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[manorinthewoods]

Miscellaneous ideas

I have a few documents in which I put a bunch of random ideas I have about various settings, along with the specific sources I got them from. My main settings are, unfortunately, very detailed and mostly based in my own mind, so I can't post the ideas I had for them. However, I do have some general ideas. I have decided to post them and see what happens (after reading Jenna Moran's blog and observing a similar style of posting there). I will not list the sources for now.

There's a lot, so the TL;DR is:

Biotech mind-control wires that have been used to take over the world, through the medium of a megacorporation that sells them

An alternate take on Deltarune's Dark Worlds

Alien elephants invade Earth; Earth elephants fight back

Warbreaker (the Sanderson novel)

Complicated society in the desert based around land=mana

Several brief concepts; debt confers power, fate deliberately throws important events at significant dates, and an odd deific disparity between siblings

Humans are tiny motes of God

Some justifications for fantasy concepts

God and Satan's love language is fighting over the fate of reality

Virtue > Sin

Technology is better than magic and that's why it's not sad the dragons died

We call beastmen "[beast][noun]" (ex: lion-man, catgirl, werewolf technically). Humans are also beastmen, being hybrids with a 'hu'.

Different kinds of monster bug

Nerve Wires

Somebody stupid invented the nerve wire. It wires your nerves. Nerve wires get into people and wire their brains to obey the artist of the nerve wire. The nerve wires also seek methods of reproducing and spreading. Nerve wires are able to use the intelligence of their hosts by redirecting the host's motives to include the spread of nerve wires (along with the obedience to the original nerve wire artist). This has the side effect of many mutant nerve wire strains. Main problem with nerve wires: they require surgery to spread, and are very noticeable since they spread through all nerves (and cannot be removed). Thus, nerve wired folks invented several varieties of nerve wire, such as the following:

Battlewire: This nerve wire is still a nerve wire, but has the added property of being generally useful for combat. It heightens senses and deadens pain and is quite convenient for soldiers. It even alleviates the symptoms of PTSD, and makes one more athletic! There is of course the problem that you lose your free will, because it's a nerve wire.

Hivewire: Hivewires are installed with a relatively large 'hive cortex' or 'hive lobe' computer into the brain, which is set somewhat stealthily into the neck. It is used to connect together everyone with the hivewire into one semi-unified hive. Some individuality is maintained due to the issues with broadcasting the entirety of one's thoughts, but the unity is strong. This wire is surprisingly popular, although banned by paranoid governments the world over.

Joywire: The joywire is designed simply to give intense joy to the person who has it. They are happy, forever. The joywire can be suppressed when needed but usually forms a full addiction immediately.

Artwire: This joywire was made for artists and the cultured. Artwired individuals have massively increased aural, visual, olfactory, and gustatory sensory ranges. They can see seven basic colors and into the infrared and ultraviolet ranges. It has a lot of configurability, and was taken up by a vast number of artists due to its emotional tuning allowing the wired to attack writer's block on a neurotransmittor level.

Spywire: The spywire is a spying device. It records important sensory inputs and broadcasts them when able. Its redirection of motives is quite honed, such that the spywired individual may not even realise they are spywired. It's very useful for torture, because spywires had their control routine hijacked by the intelligence service which invented them (America's, Russia's, or China's, most likely), making the spywired individual also loyal to whoever wired them. This means interrogation is very easy.

The guy who invented nerve wires is making stonks, because nerve wiring is a highly profitable industry. People love the wires. The Orwellianness doesn't really matter to them, what with the power of the marketing engine. You see, it is easiest to mind control people when they want it.

Fathomless Depths

Most people in the continent have never seen the sea, or the islands at the edge of the continent. The ocean is feared by many. It is thought to be a dangerous darkness, tempestuous and capricious. But some live there anyway.

Most people in the continent refuse to believe that the landmass is sinking. They say it’s geologically impossible. They say the seas cannot rise. They say that the sea is not magical or anything of the sort. It’s dangerous, for purely mundane reason.

Most people in the continent are, of course, utterly wrong.

At the very edges of the land, when it meets the sea, the waters flow farther than they ever did before. And in their depths, in the sunken isles that once dotted the coast, there are secrets.

Under the waves, the world is much different. Sunken islands become whole kingdoms, or grand cities, or enormous underwater ruins. In the depths, there are whole worlds, Deep Realms waiting to be explored.

Intrepid teenagers, of course, become the explorers. There’s much fun to be had in the deep. But dive too far, and you risk yourself. The abyssal depths of the water are inhuman, and the harmless fantasies soon warp into much more eldritch affairs. Atlantean cities, in their very darkest roots, are not fantastical dreams, like they are closer to the light. They’re quite a bit more like nightmares.

Elephant Warriors From Another Planet

On a stolen spaceship they arrived, bright teal elephants from outer space. They had two eye-stalks, and their skin was smooth, but they were unmistakably elephants. Their spaceship crashed and was confiscated, and they soon settled into the world.

The grey elephants of our world, in seeing the aliens, immediately set to work, preparing weapons and defenses. The aliens came for war, and the earthlings would respond. The humans (once our elephants figured out how to talk to them) were instructed to stay well clear.

Over the course of centuries, the elephants on both sides raced through the levels of technology. War is a powerful driver of science. By the time humans had fled the planet and left it to the elephants (the humans having reverse-engineered the alien craft), the elephants themselves had begun industrial warfare and had covered the world.

Soul Magery

In this setting, everyone has 1 soul when born. This provides minor magic. To get more, you must steal someone else’s - they must be slain in violent battle, specifically, with the killed being otherwise healthy. This means that mages are heavily tied to the army and can often be found drinking souls on bloody battlefields (wars are really bloody and filled with war crime because any death - even a civilian’s - is power).

There is a sect of monks who are strong but do not kill or take souls. This restriction tightened over time - the original monk merely wished to learn how to be magically efficient and to prove killing was not needed, but over time it has become religious pacifism.

The Djinni Of The Arcane Desert

The Djinni (name pending) live in a desert with extremely scarce normal resources. There aren’t even any cowrie shells or anything. However, they are able to survive due to being masters of magic.

Mana can be physically derived from land, either solely in the Arcane Desert (or due to a specific Djinni method of land-cultivation) or in the whole world. Significant quantities of mana can be drawn even from small areas of land (as in, 1 m^2 or somesuch), but mana itself cannot be transferred between persons, for some reason. (Maybe the Djinni just don’t know how.)

In terms of general theming, fantasy deserts are almost always themed after either Arabian trappings or Egyptian trappings. In this case, they’re faux-Arabs. (Faux-Islam not necessarily included.)

The (fantasy-)traditional genies are a different thing from the Djinni. Djinni are either part-genie, actual genies, or they were influenced heavily by genies when they were forming in the desert. Whatever the case, they use arcane contract law for most of their stuff, in a similar way to genies and/or demons.

The Djinni live at a low population density relative to their territory. Said territory is nearly unnavigable, as Djinni often migrate their land holdings off of the planetary surface, rendering the place a dimensional nightmare with extraordinarily thin physical laws regarding space. In the Djinni subspace, use of Silk Roads (arcane fast-travel roads made of physical silk, possibly in carpet form) permits the Djinni to travel between their pocket dimensions very easily. This Djinni subspace is very fluid outside the bounds of a Djinni’s land holdings.

The Djinni may be able to synthesise new, functional land (i.e. you can draw mana from it), in a method that is difficult but possible. They have used this to slowly build up personal pocket dimensions.

The Djinni probably have the ability to sculpt held land to a significant degree if they have enough time.

The arcane contract law of the Arcane Desert is effectively an automatically-operating legal system. There's no court for arbitration of disputes, but the book of laws is both available and unchanging. This has the side effect that land may occasionally pass through the convoluted contract laws and inherit in bizarre ways (owned land of the Arcane Desert is tied to its owner in an immediately identifiable form), which can also serve as an immediate notification that someone has died. Djinni can write wills to entail certain things to certain people, and there’s no rules on what might be in a will - they can write incredibly convoluted procedures for their death, although if the procedure is contradictory, unclear, nonsensical (‘I leave the entirety of my lands to my child’ - has no children), or otherwise impossible for the arcane contract law to interpret, the contract law defaults to inheriting along family lines. (If you are the only living person in your family, and have no living relatives - somehow - the Law will assign yours possessions to the nearest person. If they are an inadequate inheritor - generally, simply unable to use whatever they inherited - then the Law will instead inherit the contents of your person to an Angel of the Law. This means nobody will ever see that land again.)

Items other than land may be entailed in the contract laws. They follow roughly the same properties as the land, which means that if your uncle wrote his attic and its contents to you in his will, when he dies, your house will spontaneously gain an attic with your uncle's various effects in it. (This has a side effect of allowing magical pocket-dimension item storage, like a Bag of Holding but it runs on bureaucracy.)

Very Brief Concept

Game or world in which debts make you stronger. The more debts you have, the more powerful you become. Debts carry negatives but also the positive of more power. So, the more and bigger debts you have, the more your powers are, but you also get a lot of hefty issues.

(This was inspired by hearing 'DEX', the stat, as 'debt'.)

Another Very Brief Concept

Every 100 years, Fate causes something of great importance to happen. Every 1000 years, something even more important. This enables accurate-to-the-year timekeeping across the entire world and handily justifies all of these convenient timings of major events in fantasy.

Yet Another Very Brief Concept

Two full-blooded siblings. One’s a demigod, born to a human and a god. The other is a full god, born to two gods, because the human parent ascended to godhood between the two children’s births.

Pieces of God

Two possibilities:

God’s soul was shattered into every human soul to ever exist. When a human dies, their soul goes to the afterlife, which consists of every other dead human up to that point. Thus, at the end of time, when every human has died, God will be fully reformed. Magic comes from God, so the more complete God’s soul is, the stronger magic is - thus, the closer to the apocalypse you are, the more powerful magic becomes.

God’s soul was shattered, creating human souls. Humans can rekindle their soul fragments, becoming new gods by using their own souls as seeds. For some reason, this requires a sacrifice of someone else’s soul, though.

Justifications for Environment-Themed Animals and Numerous Humanoid Species/Subspecies

Over generations, environmental magic inserts itself into the blood of animals in an environment, attuning them to the local area. This results in hyper-fast evolution. You can even say that, in a world recently made, differences in how attuned animals are to their environment are merely because of how long they’ve spent there, and that animals are still presently in the process of becoming further aligned with their local area - that evolution is so rapid that the only way to justify current situations is for the world to be only a few millenia old at most, with many animals and regions even more recent than that.

Humans exhibit this property, but it’s much more extreme - human lifestyles alter their shapes. So, for example, humans who spent their lives tunneling through mountains adapted to mining lifestyles and became dwarves, with some dwarves more mountainy than others - some eat rocks while others hunt. And humans who did a lot of magic and ate good rice became elves, who proliferated and further adapted to new environments, such that all the races of the world can be measured in a cladogram with evolution and extinction being rapid and speciation occurring within only a century or two.

Dualistic Theist Take on Abrahamic Myth (based on Wild Misunderstandings of Gnosticism)

Entities in the various spheres of deism always come in pairs, because this is the sublime form of the divine, needed to achieve true gnosis and spiritual bliss. In opposition or brotherhood they are united and thus inseparable. So when you pray to Sophia, goddess of wisdom, you are simultaneously praying to Jesus, god of faith. Something along those lines.

In the heavenly Pleroma, these dualities dance. For some, it is a dreamlike flow through holy space, calmly circling each other as they double-helix through the cosmos. For others, it is energetic, great wars or romances playing out in eternity upon eternity. 

There are only two divergences from this model:

A trinity of gods represent outcasts, those who don’t fit into standardised models, and also trinities in general. Naturally, this trinity is also a polycule.

Although there’s a muse/artist pair, there’s also the solitary smith god, who represents a lot of regular concepts as well as a lot relating to isolation, solitude, and oneness, especially fortuitous solitude (ie a solitude that does not destroy you).

Even capital-G God fits this model! God and the Satan-figure are part of a pair, inseparable yet fundamentally opposed. God wants Satan to be part of the whole cosmos, the necessary evil to permit good. Satan wants to destroy all things so that only himself and God will remain.

Virtue Is More Powerful Than Sin

Every Virtue counters two Sins, because Virtues are innately more powerful than Sins.

The Virtue of Kindness counters:

Malice

Wrath

The Virtue of Temperance counters:

Gluttony

Lust

The Virtue of Charity counters:

Envy

Greed

The Virtue of Humility counters:

Pride

Sloth

Technology Is Better Than Magic

Magic is fickle and weak. Time and time again it has proven to eternally be in a downward spiral, the magic of older days always exceeding that of the new. To become a magician requires intense study, rendering the power inaccessible to the humble folk, and the power itself often drives its wielders to megalomania. Their spells may only function for them, or in their environment, and thus every spell recovered from the past must be laboriously corrected to account for the newer world. And only a select few even have the potential to attune to it in the first place, with great power striking randomly, and often, the unworthy.

Technology, on the other hand? It is reliable. Its function is understandable. It remains the same regardless of the world around it. Technology can be built upon, advanced, and instead of study being turned to an endless treadmill of repairing what was lost, it can develop, create better technology. Technology is loops, cause and effect, growth. It makes things better, fundamentally, in a way magic cannot. And it allows for a new age to be greater than the old. And it allows for all to wield it, no matter how slight, no matter how unlucky. And it can rise eternal, for the wheel turns when the wand snaps.

Logical Conclusion of Beast Man Preponderance

There are an extraordinary number of beast men. Take an animal, add ‘man’ to it. In a world split between beasts and humans, it would make more sense if humans were themselves beast men. Rationalisation wouldn’t be as necessary if gods were not beast men, but if they are, or are at least partially beast men, then you get the idea...

...that there must be some beast, some ‘hu’, which combines with men to produce humans. Humans would, at best, be slightly more pure on the ‘man’ end than most beast men.

What is a ‘hu’? Well, it must be an animal of some known kind. Not a monkey, but similar. Probably lives in a jungle or savannah. Probably small, weak, R-selected. Also most likely hairless.

Monstrous Insect Breeds

Master 

The central bloodline. The bloodline of the Empress takes many forms, most highly arcane, and a great number not even vaguely insectoid. It centers around the enormous city-hive body of the Empress herself; from its great brooding pits spew forth the other bloodlines.

New bloodlines are forged in the Empress’ Trial Chambers, a planet-sized pocket dimension with its only gate in the bowels of the Empress. They fight endlessly, swarming and overwhelming the world, children supplanting their parents, parents devouring their children, on and on through the generations. Every hundred years, the Empress culls the greatest bloodlines and wipes the slate clean, resetting all else as if it never were. (The dimension wouldn’t be stable otherwise - after a couple hundred years it tends to decay.)

Teratoma

A bloodline of grevious mistakes. The Empress’ discards, the Teratoma insects barely look such. Due to cascading genetic failure, they have collapsed to a defiled form, horrific amalgams of pus, slime, flesh, and blood. Though weak in innumerable ways, they’re nearly impossible to kill, and they are of such resplendent debasedness that even their touch will spread their horrible mutation to their target, causing them to dissolve into another cancerous mass.

Teratoma hives usually don’t grow too far, because they can’t hunt (so they grow very slowly) and the large ones amalgamate into a fleshmass the Empress personally eradicates. Alas, seedling cancers tend to remain, as the Teratoma do not starve, or die, only grow.

Plagueeater

The Empress’ favorite offspring, the Plagueeaters developed a perfection of the bodily fluids while in the Trial Chambers. They have mastered rot and disease, cultivating them towards endless evolution of their own bodies. They continually take newer and greater shapes, and their favorite foes they implant with their toxic blood, ensuring that a piece of the Plagueeaters will always be with them, making them evolve and evolve just as the hive does until they see the light and rejoin the hive.

Ork

A bloodline of violence, these are unfavored by the Empress. They bear vague humanoid form, but are primarily insect, and have little intelligence other than to fight. Even clothing is beyond their intelligence.

Titan

A bloodline that struck upon the adaptations that allow creatures of titanic size to live. They have become symbiotic with a lesser hive which has partially taken to becoming internal elements, analogous to things such as immune system cells and digestive systems, and now fully fills them with bizarre flora and fauna.

Alternatively, an insect somehow obtained godlike power, and without the intelligence to hone it, grew to rival the size of mountains. A city and hive grew on its back, feeding off its bile and waste, and eventually it found its way to a Monarch god, with whom it produced several thousand eggs. Most of these colossal spawn were killed by ambitious hunters or by the whims of fate, but time after time they survived, roaming the world as hybrids of stone, wood, and chitin.

Stoneshell

This bloodline eats and incorporates stone. Fearsome and durable with jaws of stone and iron, the Empress has severely damaged their ability to produce offspring in order to prevent them leveling the earth into perfect smoothness.

Acid

This bloodline conquered its iteraton of the Trial Chambers by toxifying the world until nothing else could survive. Their vehement adaptations are of little use even to them, save as weapons to eradicate everything else out of spite before they themselves starve. They can destroy habitats easily, as they spread acid, bile, and toxic waste everywhere until only warped, diseased mockeries of the former life remain. Since they eradicate their own food source, they will push outward to find more food, steadily spreading their contagion until they eradicate everything. It takes thousands of years for their toxins to break down.

Meteor

A magically advanced bloodline which possesses an instinctual mastery of gravity magic. Released into the world underdeveloped (as they couldn’t continue growing in the Trial Chambers), they learned to use meteors as shells and homes, and constructed a biological rocket ship as a hive. The Meteor bugs individually have little intelligence and a very basic caste arrangement, but a total hivemind allows the entire bloodline to exist as a single, alien mind.

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[against-forms-recognizable]

Reminder that the primary author of zizians.info, hivewired, retracted all of that, said it was mostly lies, and that she was being manipulated by a sexual predator with an obsession with ziz.

Those were his words, from the essay he ghost wrote with me in order to gaslight and DARVO a group of transfemme anarchists who spoke truth to power and talked openly about abuse dynamics. I took that essay down, and I’m shoving those words back into his lips where they belong. [...] He was horrified by those anarchists, he really needed everyone to not trust them or take them seriously, if someone did then justice might happen to him. He spent years stalking them, harassing them, and sending his other victims (like me) to stalk and harass them.

the thing about the Zizians is that they're so conceptually ridiculous i still feel tempted to make jokes about them despite the Horrors.

how am i supposed to handle a dear high school acquaintance getting imprisoned because they got rolled up in some bizarro cult for transgender chunnibyos and their roommate tried to stab their landlord? i don't fucking know???

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Slimepriestess (Hivewired) Confessed to being a Co-Conspirator with John David Pressman

On March 3rd, 2021, tumblr user "donttrythisathome" wrote a callout post naming John David Pressman, (aka JD Pressman, David Pressman, namespace, Ahimsa, JDP#4006, GabrilovichRatio#1509,) a serial sex pest and pedophile from Washington State, and Hive (aka Slimepriestess, Octavia Nouzen, Hivewired, Abstract Weapon, Shiloh,) a queer artist and John's ex-partner of two years, as co-conspirators in a scheme to defame and criminalize Ziz, Emma, and their friends.

User donttrythisathome speculated that John's motives were sexual in nature, as he'd confided in them his sexual obsession with Ziz, and had further confessed to them that he was deeply angry with Ziz because she didn't want to have sex with him.

Looking back, I considered some of these accusations plausible because he shared with me a post about Ziz from Hive's blog, which made me think his takes on Ziz were fairly standard. Later, he confessed to me that he ghost wrote that post on Hive's blog, in order to manufacture more support for his viewpoint.

2023-04-03, donttrythisathome archive.is link

Donttrythisathome accused John David Pressman of going so far as to fake signal logs, screenshots of discord comments, and other evidence in order to get Emma and her friends ostracized, fired from their jobs, unable to find work or a place to live, and ultimately to have them arrested or murdered under false pretenses. Currently, Emma has been murdered, and other friends of hers have been arrested under false pretenses, due in part to false testimony by Emma's murderer's best friend, Patrick McMillan.

Later in the year donttrythisathome's post came out, in June 2021, a post was written by Wynne on medium, which in passing accused John David Pressman of calling in false police reports on Emma and her friends, linked to donttrythisathome:

One community member went so far as to call in additional false police reports on the whistleblowers, and wrote a false smear site on Ziz to discredit her, in an attempt to punish her for not wanting to sleep with him. Meanwhile, others threatened them with various kinds of legal action.

2021-06-21 fredwynne

But even before donttrythisathome and Wynne, people were attempting to warn the community about John David Pressman.

Around December 2020, Jamie, who had been a member of John David's inner circle between late 2019 to late 2020, provided Nova and ExCinera with a collection of screenshots and logs spanning half a year from their conversations with John David Pressman, corroborating donttrythisathome's claims.

A few weeks after donttrythisathome made their post, discord user RobustHibiscus also corroborated some of donttrythisathome's accusations, and their corroboration was then posted on donttrythisathome (with permission.)

At some point, Ziz herself posted on her blog that the content of zizians.info was made up.

Now, it's 2023. Because of zizians.info, Emma is dead, innocent people are in jail, and even more names are ruined. Yet, as recently as February 2023, the rationalist community, members including Alyssa Vance, the Vassarites, and JD Pressman, are still repeating the lies in zizians.info. They've scared a community into believing those who speak out against abuse are insane, and are giving false information to the police in order to have whistleblowers arrested under false pretenses.

Alyssa's and her MIRICFAR-associated friends' reasons for lying rest in a 2019 protest, where Emma and her friends blew the whistle on sexual abuse, pedophilia, and donor fraud within the rationalist community, particularly within MIRI and CFAR.

When MIRICFAR staff learned there would be a protest in 2019, they falsely reported an emergency to the police (California Penal Code § 114(a)), claiming that Emma and her friends brought weapons to attack their event, in an attempt to incite the police murder Emma and her friends, (California Penal Code § 664/187) and also in an attempt to intimidate and threaten the survivors and other whistleblowers into silence, so that the whistleblowers wouldn't report the rampant child sexual abuse conspiracy and fraud at MIRI that they had uncovered to the police or to journalists (Califonia Penal Code § 182(a)(1), Penal Code § 182(a)).

(No one died, that time, but the county chose to further threaten the protesters with a series of trumped-up charges. This is typical for courts in the US. They make a series of absurd claims, expecting their victims plea down. They offered Emma and her friends a plea deal where they would drop most of the charges, leaving on I think it was trespassing, and requiring them to do like two weeks of community service. Emma and her friends obviously refused the deal, as they had done nothing wrong.)

So for the next four years, Alyssa and other so-called rationalists have run a ceaseless disinformation campaign, all in the name of covering up the misdeeds of pedophiles, fraudsters, and SWATters. There has been a repeated pattern of MIRI-associated people lying to the police about Emma and her friends since 2019. Imagine being under that kind of sustained, extreme harassment for four whole fucking years.

These so-called rationalists have been egged on by the Vassarites and John David's cult, as both the Vassarites and John David fear that should Emma's friends gain more legitimacy, then people will take them seriously when they further publicize Michael Vassar's history of rape, or accuse John David of pedophilia.

Both Emma a few of her friends personally knew and cared for some of John David's victims, and he anticipated that they would one day talk about his habit of attempting to coerce people into having sex with him via hypnosis, and his other gross habit of sexting underage teenagers. As time went on, John David Pressman became even more scared, when some of Ziz's friends learned of his role in Fluttershy/JF's suicide, and how he "broke" Arti and Olivia. In the latter case, this may have led to someone going to prison for five years. He's bragged about being the hidden hand behind some of the worst of the rationalist scene's abuse, egging on the wrong people and pushing them towards psychotic breaks, just to see if he can.

He was specifically and vocally afraid they'd write a callout post naming him as a rapist and pedophile, and wanted to intimidate and threaten them into silence (RCW 9A.46.020). So he'd go to the police and lie to them, to try to convince the police to do something about Ziz (RCW 9A.76.175). And because the police couldn't give a single shit about people posting online that someone's a rapist and pedophile, he lied and told the police that he feared for his life.

Of course it's a projection, John is the biggest threat to John's "life." But he's been telling the police there's an imminent risk to his life since 2020. It's 2023. He's probably still calling the police every week or month to claim that the raccoons digging in his garbage are Ziz come to kill him.

And you know what the most fucked up part about it is? He's suicidal. He's talked about being suicidal since 2020. And he's setting this up so that when he finally gets that gun out from under his pillow and blows his own brains out like the dark voices in the back of his head keep telling him to do, the cops will think Ziz or one of her friends did it.

Now, it's 2023, and one of the co-conspirators behind zizians.info confessed to their role in it recently, and is corroborating donttrythisathome's callout post, Jamie's attempt at whistle blowing, and RobustHibiscus's statement.

On March 29, 2023, Octavia (aka Hive, Slimepriestess, Octavia Nouzen, Hivewired, Abstract Weapon, Shiloh) recanted her previous posts on Ziz and hemisphere theory, and admitted to her role in John David's schemes. This was followed by a post on April 3rd.

April 1, 2023 Slimepriestess archive.is link

From Hive's blog: (archive.is link)

A girl is dead, and it is at least partly my fault. I helped cast the curse that left her isolated and ostracized from the trans community, that kept her trapped in a dangerous living situation which eventually ended in her murder at the hands of a violent transphobe, a murder that is even now being blamed on her friends in order to justify further cruelty and torture being done to them, and it’s because of me. I will bear that burden for eternity and I fucking should.

The "curse" Octavia links to is the post donttrythisathome accused John David Pressman of ghost writing with Octavia. This post has since been taken down by Octavia and replaced with a poem, however older versions of it are available on the web archive. Octavia's original post was linked across the ratcords and passed around in DMs, and for a long time was treated as almost authoritative on Ziz and her friends' beliefs. Octavia admits JD's accusations against Ziz and her friends were lies made up by JD.

I don’t want any more of my friends to die, and I don’t want to keep helping my abuser kill them by participating in their communal ostracization and othering. The lies I helped him spread need to be called out as such. Not only for our sake, but because the harm he caused with those lies extends far beyond just me or any of his other immediate victims and he won’t be satisfied until he proves the world was always doomed by destroying it himself.

JD is a sociopathic sexual predator who specifically targets trans members of the rationalist community.

As far as JD sees it, deep down everyone is a monster and you’re no better, no one can be better, so he doesn’t have to can’t be better, he can’t be better and doesn’t want to try. “Inside you there are two wolves, and they’re both rapists.” Those were his words, from the essay he ghost wrote with me in order to gaslight and DARVO a group of transfemme anarchists who spoke truth to power and talked openly about abuse dynamics. I took that essay down, and I’m shoving those words back into his lips where they belong. I don’t think there are two rapists inside you stardust, and there certainly aren’t any rapists inside me. There are, however, two rapists inside JD Pressman.

(I bolded the phrases in the above paragraphs.)

And here Octavia comes out and directly says that the hemispheres post was ghost written, as DARVO (deny, attack, and reverse victim and offender.) (To be clear, I don't believe Hive was ever friends with Ziz, or any of Ziz's friends.)

He spent years stalking them, harassing them, and sending his other victims (like me) to stalk and harass them.

Those other victims-turned-harassers include Jamie, Ratheka, Fluttershy/JF, and others. JD spent significant time convincing these people with lies that Ziz, Emma, and their friends were a dangerous threat to them personally.

Fluttershy died because JD spent years convincing her that she was a monster beyond saving, that she was irredeemably evil. he polluted her epistemics the way he polluted mine, with the fear of ‘zizians,’ the fear of retribution from a just universe, cursed souls damned to Naraka. This is what he does to all his victims and his greatest weapon in this was a years-long running DARVO against Ziz, the only witch who actually had a way out of his mental knot of infinite submission to evil. He made it his personal mission to erase the existence of that way out, to prove that it was nothing but madness. He painted her in the worst possible light, giving her a description that was really just a reflection of his dark sexual fantasies about himself.

So, there you have it. Straight from the mouth of one of his co-conspirators. I would say there's some satisfaction in being right, but Emma's already dead.

I could talk about how the rationalist community has a habit of filing false reports with state officials, that this kind of behavior was even seen back in the MIRICULT days, where a former employee reported MIRI to the IRS, and sent reports to UK's immigration authority claiming that a number of marriages in the rationalist community were green card marriages, when as far as anyone knows those accusations were false.

I could talk about how Jack Gallagher, a Vassarite, was caught on video call saying that he wanted to kill Ziz and her friends.

I could talk about how much effort has been put in by these creeps over the years, to have Ziz and anyone associated with her be falsely charged with crimes.

I could talk about how Vassarites like Zack M. Davis are scraping the bottom of the barrel, cozying up to transphobic muckrakers in a futile attempt to use those trollish transpobia-peddlers to kill us where swatting, false police reports, and California landlords have failed. But honestly? They already went as low as they could go. Emma's already dead.

All of it pales in comparison to Emma getting shot through her heart and lung, and drowning in her own blood.

Have you ever had a coughing fit so bad you started to panic? That feeling of shortness of breath, of your airways refilling with liquid with every cough, and the intensifying animal terror of being unable to breathe?

If you've ever had that experience and you're still here, you managed to clear your airways. You weren't fatally injured. Her last moments were rising terror with no solution, just pain, panic, and then nothingness. I think about that a lot, at night before I sleep. I imagine what that felt like, and I cry.

She coughed so hard trying to clear her airways that there were chunks of her own lung tissue around her mouth!

So many will flinch from looking because what happened is so fucking horrible, but it actually happened. In real life. It's not a story in a book. That's what her last moments were like.

Here is a picture of her. She was a real person. This is who they murdered. This is the person who died that way:

John David Pressman, and many others, made her death probable. And there is nothing they could do, short of building a time machine, and raising Emma from the dead, that could cool my rage.

Emma is dead because MIRICFAR chose to cover up statutory rape and donor fraud.

Emma is dead because people associated with MIRICFAR chose to swat Emma and her friends' peaceful protest, setting them up for years of legal troubles.

Emma is dead because in the aftermath of their arrests, Alyssa Vance and others in the rationalist community attempted to cover up any wrongdoing by in part claiming that Emma and her friends were violent and crazy.

Emma is dead because Jamie lied about whether Alice had abused them, adding credence to Alyssa's and others' assertions that Emma and her friends were hysterical liars.

Emma is dead because John David Pressman recruited Fluttershy, Hive, Ratheka, Jamie, Arti, and others by preying on their fears and manipulating them.

Emma's dead because John David Pressman spent four years using his network to spread rumors and generate false evidence that Emma and her friends were crazy death cultists, adding credence to Alyssa's claims that Emma and her friends were dangerous crazy people.

Emma is dead because some of the people John David Pressman manipulated sent death threats, credible bomb threats, and wasted their time.

Emma is dead because the Vasssarites capitalized on the work of John David Pressman and MIRICFAR's goons when Vassar realized he couldn't recruit Emma or Ziz into his cult.

Emma is dead because a transphobic landlord felt like he could get away with it, because everyone knew "those people" were just "crazy cultists."

Emma is dead.

If any other co-conspirators or enablers wish to come forward and see Justice done, the best time to have done so was before Emma was murdered. The second best time is now.

[direwrath]

If only we could take our camp dogs out with us on an adventure in Red Dead Online.

I rendered this image with that wishful thought in mind. This is my RDR online character Ruvik with his temperamental stallion Karl and his hunting dog Fern out having a casual ride out on the plains.

I ran this image through some filters to give it an old look too.

Image was rendered in Daz 3D Studio, Ruvik was recreated by me on the Genesis 8 model, Karl and Fern were made using the Hivewire horse and Hivewire dog models.

[shanaraharlyah]

Last minute Mermay post! Hivewire House Cat has got himself a new friend. I did this one last year for the Stay Home - Spread Hope Challenge at the Hivewire forums

Bigger Here

[bloodydamnit]

Heyyyy. I feel kinda bad asking for your help for free. But how did you make King’s fur colourful and textured? I have the millennium cat in Daz and it doesn’t actually have any colour/fur options and I can’t find any in the store.

Hello there! I am SO SORRY for responding so late. This is actually a really good fucking question, that took me FOREVER to find an answer to when I was trying to figure King out. 

So, you actually cant do it with millennium cat :/ I don’t think? I’m sure there are ways, but honestly, millennium cat is not the best cat you can get. 

I 10/10 recommend investing in Hivewire House Cat. It’s 30 USD, which is fucking expensive for just a model. I got mine on sale, which they do every so often. If you put it in your wishlist on Renderosity, sometimes they do wishlist sales. Where everything in your wishlist they put on sale. So you can wait around for that, or you can just buy it. I recommend the hell out of it. 

***Very important. Downloading files from Renderosity and other websites that do not use the Download Manager from Daz’s own shop, can be v confusing. I have a MAC. There are a shit ton of tutorials on youtube on how to download these files on a Windows computer. But from a MAC, it took me for fucking ever. So if you would like a tutorial on how to download assets from other 3D rendering websites like Renderosity, please let me know! I’ve figured out a really simple way of doing it and I would be more than happy to help and the same goes for finding those files once you have them correctly situated in DAZ!***

Here’s why I recommend Hivewire. 

Millennium isn’t as detailed as Hivewire is. Millennium is a v old cat model, with only a few bones and no really helpful sliders in ‘Shaping’ and ‘Parameters’.

Just as a visual, here are these two side by side. On the right is Millennium and on the right is Hivewire. Millennium, for some reason, comes ridiculously oversized. Whereas Hivewire is automatically at the proper size for a common housecat.

Here are the Millennium ‘Parameters’ options:

And the Hivewire ‘Parameter’ options:

Even just looking at the size of the sidebar, there’s a big fucking difference. Hivewire is 10x more customizable. And everything that it comes with is already IRAY compatible. 

With all that being said, lets get into Hivewire House Cat. Because really, although Millennium is cheaper, I really don’t think it’s worth it. 

HHC (hivewire house cat) comes as a Tabby. The Tabby option comes with several different color options. You can also buy Black/White (which I used for King), Calico, and Orange Tabby as well. 

Here’s my black/white and gray tabby options:

However, the colors are not the long hair. In the promotional photos for some of these color options, the cats have long hair and it took me FOR FUCKING EVER to figure out how to do it. LUCKILY IT’S FREE THANK FUCKING GOD. 

So, lets get into that!

HHC comes with a LAMH (Look At My Hair) option! What does that mean? It means that you can easily add fur to these creatures. 

You can buy LAMH or you can get the free version. I recommend the free version. It’s what I have and if you’re only using it for this, then you gucci. Pretty much, to use LAMH, you have to download it from the website. Once that is done, in Daz you go to 

It should pull up this window. You can drag it anywhere on your workspace. 

Change the color of your kitty BEFORE you go onto the next steps. Unless you want to mix and match, which we’ll get into later!

So what do you do next - good question. 

Now you have to download the LAMH Presets from the Hivewire website. 

This. was so. fucking. annoying to figure out. with a lot of trial and error. 

Once you have LAMH presents for HHC downloaded (which comes with Short, Short 2, and Long) you can start attaching them to your cat. 

Make sure you have your cat selected. I HIGHLY recommend putting this in a new ‘document’ (?) so nothing else can interfere. I swear to god, this makes my program crash unless I don’t have it in a new field. Your program may crash. It’s annoying but the harsh reality of this thing. It’s about as finiky as dforce. So just keep that in mind and don’t give up. 

After your cat is selected, hit ‘Attach LAMH Preset’. It’s going to pull up your files. Find the LAMH presets you downloaded from the hivewire website (they can remain in a folder all on their own without being integrated into the program) and select how long you want the hair to be - Short, Short 2, or Long.  

I chose Long

It’s going to load and then all this green stuff is going to cover the HHC and in ‘Scene’ it’s going to have a new selection called HHC LAMH Group.

The next steps are really simple, but also really fucking important. 

Now, you are going to choose the hair quantity. Online you can find in different  forums, the hair quantity that people have chosen. I’ve seen the standard 250,000, 600,000, all the way to 2,000,000. YOU DO NOT NEED 2,000,000. Not even 1,000,000! I nearly always go with 600,000. The cat looks nice and full that way. I say, stay between 250,000 and 600,000. Don’t go any higher or your program will surely crash. 

***also, you can pose your figure with this. It will move with it. But, some poses will not work v nicely with LAMH - especially if it’s long haired. Anything too tightly curled, probably wont work.***

I’m going to go with 500,000 and hit ‘to OBJ’. I recommend saving this as you go. Like with every step, just hit save. Like I said, this crashes all the time and it’s extremely annoying to have to redo the steps over and over. So just save it and in turn, save yourself the headache. 

Once you hit ‘to OBJ’, this dialogue is going to pop up. Click ‘Yes’ then ‘OK’

Cool cool cool. everythings loaded, now wtf do you do? Use the eyes under HHC LAMH Group to make the green stuff disappear. DO NOT. I REPEAT. DO NOT DELETE. 

This is just so you can see your kitty with their little fur!!

Okay, you did all these steps. now fucking what? I think this is important to be said, but pose your cat BEFORE you attach the hair. It makes the hair fall more organically that way. Otherwise, it can not only make your program crash but just look weird. So, pose and position your kitty beforehand. So when you merge it into your original file, it’s already in place and you can go straight to rendering. (Leave LAMH for last. Always.)

Cool cool cool you did all of this. You can now pull up the AUX Viewport tab and see what your kitty be lookin like.

Now. I said earlier that you can mix and match. I didn’t know this was a thing, until i made a mistake and REALIZED it was a thing. For King, I wanted her to be black and white. However, homegirl forgot to do that. so after I had all of her fur already on and finished, I clicked one of the black and white options, and all of a sudden it mixed?!?! So I think what happened here, was that I had King as a tabby, or maybe mainly white. I don’t know. And when I attached the fur, the color from her original ‘skin’ also attaches to the fur, in order to give it color. Well, when I changed it afterwards, it ended up mixing her up. So instead of her turning out like this (which is what I originally had her as):

She came out like this:

Unfortunately, I have NO IDEA HOW I GOT TO THIS. So although King is looking fucking FIRE here, I couldn’t use it. :( 

Ugh, anyway. Another really important thing to keep in mind, is that you don’t want the hair to be too thin. I’m almost positive for both of these models, I used 600,000 hairs. I went lower than that for a picture of king in the office, and her hair came out extremely thin and you could see her body through it. It wasn’t a good look for her (Sorry bb girl). So if your number is too low, it will look off. Like a mangey cat lol. 

Example: 

250,000

500,000

This is a small difference, but they look far more filled out. And you can really tell when you have a stronger light source!

Heres one with King when her fur was literally just too thin. I think this was 250,000 as well. 

ANYWAY.

I hope this helps!!! And I’m sorry this came so late. I know it’s really long so anyone reading this going what the fuck, ignore it lmfaoo. 

If anyone would like an indepth tutorial on how to download external files and where to find them, please let me know! I’d love to help!

[content-creation-3d-a-group]

CWRW White Lion for the HiveWire Lion Family

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CWRW White Lion for the HiveWire Lion Family

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Bring your renders to life with the mystique and wild beauty of the rare White Lion Family with this set of high res textures.

Given the high resolution of these maps, they are made for professional quality commercial artwork well as giving fabulous superior quality results for the hobbyist.

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[tototavros]

I just tries reading some of that sincereiously blog after what you mentioned about the protest. Lmao wtf is their angle? /can't commit enough to read through on them atm/

it’s not even that *interesting* of a blog, i used to read it like 6 months ago but even something like hivewired is better for galaxybrain diy-therapy

wrt “what is their angle”, think of it like a luther thing, “people promised some things and didn’t deliver and i want to fix it” 

[my3dartblog]

"Do you dare to ride the HotLava Horse, red and orange fire coursing through it's body, Mane, and Tail?""Or maybe you prefer the Skel-Horse with glowing white bones, or the FieryHorse with a flaming mane and tail". ------------------------------What's Included & Features Materials (.duf, .mc6)3 Horse coats.3 Fetlock colors.3 Tail colors.2 Eye colors3 Bonus Tack LIE Mats. Required Products: HiveWire Horse Software: Poser 10 / Poser Pro 2014 +, Poser Pro 11, DAZ Studio 4 With IRAY, Poser 12, Poser 13 Coming soon: https://3d-stuff.net/ #daz3d #dazstudio #3drender #3dart #daz3dstudio #irayrender #3dartwork #blender #blenderrender #blenderart #noaiart #noaiwriting #noai https://3d-stuff.net/

[wizardlizard32]

LASTLY we have some QUITE A FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEW original characters for stories I want to tell to go through so prepare yourselves for a long one cause this will be THE DOOZIE I'll do my best to organize them by stories though so lets start with a WHOLE HUGE STORY I WANNA MAKE.

-Tales of Uvanos (its called this cause its literally segmented in different book terms and in universe is a collection of stories)

this is a character simply known as "The Originator of Cycles" a design inspired by my brain seeing something in a piece of EXTREMELY vague ambiguous album art that probably wasn't intended.

the first piece was my earliest exploration of the character when I didn't quite have things figured out while the second is a relatively recent Reference sheet in an attempt to really finalize the design I'm quite happy with it

some visual themes I kept in mind for this character were "Duality" "Clocks" and "Eyes" I do have a human form for this character PLANNED but the problem is I just...I cant quite make one I'm satisfied with

next up is a character by the name of "William" a Giant lizard person (in universe known as "lizros") with a... "bit" of a hoarding problem, despite this he has a heart of pure gold and a brain of peanut he...he is very dumb and kind of wholesome? he cant read by the way he just sees people look happy while staring at books and wants to join in on the fun...don't ask how he got the glasses.

this one is called "Father of the Infinite Horizon" they are...they are space god THEY ARE SPACE GOD DRAGON in universe they would be described as having "as many tails as they do hands" in other words INFINIT HANDS AND TAILS.

and with that, that would be all this universes designs lets next move ontoooooo... -HiveWire (a western style story about Robots and bugs named after in universe songs and robots that control bug)

this is Julias Fort otherwise known as "the brass devil" a machine outlaw with no Sectoid of his own, he runs a gang of similar minded folks called "the Devils of red hill" as the design probably gives away he is OBSESSED with fire and explosions this is because he woke up from his long sleep (a long period of time since humans left mars oh yeah THIS IS ON MARS where machines are stuck in sleep mode some never woke up) on a 4th of july celebration.

I'll be honest...I'm not a big fan of this design anymore and I will likely change it in the future this is one of those first draft designs.

Gold Rush Crush an enigma among mars all that's really known about it is its looks and the fact that it might not even be real? it seems to like mirage sometimes appearing in multiple places at once or moving in frames what's worse is that it can mess with a robots connection to their sectoid (bugs) partners driving them wild when near.

this is a design I am MUCH MORE SATISFIED WITH its old but I'm still kinda proud how ever I do need to tweak it a bunch still

that would kinda be it for hivewire I still need time to really explore this story idea but I have a lot in mind now lastly I have this story idea which is...also my oldest.

-EndlessWild (robot and wild human travel post apocalypse world Robot unfamiliar with new world wild life but is familiar with people, Human is familiar with new world wild life but is unfamiliar with people)

this is Parental and Educational Network or P.E.N. for short a machine from before the fall of humanity designed to assist in supervision and education during late work hours they've woken up to the now mostly animal dominated world and is lost in a familiar but off setting that doesnt quite line up with its old world data.

another personal favorite albeit still in rough stages design I kinda want his design to be a mix of fantasy wizards and magitech with some Art deco influence.

Quinn mortison The Cackling Crow, an old trader with a strange cough like that of a crows croaking he is not to be trusted as there is suspicion that he is behind several missing caravan reports due to wild life (although how he lures several species of creatures is currently unknown).

the painfully obvious planned villain of the story while this design has undergone....SEVERAL revisions I'm still not quite...happy with it...not yet its close but not quite enough.

The Radiant Maglight a being of myth in the endless wild among all this being is said to be a magpie made of pure light who will signal when humanity can settle once more by slaying the horror of their own creation "The Wrong Wyrm".

these are also super rough a trend you'll notice a lot in my art I'm quite pleased in the direction this is going but just something about the design doesn't... feel right... hmmmmmmmmmmmm >:l

these are cobblids a tiny species of monitor lizard named for their cobbled stone like scales that seem to be following the same path as early humans while it is hard for humans to understand them efforts have been made and progress is going.

I...I have a bias for lizards I like lizards anywho these little things make me happy it especially helps cause they got me out of a HUUUUUUUUUUUGE art block TWICE when I made them and then continued to explore the designs I still wanna work on em I like how cute they are but Idk they feel too...mascot-y.

in this world theres also Paved river monitors another species of monitor lizard thats evolved for a more aquatic lifestyle akin to crocodiles they live in "paved rivers" as the name implies which are old roads flooded and deepened with a constant stream of water making new rivers within the now worn down ruined cities of old.

these were just fun I think taking simple abstract concepts or inanimate objects and turning them into semi believable animals is one of my favorite things to do in art its just...fun and a lesson I learned from listening to mh devs talk about how they make things :>

lastly we have "Pine walkers" while they look more akin to a strange kind of dog they're actually derived from old bears they've evolved to resemble young pine trees under thick layers of snow the live way up north and will use their claws to chip away at frozen water surfaces and fish for food using their tongues as lures. this was one of my earliest concepts for this story idea and came from a similar mindset as the originator design all the way up top albeit with a tree I saw outside rather than a abstract album cover I definitely...like this design? but I definitely want to revisit it.

[luckbe3d]

The real reason they tell you not to go out alone at night...

Bought the Hivewire Horse and I LOVE IT. Beats the snot out of my old Millenium Horse. Now I just need more textures for it!