone had an opinion. they're USED to talking about this girl, they're used to critiquing this girl by now. and never to her face, but she still hears it, because it's everywhere. she's the heir, and she's female, so of course she is going to be a continuous topic of conversation - she told herself she was used to it by now. but it feels like there's this version of her that exists that they've built out of nothing and that is serving as their template for how they judge her from then on out. she feels like there's no real chance to build herself up outside of it because that's what some people hear first about her. she feels like she can't, that she isn't in control of herself, because she feels in some way that she is guilty of what they're accusing her of, because people believe it - because they want to believe it, she feels guilty, even if she didn't do anything. she feels like she is ruined already before she even got to explore sex. she feels so genuinely flayed open about the prospect of sex, and sexuality that it doesn't feel like when she finally explores it it'll be intimate at all. it feels like it won't remain private, and that it'll be another source of derision and scorn even though she is likely going to be married at the time, and that's what is supposed to happen with one's husband. she hated the idea of a bedding, she's always hated the idea of a bedding ceremony, like it made her feel sick to consider the idea of the wedding's male guests undressing her, and the idea her losing her virginity would be a source of entertainment and amusement.

she did not feel like she could enjoy sex at all, she didn't think she should find pleasure in it because then... wouldn't that prove them right about her ? wouldn't that mean she's as worthy of disregard as they made it seem ? she knows its natural, she know its supposed to be and that makes her feel so wrong inside. it makes that feeling of shame and fear feel so wrong to her, because it makes her feel like they've won something and they've succeeding in taking something from her, in making the concept something that she needs to approach clinically or she's somehow diminishing herself. and she doesn't want to feel like that, she doesn't want to stay feeling like that. but she has no idea on how to start to unpack it and its like ? it's a fear that ends up blending into her fear of childbirth because she reckons with that fear of sex, and that feeling that a lack of intimacy is inevitable with her relationship with harwin strong, who she ends up siring children with fairly quickly after they start sleeping together and it's - part of her fear of childbirth is the helplessness of it. the fact that she can't control the vitrol that would no doubt come if she had a daughter first, the fact she can't control what or how her baby would be treated if she died, that she can't help if she ends up losing one and that she would be expected to try again because she needs an heir. she can't be sure of her baby's survival, and her mother's consistent tragedies make her vehemently afraid that loss is inevitable even though she knows logically, that that isn't the case.

[pastlivesandpurplepuppets]

I remember Speirs while we were at Toccoa,” veteran Joe Reed noted. “I remember him like it was yesterday. He was a competitor. Always competing…. I was in great shape and had a pretty easy time of running it. On one particular day, Speirs and I happened to be running Currahee at the same time,” recalled Reed. “I realized right away that Speirs wanted to race me. I kept looking back, and there he was. I got to the top and quickly proceeded back down the mountain. Speirs was still behind me. I crossed the finish line and felt great. Speirs followed a short time later, coughing and wheezing from his effort to keep up with me. After catching his breath, he gave me a respectful nod of his head and a smile, and went on his way. I’ll never forget that day.

~ Jared Frederick & Erik Dorr

[monigote001]

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[nayruwu]

heyy guys do u like my new pfp

if you don't interact she'll come to your room at 3am and kill your best friend

[abbies-fallout-stuff]

wooden shack foundation, my beloved

[colbullet]

Stupid class doodle

That's basically his personality

[stickyspeckledlight]

ive been using makeup for the first time since I've had some stuff where i need to look #fancy, but by god the concealer i use makes me look so pale lollllllllllllllllllllllllll

[iamthepulta]

*crawls onto dash like an axolotl*

i- i am alone. back home. writing time.

[laugtherhyena]

Akira and girlfriend/childhood friend that she bothers constantly (in a loving playful manner, of course)

[lipstickontheglass1985]

being an academic weapon is so hard when youre fucking stupid