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she/her | euxinianathema on Discord | ammonite in spirit ^_^

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hello! feel free to call me Alice!

this is my maladroit attempt at a straw page because i suck!!1!!!! https://alicefern.straw.page

try your best to have a pleasant day, if you will! ^_^

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heh..

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gacha game where it's gijinkas of. idk uhhh numbers. and you start seeing fanart and shipping discourse from people who thirst about 19 or 235 or 611. don't miss the prime banner this month. yeah i'm pulling for 97 she's literally my wife? and they keep coming up with new numbers. and player complaints about powercreep culminate when they release 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (blonde twink)

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some things don’t change

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the initial score was based off of mini Herta

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okay bladie

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A few details I’ve noticed in passing ( ╹ -╹)?

There’s an NPC in Amphoreus named Parmenides, and an associated achievement after completing the quest Elsewhere. If you’ve encountered two scholars debating, he was one of them.

There’s also a bath soak in the renovation event (suspiciously doctor-shaped….) mentioning Parmenides.

Parmenides was a pre-Socratic philosopher and cosmologist. For a frame of reference:

1. Anaxa is a reference to the pre-Socratic cosmologist Anaxagoras.

Castorice mentions the concept of his 6th eidolon, Everything is in Everything, when you first meet him incorporeally.

Nous (see below) is related to this. It’s not a coincidence that his faction in the Grove is dedicated to the Nousporists.

2. Thales, the first of the Seven Sages in game, is a reference to the pre-Socratic philosopher Thales; often considered the Father of Philosophy.

Arche (water), as the single origin and fundamental principle of the universe; that the earth floats on water.

Anaxagoras isn’t too far behind.

Nous (mind), a cosmological principle of order—rational, yet non-divine; of pure intellect, and yet material in the same, if individual—the finest of all things. It is said to be a [primordial] force that has manipulated the virginal mess of the universe, manifesting in the motion and ordering of the chaotic matter to form the rational physical world—though that initial mess has not been removed, but dispersed, and thusly, there is a part of that ‘everything’ in everything. 

3. Panta Rhei, Veritas’ warp event title, is a reference to the pre-socratic philosopher Heraclitus.

I’ve probably missed a few since I’m fairly passive with the readables—feel free to mention others!

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Ratio/Alhaitham comparisons are, sort of, largely egregious. it's not to say that he flaunts himself as much as aventurine does, but he's so very ostentatious in any case; several statues of himself in ridiculous poses, trying for a metaphysical god's glance. his burst voice line is esse est percipi; to be is to be perceived-subjective idealism, some sort of implicit reference to his handsome bust^tm maybe.

then again, the line's likely just for flair, and every character in the game's exaggerated; Aventurine has a roulette table stitched onto the back of his fur-lined coat and Ratio's name is fucking Veritas Ratio, but..you get it!!!!! Ratio is not reserved or indifferent. he is deeply concerned. Alhaitham isn't nearly so broad.

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Dr. Ratio’s warp event title, Panta Rhei, is a reference to Heraclitus of Ephesus

there’s a few quotes reminiscent of him, too

worth mentioning that Anaxagoras was a contemporary of his. not that you needed another reason to mourn the possibilities (╥﹏╥)

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thinking about if Ratio ever did get his hands on that research apropos of the Stellaron, or if Sunday just..lied to him. the alternative might’ve been revoking access when he’d caught onto their arrangement. if so, if there was mere a chance he would have a revolutionary breakthrough in and of the universe, he’d disregarded it for the sake of the mission.

is this anything

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urghhnrrmmm….is it teto or is it madoka…you decide…!!!11!!1

>_>

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my default response to “what r your interests” includes saying that I’m into pre-socratic cosmology. not for the sake of self-improvement or any ostensible insight and whatnot, but for the philosophers themselves, their dynamics with contemporaries and their vague inconsistencies and what’s known of them from fragmented writings or secondhand accounts.

,,,,,how do I tell anyone that it’s for the yaoi. it’s always for the yaoi how do I tell them that I’m specifically cataloguing their interactions with adjacent philosophers so I’ve an impression on what they might’ve been like for the sake of characterization in fanfiction.

I’ve had my family be like waow..!!! you’re learning Chinese and you’re on Chinese sites and browsers and programs for media aggregation and circulation, that’s so kewl ^__^ how’d you get into this?! despairing, trying not to say “its for ratiorine it’s for their respective ship name 理砂 it’s for them and him and” im going to bust.

“why is this your favourite genre” Aventurine. “what’d you draw?” His eyes. “what were you gifted for your birthday” a research paper and a vanilla cake. it remains unsaid, that there was his face printed on it. he has consumed me and I have consumed him. goddess i can’t do this anymore

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made an awful tweet on subjective idealism and it got 14 likes and MY WRITING FUCKING SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! here’s a drawing instead

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for entirely unnecessary context, I have been shipping Heraclitus and Hermodorus as a joke after letter IX ostensibly written to the latter by the former: https://lucianofsamosata.info/wiki/doku.php?id=2013:heraclitus-letters-ix. haven’t looked through the sources yet, my default assumption is that this is likely not legitimate considering there’s scarcely anything leftover from Heraclitus in any case, and I really don’t care for Ancient Hreek philosophy but the philosophers - messing around with insufferable historical figures is all in fun. maybe not good fun, this is so stupid but i am enjoying myself.

you know what brother, maybe i should.

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my insane nerd brother purchased the latest $200 monthly subscription to ChatGPT and I’m exhausting a portion of those 100 limited queries for yaoi and synziphosurine. ruan mei and prehistoric arthropods. chelicerae and snow fungus and music recommendations in reference to Tidal Memory in Exo. there’s a lot of things that make me doubt the character portfolio I’ve dragged and dropped and made for myself, but I feel somewhat upright in my sutured skin and wayward spine.

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“this is a once in a lifetime opportunity” girl’s gonna kill me after this

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Anaxagoras was the first recorded Greek philosopher to forsake mythology in favour of cosmic hypotheticals, conceptualizing nous, a natural force that set the universe in motion; something of a centrifuge to the initial vast mess of the universe, subsequently spinning, whirling, separating, and organizing the chaos to form the rational physical world — Is Anaxa the only scholar in Amphoreus to think of Aeons? Did THEY glance at him? Herta is an emanator of the Erudition, Nous - do the two formally interact?

Anaxa’s teased description reads:

There’s a scarce sliver of NPC dialogue referring to him, too.

> His faction within the Grove of Epiphany is NOUSPORIST!!!!!!!!

The Athenian general Pericles could not, even in his authority, shield his mentor from the consequence of radical sciences and subsequently impiety; exile. what the fuck happens to this man!!!!! they specifically say disrespected - is he overtly banished, or simply ostracized? the Chrysos Heirs seem fairly amicable, but the entire city broadly adheres to Tribbie’s prophecies. I’m so fucking excited for where they’re going with this

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Enemies in Amphoreus are stone sculptures before they’re engaged in combat, which might be another reference to Ratio.

this guy’s holding up a novel of sorts:

and the enemy models themselves - moreso than even the NPCs - are so very like the doctor’s. so is Sunday’s, but it’s something to consider?