#trichotomies

[honestlyvan]

(Crossposted to DW)

The thing is I have sooooo many things to say about Dark Place Casey but I find myself tripping on step one -- which is that trenchcoat Casey, the Casey from the Echoes, the Casey of Yötön Yö -- that's not actually Casey, our Casey, that's just Alan again. It's Alan, filtered through the lens of Casey, filtered through the lens of Alan.

Because everything that makes Casey recognisably himself is just... good character writing. The affect, the character voice, the opinions, the way he reasons through circumstances, all of those are the result of Alan's familiarity with the version of Casey he thinks is his. We're already seeing one layer down because of the way Echoes work, but even that top layer, Casey in the text, is Alan's creation.

Which makes it fucking fascinating that Casey is in the text identified in a role that is removed from the roles hierarchy of the horror story. He is "the detective". And if you've read enough detective fiction, you know that the detective rarely is the hero of the story. They're not someone who has skin in the game. They're rarely personally involved, their character arc rarely tied to the mystery itself. The detective may be the protagonist, but most of the time their role is to be a witness -- an observer, a collaborator, the window into a broader, impersonal perspective and, when necessary, the hand of the author acting on the plot.

An outsider to Alan's mental landscape with the face and the voice of a stranger.

[2beebebetter]

trendersona redraw yet again but with vague theming I suppose

[paleodictyoptera]

I'm trying to write the story but the story won't write

What even is Summum's personality, it can't be 100% destroy everything in my way, not with how I've been writing him at the very least. He shows at the very least acknowledgement of other transcended beings as being some form of equal, even if he doesn't like them.

Maybe I'll make him a fascist /j

[loftwinglullaby]

wow thank you so much

[tanadrin]

i was roughing out the heightmap for sogant raha’s seafloor, thinking it would be roughly to scale vertically, but man, i did not realize 1) just how crazy shallow continental shelfs are, and 2) how crazy deep trenches are. the former is like 200 meters max, the ocean floor is at around 3000 meters, and the bottoms of the trenches are like ten thousand. the oceans are Too Deep.

[loverboybrightsideghost]

feel like shit just want him back (radio omens crowley)

[qqweebird]

there are only 3 colors in the world and they are black, white, and red:

colors of the sky (night, day, and the transitions between them);

colors of the earth (fertile soil, lime or kaolin, and ochre);

colors of the sea (the depths, the surf, and the salt);

colors of plants (decaying wood and leaves, new growth, and fruits and flowers);

colors of the body (organs, bones, and blood).

all other colors are woke liberal garbage made up to sell you crayons

[spann-stann]

Cringe: The Military-Industrial Complex Based: The Military-Industrial-Spiritual Complex

[wheucto]

an ii/su crossover would be fun just for the trichotomy of light-based beings. inorganic light/organic light/whatever the ii contestants are

[nightlymoxie]

Nix is really more of a punk, but they'll never turn down an excuse to Wear Something Hot

[bookofthrees]

The law of trichotomy

Order in the Real Numbers The law of trichotomy states that, for two numbers a and b, one and only one of the following is true. a = b a equals b a < b a is less than b a > b a is greater than b

[magentagalaxies]

where's that post that's like "nice dichotomy dipshit now what lies outside of it" bc i'm very much feeling it rn

[meatcrimes]

just thinking about the guilt-shame-fear cultural spectrum again

[mortallycoiled]

So if judge is a mooncat and they're affiliated with hark (iirc) what do they think of hark lol

yeah TECHNICALLY theyre affiliated with hark its just that like. hark isnt directly In Charge of the mooncats, theyre just kind of filling a similar role, just with the mooncats having a much more direct influence with the mortal coil.

generally Judge is like... idk kind of indifferent about hark? they dont ever actually MEET considering judge and hark exist on different planes of existence so like. its kind of like the relationship between a paladin and their oath rather than a person's thoughts about another person if that makes sense? to Judge, Hark is an ideal to look up to. Like a saint, maybe?

[hungwy]

Something being outside a dichotomy just forms a trichotomy. What, is something going to lie outside of that too? Tetrachotomy? We need to escape the boundaries of -chotomies. We need to... (Realizes this just forms a dichotomy between non-chotomization/chotomization) oh no...

[fearidescent]

There's so many things I want to watch, but because my mind keeps flitting between what I want to watch most, I don't actually get started on watching any of them.