#its Hypatia

[g-a-r-f-i-l-e-d]

Women's Wednesday coming up tomorrow and I know exactly who's going first

[lapinneok]

voidtober day 11 - science

[witchblade]

i wish dishonored 2 had more of that honestly. on the one hand if you had the timepiece throughout the entire game it would be more of a chore even if you could only use it in select locations, like a lot of the appeal of the level is that it's a one time thing in a single enclosed space so most of the level is Specifically designed for it meaning the mechanic actually has a chance to be satisfying and engaging, and the fact that each level (mostly) has its own gimmick, breaking up the gameplay and keeping the 13 hour gauntlet from getting too monotonous

on the other hand i loike it so much 😻

[unseeliethot]

The hunt is on

[mythtiide]

idk if thisll ever be made into A Thing but a fun idea i had was to make "hypatia" into a sortof ghost heather chandler hallucination thingy that represents a ton of unsolved feelings that both silvester and maria have about that era in general

[sun-like-dem-bones]

Catchy title? THERE'S THREE IN YOUR RELATIONSHIP

Jk. Sorta. This is a random rambling post with possibly a point lol. Saw that clip from the show 1923.

TL;DR: household work has always been a "labor" just as necessary to the common human as farming or trade or any work we do today. The value comes from how much time and effort it takes to learn how to do something. Women did not have societal support for other aspirations in the past. But household labor is still an essential need whether we're raising a family or we're single. The show 1923's scene highlights the lack of recognition of women's labor of the time and reflects how we still see its value today. It gave the women in the scene an interest in higher aspirations when they were limited to few- that they could do other things while automating their laundry in a washer, but would have to pay the electricity and rent on the washer.

So that's it right? No?

It doesn't take a genius (only a bored human). In the past, women did the work needing to be done that the men couldn't get to because his focus was on income/resources to feed the family (anything- farming, trading, livestock, materials/tanning, mining and much more variety than you'd think). Housework was never paid to the wife because someone had to do it and the couple are a team in the best situations. Someone brings the food home and someone cooks it and cleans the following mess and the home in general. In. Order. to. Live. Obviously this is highly simplifying. Chopping wood for the fire and carrying water from the well and all that.

These days if you're living alone, you're doing it all yourself, which is why we pay for these conveniences that we're so used to already. We couldn't be single otherwise- we'd need a community if not a partner. I just think of the microwave- if we didn't have electricity or gas, I think how long it would take to heat up food, which would be rotten from sitting out unless it was like cheese or something. There were other processes to preserve food in the past that we've forgotten to teach.

A post I read long ago read that clothes were designed to only require minimal washing (granted I don't recall what era this is) they would only wash their under layers of dress that were close to the skin and they was made out of a naturally antimicrobial textile (linen I think?). The outer dresses and coats (of which they only had a few anyway) didn't need washing. Perhaps more stitching, leather polishing, I dunno not my area. So why the need for washers?

Meanwhile comments I read mentioned that the men would have viewed farm plows and tools for their trades as very valuable to assist their work. Due to traditional values I presume, the women, not allowed nor had the support to have higher aspirations, could not choose to better themselves at the supposed cost to the men's work. Some of these shows seem to imply that women were supposed to lead the moral high ground in society if you were high up. Cool. Guess you had to watch it around the churches though lest you offend them and trigger a witch hunt

Boy do we live a very different life now- I think as I sit in my cubicle and my partner out working his trade so we can rent an apartment and have food and pay for electric and water. We don't have to do much and it's whoever wants to make food or have a clean sink or clothes does it.

Household labor has been hugely cut out due to technology that I fear it will never be recognized- an insult to our mothers of mothers. But we're STILL paying for it! We're paying for so much convenience because we can't stop work long enough to build our own house, tend to our own gardens and farms, and become self sufficient (which I personally believe has always been a myth until recent times and solar and wind power plays a part in that thinking)

Anyway and so housework labor has likely never been seen as a valuable, because we never had to pay for it in the past. You either did it, or had a wife and/or children who did. The women in the show saw the refrigerator and washer with inherent value and then men only saw the cost and how much they'd have to work more for it. The salesman had an impressive pitch.

We don't see women's traditional labor as valuable, and yet now we pay for it.

Ladies, we're paying for traditional labor now. So if you catch yourself doing any more housework than your s.o. when you both work already, I hope you can find a way to change/remedy the situation.

Also. From this analysis, I've changed my mind on some personal beliefs. It's always been a "two-person" income household, unless you make well enough moneys (like many men did before ...psst higher aspirations...). First it was one income for two people's work, now it's two incomes for two people's work plus bits and bits of random other people's work (for simplicity maybe we say three). But because people profit off of these conveniences, that's where it all goes downhill. The 2:1 ratio is worse than 3:2. That's true. But it can't actually be 3:2 because of wealth inequality (in the us alone and globally if I'm so bold). That corporation selling you the convenience price rather than the materials and labor price, is making that at least a 4:2 ratio then if not 5:2- who knows?

You don't need a man. You don't need a woman. A partner. (I do believe we still need community for mental health reasons and that it takes a village to raise children.)

Conversely, in a world of profiting corporations and wealth inequality, I believe that no one can do it all alone.

I could go on but I'm not an expert. Hope these words mean something lol. Thoughts?

(I haven't seen the show, just read comments about the clip I watched.)

[rottenratman]

I will make connections between belos / the emperors coven and the latest ghost album

[snailstrailz]

Ok so I SUCK at comics and post-sleep clarity compels me to just outline my alternative ending for OATD. I'm kinda on the fence about the ending, but whatever AU where the night entities are real or whatever.

This is kinda long so it's below the cut!

After Dark fades away Orion gets like super pissed at Light and yells at him for not stopping. Light weakly defends himself and flies off, leaving Orion alone to break down on the beach.

Cut back to present Orion and Hypatia, who's like "wow bummer ending dad" and Orion is like"I'm not finished tho!!"

The scene with the night entities realizing they fucked up plays out basically the same, but they all come together and have an argument about what to do. They all really regret just leaving dark but nobody has any ideas on how to fix things.

Finally, they listen to quiet, who suggests they go back for Orion, because maybe they can get Dark back though his memory.

The entities go find Orion, who's still hopeless. The entities all pitch in and talk about how he's helped, but it's not working. Finally dreams appeals to him by just stating the truth. "We need to get him back, or there will be nothing left for anyone."

Orion finally agrees and the whole crew goes into Orion's head this time, but searching through everything they can't find Dark.

This causes Orion to start having a panic attack and then the whole thing with the black hole happens pretty much the same with Orion deciding to face his fears. This dissipates the black hole and Dark is left behind in its wake.

He too, though is completely hopeless. He's reading the list again, crying.

Everyone tries to convince him to come back but Dark won't budge. Completely given up.

Then light shows up. He's like "dude, if you don't come back nobody will ever feel the cool, calm, dark again bro. It kinda blows when it's just me."

Dark turns around. "People have been terrified of me from day one." He turns to Orion, "you're still pretty afraid of me too. But... Maybe that's ok."

Dark gets up and declares that they're going to go fix the world and again the scene plays out pretty much the same.

Dark brings Orion home and they hug one last time. Orion goes inside and it fades to Orion on the field trip. He gathers his courage and talks to Sarah, and even though his voice cracks, he tells Ricchi Panichi to leave him alone.

In the present Orion and Hypatia are going back home. Hypatia doubts the story, thinking it's just made up. Orion knowingly smiles, before something for the poorly lit park from before catches his attention. Beyond the flickering street light, is Dark.

Hypatia is stunned and Dark is like, "long time no see!" Orion is elated to see Dark again, giving him a hug.

"I guess you're here to convince me you're not so bad now?" Hypatia says but Dark says "nah, I don't really mind." Sleep pops in alongside the others and saying, "it's past your bedtime anyway."

Boom title comes on screen credits roll yippee yay

[kalm5]

Hypatia would be a safety stickler in the lab. It’s like she feels it in the force. This drove Mercy up the wall because he is safety conscious. Not his first rodeo on things.

Here is a list of grievances and proof to Master Hypatia that he was being safe when he was manually doing old school pathology..

Hypatia: you aren’t putting your knife guard up!

Mercy: WHAT DO YOU MEAN ITS UP!!!

Hypatia: oh

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Hypatia: you better not have any fingers near that blade when you are ribboning.

Warning photo has a blade in the picture.

Mercy: I’m using the forceps like you told me. My fingers aren’t even close.

Hypatia: don’t back talk me my young apprentice.

Mercy: Oo seriously.

@paperback-rascal this was a lot funnier in my head. Though it could have been the headache that I had. Hope you enjoy it a little bit.

[silverskye13]

hope its okay to share this here! but the hels!joel ficlet has been written. i would have @ you with it but i wasn't sure how you felt about that <3

I'm. Love him. Oh my gosh. Poor poor Joel [Hypatia].

[gayscytheblog]

AOAS AS FURBIES BECAUSE I LOVE THEM

I love furb… and aoas…

Citra Terranova

Giraffe 1998/99 Furb or Tiger 1998/99 Furb

She wears her robe almost all the time bc it’s cool :3

Uuuh I forgot her eye color it was brown I think though

Black beak and turquoise tongue because it’s COOL

Sassy bitch

Ben Terranova

Seahorse 1999 Furby Baby

Idiot gay boy

Rowan Damisch

Witches Cat 1998/99 Furb

Brown eyes

Black beak and red tongue bc hes edgy

Idk what he would wear for clothes, maybe his robe??? Idk

Might revoke his eyelash rights. Might.

Scythe Faraday

Koala 1998/99 Furb

Black eyes bc IDK

Wears his robe all the time

No lashes because fuck you Faraday you don’t get pretty boy privileges (i love faraday though)

Grey beak and black tongue

Scythe Curie

Champagne 1998/99 Furb or Snowball 1998/99 Furb

Light grey eyes with a tint of purple at the bottoms

Always wears her robe

Light purple beak and dark purple tongue

Shitlord Goddard

This one

Faceplate would be dark blue or black though

Dark blue beak, light blue tongue

Scythe Volta

BUMBLE BEE 1998/99 FURB (one of my favs)

Yellow eyes. Not bc it’s canon but because they would be COOL.

Uuuuuuh brown or black beak with yellow tongue

Always wears his robe

Has some scars on his feet and sides (from s/h)

50/50 on the lashes, might look better without.

Scythe Rand

Peacock looking Furby Boom (2013) (or a green custom Furb Boom)

But her Furby faceplate thingy would be dark green instead

Black beak, dark green tongue

Black ears would look cool

Dark green feet would also look cool

Scythe Morrison

Dragon 1998/99 Furb

Wears his fucking jean robe everywhere

Jurby

Jerico Soberanis (as suggested by my boyfriend)

Gorilla 1998/99 Furb

Brown eyes (def has some cool gold accents though bc ITS COOL)

Wears gold jewelry and shirt

Gold beak, uuuuuuuh black tongue bc it looks cool

Greyson Tolliver

Wolf 1998/99 Furb or Church Mouse 1998/99 Furb

Grey feet though

Wears his weird The Toll shit because it makes him look less boring

Grey eyes

Grey beak

Purple tongue because it matches his outfit

The Thunderhead (if it was a Furb)

Thundy would be a Furby Connect (2016) and idk which one but it would be one.

Just less farting and more uh

Serious Thunderhead shit

EXTRAS:

Scythe Alighieri

This but different hair and eyes.

Gross.

Scythe Hypatia (bc shes silly)

Belongs to @sp1derbitez :3!!

Red Wolf 1998/99 Furb

Possibly silvery eyes? Idk it would look cool

Originally didn’t have eyelashes but she gave herself eyelashes bc she’s cool

Dark brown beak with a dark red tongue

Always wears robe

[witchblade]

"Every woman in dishonored was a servant, a prostitute, a witch, a queen, or a little girl. or dead or killed or a mistress."

[unseeliethot]

I have a lot of theories that im still mulling over when it comes to what happened behind the door, but there is One thing im certain of

It Is going to be on sight with Hypatia and Daonna

[karnaca78]

Great Minds of the Isles - A Dishonored Illustration Series

Fig. 1: Esmond Roseburrow, Father of the Industrial Age

My current obsession being Dishonored again, and in particular the scientific aspects of its world, I figured I could draw as well as write about it. So I'm working on a series of illustrations depicting the greatest scientists of the Empire. Namely Esmond Roseburrow (featured here), Anton Sokolov, Alexandria Hypatia and Kirin Jindosh. I might also include Piero Joplin, perhaps others if I can play the games again and find new ideas. Anyone is welcome to make suggestions in case I have overlooked an interesting figure of Dishonored's scientific lore!

Style-wise, I'm seeking to emulate ink drawings typical of the 19th century (although my support is digital). I'm doing research on that end but this is entirely new for me. I hope this little project will help me improve as an artist and find some new Dishonored fans to interact with!

See Fig. 2: Anton Sokolov, Royal Physician

See Fig. 3: Alexandria Hypatia, The Good Doctor

Read The Age of Enlightenment, a series of writings covering science through the Empire of the Isles

[fatehbaz]

Stefano [Harney]: [...] Studying together, writing together [...]. It shares you out. [...]

Fred [Moten]: Sometimes I’m fascinated by these videos of birds swarming, of murmuration. [...] What if the murmuration that we see from outside is really just a collection of vignettes; in any given moment, that duet becomes trio becomes octet, and then it goes back down to quintet, so that there’s this constant [...] preformation going on [...]. [H]ow we make that our practice, our constant study. [...]

Hypatia [Vourloumis]: The murmuration is very important for us because it is [...] materialized through a necessary sharing out of motion, one where its swooping nebulousness is dependent on intense coordination between a small number of groups of starlings that overlap. It seems to me that it’s an important paradigm in terms of collective flight and questions of social organizing, of instituting, or de-instituting, de-structuralization [...]. What would that look like? [...] [R]evolutions happen by way of resonance [...] in the context of the Athens uprising of 2008, and they were thinking how that insurrection resonated with the uprisings of the banlieues of Paris in 2005. [...] After [...] that, you saw Tunisia, and for those of us who live in the Mediterranean, there’s this sense that, for example, if we’re on the Northern Mediterranean, we’re more connected to the Middle East and to the Maghreb across on the Southern Mediterranean, even though we’re supposedly on this continent called Europe with its militarized lethal border. [...] [Y]ou could sense [...] a ricocheting “resonance,” because squares were then occupied in Barcelona and Madrid, then you saw it in Athens, then you saw it in Istanbul. These uprisings were sharing out across the Mediterranean, and then [...] the Occupy movements across the Atlantic or up in England. This seems to raise questions about form, about how we organize ourselves [...].

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Fred: Sandra and Hypatia, your collaboration is also a collaboration of the Caribbean and the Mediterranean. It’s a non-continental, archipelagic thing, or thinking. Y’all think by way of islands, rather than by continental landmasses [...]. You link up with a long line of thought that approaches beach, and shoal, and delta. 

Hypatia: Yes, and I would say that this non-continental “tidalectic” thinking, to cite Brathwaite, spans all the way towards the nusantara (archipelago) of Southeast Asia as well. In my research I think about the islands of the “former East Indies” and the “former West Indies” together too, and, working with Sandra, also Puerto Rico and Greece. What I appreciate so much about Sandra’s book Ricanness is her insistence on the use of the word “anticolonial,” which resonates for me because Puerto Rico and Greece share a history of being ongoing debt colonies. 

Fred: [...] So that resistance to geopolitical brutality is a kind of oceanizing of land mass or an archipelagizing of land mass, which islands [...] realize, or surrealize. [...] It turns on this radical refusal of scale and the way scale is all bound up with the concept of static, statist land mass. [...] [T]he tidalectic momentum of land. [...] [L]ike Brathwaite’s secret sharer, and you share too, Hypatia: from nusantara to Namsetoura.

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Text by: Stefano Harney, Fred Moten, Sandra Ruiz, and Hypatia Vourloumis. “Resonances: A Conversation on Formless Formation.” e-flux Journal Issue #121. October 2021. [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me.]

[faithfromanewperspective]

warlock genetics

okay so this random post about fish got me thinking about warlock genetics again, particularly someone like tessa and what would happen if two shadowhunter-born warlocks were to breed: like @thevagabondexpress and I have discussed in a post i do not know how to find to link the Punnet Square that would cause the children to turn out to be (3 options, fractions given are the chance of each happening) 1/4 demon, 1/4 whatever james and lucie and mina are and 1/2 whatever their parents are. but that is assuming there is only one gene, which is likely false. it would be like saying if you breed two of a hybrid together you'd get children that are fully one species or the other. that doesn't happen. there are many different chromosomes involved so there is always going to be a mashup of both parent species.

so in order to address this I have to return to the existence of a warlock. with a human parent they are a sterile cross, like when you cross a guinea fowl with a chicken. some sterile crosses have low survival rates: warlocks are not like that. they actually live forever.

so in order for this to happen you either have to have demons with VERY similar genetic material to humans (to make offspring that are healthy and not just some Mixmatch of incongruent genes) OR you have to have them be able to do something to the genetic material of humans in order that one human parent plus Demonic Essence makes a whole, diploid (as in Normal Number of Chromosomes) humanlike being. I propose it is the latter. Why, you ask? Because of what happens when one parent is a shadowhunter: tessa. And her descendants, Jace and Julian and Ty and Livvy and Dru and Tavvy are her great-great-great grandchildren. Also, because the idea of demons going around with Similar Genetic Material to Humans scares the shit out of me. Also, because if they did there would be chimp and monkey and maybe dog and cat and hippo warlocks and that is terrifying.

No, I think that demons mimic all animals, eidolons mimicking humans, and with a Demonic Twist because they lie, they turn the familiar into scary and dangerous and they lie, and the pinnacle of that mimicry is when they create something very similar to sperm (for the sake of simplicity I am not going to discuss when a demon receives human sperm just yet) in order to fertilise an egg and have it grow into a child, with demon features. And if you looked at most warlocks, with their warlock marks and the Eldest Curses having less obvious features for them, you would think that it's just 50/50 human and demon DNA. It might be, I just hate the idea. And Jace and the Blackthorns would be carrying around Demon Genes and having it all breed out normally--no, I think this is why Tessa's existence disproves the most obvious and very uncomfortable theory.

Instead I think demons infuse their essence into a zygote. Perhaps one that has already been formed (meaning Magnus' stepdad's DNA is part of him too, which would explain why he looks more Indonesian than just a quarter but it does seem off canon from what Magnus says, I don't think he's ever studied biology though but i could be wrong). Perhaps they use whatever sperm is floating around from whoever the unsuspecting uterus-haver last had sex with, but again. same thing. same problem. I think demons infuse their essence into a zygote by going in there and putting the atoms that come from their home dimension together in the form of the DNA shapes they see in the egg. they mimic the nationality they see, and many features, except add their own little demonic bits and pieces by coding for New Proteins that make horns and new skin pigments and ideas they got from cats (magnus' eyes) and random decoratey shit like stars for Hypatia's eyes and claws and extra finger joints. demons love to have fun, and I think their little sperm essence carries that part of its parent (of course when the zygote develops it loses it and creates a personality that is fully human, as we see in the warlocks we know and love). this means there is no human sperm donor, only demon. james and lucie have half the dna that has been meddled with/looked at and mimicked by the demon. and because it mimicked it so well, in combination with the added strength of Shadowhunter DNA from Tessa's mother, but also Will and Cordelia and Jesse and heck all the way up to Imogen and Celine and Clary and Emma--they seem like normal Shadowhunters. the faked demon DNA is doing great, and only because Tessa's mother's Shadowhunter Essence was so strong that it was like, okay Demon Essence, you will not make your Extra Proteins to create weird shit that stop us being able to breed with a Human Person. but we will keep the Magical Stuff that allows us to do magic and prevent our telomeres and DNA and proteins from ever breaking down or becoming cancerous so we never age

(I wonder if james and lucie and mina are immune to cancer?)

and these traits will exist in all of the (warlock)'s DNA but only in half of their children's DNA, so the other half of DNA will break down and create proteins and that which lose fucntionality with age like normal causing them to age pretty much normally, a quarter in the grandchildren, an eighth in the great grandchildren and so forth, meaning Magical Infusion quickly becomes so dilute it's indistinguishable from Regular Magical Infusion of Shadowhunterness and the Little Bit of DNA That Doesn't Age also quickly becomes insignificant.

whereas if two people similar to Tessa were to procreate it would be 100% Warlock DNA and thus. More people like them. No ordinary shadowhunters or demon babies. I discard that old theory.

which leads me to, if it's the Weird Proteins that Don't Create Sperm and Egg Cells That Work But Create Cool Features that make most warlocks unable to procreate--if there were two warlocks with the Same Weird Features could they breed? possibly. unlikely I think. first of all I think each demon would do their Weird Proteins differently, and second of all, I think their existence in the DNA makeup is what causes meiosis to not work properly. perhaps an egg cell just ends up being Half A Cell and doesn't differentiate into an egg. perhaps sperm cells get weird features and no longer have the tail thing to swim properly. perhaps this changes every time. so maybe in the rare chance it's possible? and a child is conceived but the combination of the demonic features in proteins is Too Much To Handle and it will always get miscarried, same as that of a shadowhunter who's had their protective spells carrying a child with Demonic Essence

(which also leads me to think that if will and tessa were sex-swapped they would not be able to have children if will had had the protection ceremony but that's another theory. what about cordelia?? maybe she does miscarry a few times or at least have some unsuccessful fertilisations. maybe that's why there's no pregnancy scare in chain of thorns?? but the child/ren she does (??) have are born without magic powers, it's the only combinations of James' genetics that are viable and compatible with a protected shadowhunter's uterus. same goes with lucies daughters in law. maybe marjorie is so bitter bc she was never able to have children. idk)

anyway that's all my theories on warlock genetics so far