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Schiaparelli Spring 2022 Couture

english-idylls

Some illustrations from ‘An Introduction to Astronomy’ by Rev. John Davis (1868).

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“Your abilities declare the world real. Who, if not the Maker of this world, could grant such a gift?”

ihavegotnotimeforfeelingsorry

Model Minttu Vesala wears Balenciaga, posing in SSAW Spring Summer 2021 Cover #6

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Here’s my favourite. Guess why…

allright

came back wrong trope but the character knows that they came back wrong. they’re so acutely aware of how different they are now from how they were before that it drives them fucking insane. they’re stuck trying to return to somebody that’s long dead. they can never be the person they once were. everybody around them knows it. deep down, they know it too, but they’re trapped in a cycle of their own making. of trying to revive someone that no longer exists.

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this is maybe half of what hiraeth means- it specifically means a longing for wales, for cymru, and is intertwined innately with the process of colonization and anglicization. in early welsh poetry “hiraeth” refers to grief for a lost loved one, particularly after death, but the word came into prominent usage after attempts by the english to wipe the welsh language (cymraeg) entirely, especially during the 19th century. this process was particularly enforced in school contexts, meaning that children could be caned or flogged for speaking cymraeg instead of english. it isn’t nostalgia for a place you’ve never been, it is specifically a longing for one’s lost culture. the other brytthonic languages also have an equivalent: the cornish (kernewek) "hireth" and breton (brezhoneg) "hiraezh." the brittonic word hir is found in the word for standing stones, menhir, “long” (hir) “stones” (men), and also in the cymraeg hiraeth. it is both ontological and physical longing. the past is a physical place, and it is a place that has been colonized.

acrosscenturiesandgenerations

▪︎ Lane's Pocket Terrestrial and Celestial Globe.

Date: 1811

Place of origin: London

Maker: Nathaniel Lane

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• The Astral Man | Original piece by Sascha Schneider in 1903. • Yvonne | Origina piece by William-Adolphe Bouguereau in 1896. Touched by Clayshaper

just--space

The lightest (i.e., least massive) known star, OTS 44 [3000 x 2400]

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"I can fix him" this "I can make him worse" that Pathetic. I can love him so much that it changes the course of the entire narrative.

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The nature of the Veil

I never post meta because I prefer to write it out, but Wikipedia has some really great animations of the harmonic series. I saw it and thought… what if this is how the Veil works? What if the Veil is the dissonance that disrupts the consonant, harmonic nature between the real world and the Fade?

Fundamental

First overtone

Second overtone

Third overtone

There are waveform animations over at Wiki, but this presents a few ideas to me regarding partial breaches of the Veil/thinning of the Veil. I’m not going to go much farther than this conceptualization because I don’t think truly this is how magic works in Thedas, but when the Inquisitor says, “The Veil is more like a vibration,” this is what I think about.

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that moment when you ask patrick weekes about this and he replies with “spoilers”

siawrites

That is brilliant. What if THIS is the Chant?

lizardsexposed

If you overlap them as well they can become constructive or destructive.

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Yes… I started thinking about the Veil being an anti-soundwave which creates a dead space between the Fade and the real world, and then my brain went off on the music of the spheres and vibrations and M theory and dimensions and um… This doesn’t explain how mages open the Veil and pull from the Fade, or why blood magic thins the Veil, but it’s an interesting concept and what if those circles around Solas in his tarot card are soundwaves?

lizardsexposed

That’s such an interesting theory! And maybe the destruction would be destructive interference? Or maybe constructive with the harmonics. That would be such an interesting take on the science of magic then? The ability to channel energy or sound waves. Hell the rift mage path would make a lot of sense then. (kinda like biotics in ME with dark energy?)

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Force magic would make sense that way! I love force magic. Could you explain more about how this would explain rift magic?

the-queen-of-thedas

Off topic a bit… Doesn’t the name Corypheus mean composer/ conductor ?Bioware’s just toying with us now.

accidental-apostate

Corypheus DOES mean conductor! And if you’ll recall, the sentient darkspawn that the architect creates lament the inability to hear “the song” anymore. It drove the Mother MAD. What if the Blight is a physical expression of the “Song of the Veil.” The darkspawn hear the disruptive noise and are lulled by it. The song corrupts the Archdemon which thus leads a horde. After all, the first darkspawn were supposedly magisters who attempted to enter the Fade physically. Perhaps crossing the Veil exposed them to this song and they were eternally damned.

Also, if you remember, Justice describes the fact that Lyrium sings and Red Lyrium is BLIGHTED lyrium.

It sings a dark and corrupted song that drives people mad just as the Darkspawn were driven mad by the Veil song. HOLY SHIT.

Solas is a damn Mad Scientist Mozart.

My mind is blown right now/

the-queen-of-thedas

I’m just going to ramble about a couple of things.

If the veil is just deadspace/ resulting noise, then that would mean that there is no wavelength pressure because of the cancellation.

Blood magic increases anti-noise or the noise, disrupting the interface of the waves. (basically, Noise and Anti-noise cancel out, but blood magic gives more power to the wavelength to surpass the other. Making the other opposite force increase its amplitude to continue it’s cancellation equilibrium.)

This banter between Cole and Dorian:

Dorian: Cole, do you hear magic?

Cole: Yes. I do. Don’t you?

Dorian: Spells sometimes makes a sound but… I don’t think we hear the same thing.

Cole: Don’t your spells whisper things to you? What is and could be, music in the mind of strange, far away places?

Dorian: Not lately.

Cole: Then we don’t hear the same thing.

Mages (that don;t use blood magic) are able to match the harmonic of the veil/ deadspace. allowing them to pull magic from the fade naturally.

enterthedreams

But imagine Solas as being like Beethoven. A man who could once hear music, could revel in it and twist and shape it into intricate beauty. Then something happens and the music becomes tainted.

A dissonance appears, one that tears the symphony apart from the inside out. (Still think the Blight was Andruil’s fault, but ya know) In desperation, Solas locks away integral pieces of the music and falls asleep.

When he wakes up…the music isn’t weak, it’s GONE. He can’t hear it any longer. But he knows it’s still there because he can pull and tug and still create music. But it will never be the symphonies he remembers.

the-queen-of-thedas

Okay guy, but take this into account: The Titans, blight, and lyrium ALL sing. So the veil isn’t the only thing in Thedas that revolves around music or waves.

Thedas is just one big musical.