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Salts of Mercury
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amazing news you can just go and buy this? like you can just click on the link and purchase this item to your home address. or your work address. or your worst enemy's address, if that's how you roll.
genuine human written fiction product, I can show you the original handwritten manuscript if you want.
"Idiots," I say, referring to the characters I have spent hundreds of my real life hours contemplating.
unfortunately i have free will so im about to make art that is going to appeal to basically 4 people. let us hope those 4 people follow me.
i think the crux of human misery stems from the fact that our skeleton just wants to sit around and accumulate dust in an ancient barrow (that is the innate imperative of all skeletal remains in-case you didn’t know) but our meat has its own agenda which creates this fundamental conflict of interests
sex position: you, sitting on your throne. me, standing behind you, resting my arm on the back of your throne and sniling so sneetly at your ministers like i have any right to be there
i’m not procrastinating. i’m allowing the story to ferment. like kimchi. or a crime scene
worldbuilding as a hobby is very fun. but watch out! if you don’t take good enough notes you WILL become an archaeologist trying to figure out your own Bronze Age Collapse
"nothing is real atoms never touch each other youve never touched anything in your life" ok. well when i pet my dog he is soft and when he licks my hand it is wet and that is far more real to me than whatevers going on at an atomic level
what my atoms are doing is their fucking business man i'm busy trying to stop my dog from eating tissues directly out of the box
nuclei don't touch, but the nucleus is not the core of reality. reality is made of electrons dancing. reality is made of bonds.
you pet your dog and the atoms that are you brush up against the atoms that are him, and the electrons that are you press into the electrons that are him, and both of them change their movement.
electrons of course are not really particles and do not really move.
you pet your dog and the electron-orbitals of your skin overlap with the electron-orbitals of his fur, and both are changed by the contact. you are not made of little motes floating alone in a void. you are a single unfathomable chord formed of a trillion vibrations, and so is he. and the note you play is changing at every moment by what you touch and how you breathe, and so is his. and atoms do not really have edges, and to touch is to interact, and when you put your hand on your dog the universe does not know that you are separate. the song expands to hold you both.
today's project summarises as "vivisection and forced soulbonding". this is what the people want.
Hi, I recently came across one of your posts about petting your fur baby and how the notes that you and your pet are change chords as they both interact. I am in the process of creating a world for my fantasy novel and I feel this thought process is very similar to how I have been envisioning my world building. Will it be alright if I borrowed your outlook as well from the original post? I'd be more than happy to credit if and when I publish my book.
Thanks!!
you are entirely welcome to use it, because it's science! it's literally our universe that we live in!
ok, so, I guess calling it a chord is more of a metaphor than a fact, but you really are made up of the collective motion of a trillion vibrations, and so is your dog. and atoms really don't have edges. and to touch really is to interact and therefore to be changed by the contact.
molecular bonds (what atoms do when they interact) can be imagined as strings or springs between two atoms. or like a bunch of balloons tied together, but let's go with a spring for now. if you're drawing it out, you just put "spring goes here", right? you draw it at its average length and average angle. but in reality, the spring is always moving at least a little bit. it can bend in various directions, it can get longer and shorter, and whatever it's doing it tends to repeat it, back and forth. that's what a vibration means in chemistry, it's a way a bond can be wiggling. the way your bonds are wiggling is the temperature of your molecules, and also sometimes their electrical state, and sometimes their shape.
in basic chemistry you learn that molecular bonds come in two kinds (ionic and covalent), and you only really look at permanent links between atoms. you learn that that's chemistry, and what stops a box from sliding down a hill is physics, and it's something different.
in more advanced, more accurate chemistry, you learn that "friction" is a kind of bond. it's mostly a thing called reversible bonding. surface tension is bonds. colour is bonds vibrating in particular ways. geckos sticking to the wall is van der Waal's forces, which is to say it's their molecules interacting in particular ways with the wall's molecules, which is to say it's chemistry, it's bonds, everything is bonds, reality is made of electrons dancing, reality is made of bonds.
So like, as poetry, I guess you don't need to know all that for it to be beautiful, and I definitely can imagine a fantasy world that uses a similar description for magic.
But as a metaphor, it's a metaphor for this. it's a metaphor for here. for this cosmos which contains us, in which we can't understand an electron but we can make words like "wavicle" with which to try, and we can think about how the standing-wave which is an electron has a particular shape, and how the shape has to change if you pet your dog, because your skin and his fur will have friction, which is the making and breaking of bonds, so if you could write out the total quantum description of your body, your body when it touches the dog would need a different equation, because of the ways that you are not separate.
rereading your own fics/wips is a very slippery slope into finding out you actually have to finish your fics if you want them finished
it's good enrichment for The Character(s) when one of their friends gets possessed and they have to find some way to bring them back. great friendgroup bonding activity. especially if they have to do some exorcism bullshit and it's traumatizing for everyone involved and there's collapsing and sobbing afterward. great thing for The Character(s) to do. highly recommend.
Are you suffering from the Alectopause? Do you want necromancy and doomed romance and the question of what it means to be yourself? Do you like it when the unending grief becomes hubris? read Salts of Mercury
#i am seven chapters in and already ready to shake the protagonist by the shoulders yelling WHAT ARE YOU DOING WHAAAT AAARE YOUUU DOOOING#looking forward to much more of this to come#vervain's narration is so much fun to read#salts of mercury
Vervain is doing reasonable and proportionate and above all well-planned things in chapter seven and at all other times.
This is slander! My baby has never made any bad decisions, ever.
*remembers what Vervain was doing in chapter seven*
Okay, maybe that was a terrible decision, but it was just that once.
*remembers the entire rest of the book*
Are you suffering from the Alectopause? Do you want necromancy and doomed romance and the question of what it means to be yourself? Do you like it when the unending grief becomes hubris? read Salts of Mercury
#i am seven chapters in and already ready to shake the protagonist by the shoulders yelling WHAT ARE YOU DOING WHAAAT AAARE YOUUU DOOOING#looking forward to much more of this to come#vervain's narration is so much fun to read#salts of mercury
Vervain is doing reasonable and proportionate and above all well-planned things in chapter seven and at all other times.
Round 2
The Angel (Deltarune) vs Urgathoa (Pathfinder)
The Angel
Urgathoa
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I just looked up Urgathoa - I know her peripherally but haven't done a deep dive before: and discovered her founding myth, and, hell yeah.
So there was this mortal, right, who was greedy and enjoyed a life of luxury; and as occurs in such cases, and all other cases, she died.
A psychopomp met her on the shores of the River of Souls to escort her to the court of Pharasma, judge of the dead, where her life would be assessed and her soul's destination decided.
"Fuck that," thought Urgathoa; and she slew her escort, fled the court, and escaped back to the world of the living.
Thus came undeath to Golarion.
Hey you think necromancy would be more accepted if used for morally good things? Like reuniting orphans with their parents or bringing back dead pets? I’m ignoring what happened last time with the undead pets.
why would you use necromancy for morally good things. what is wrong with you. you are ruining necromancy
