#blackbox

[hyombus]

Sitting With Friends 9/xx/2025, 10/xx/2025

[crimson-rain-sought-flower]

[star-cream]

dont worry about it bro

[victoriadallonfan]

4.7.O – ESC

Orion Previous Chapter Next Chapter The room was so small it made Orion feel antsy.  Long enough to lie down in, but still small, and he cou

This was all kinds of fucked up. I love it

- Orion 🤝 Winnie: obsessing over A and loving her music

- It's really interesting how Orion is sort of deifying A through this art. Also really fascinating that he places her across Pine. Like, pining for Pine and A in a sense, as well as how A is connected to nature (literally having a nature planet)

- Also interesting that A has picked up a love of painting and drawing and Orion has found a love of drawing/etching

- I do love Ketu and his squads badass cyborgs. A sniper cyborg and someone cloaked in living nanotech is so badass

- Ahhh so there is a huge colony in the ring that is literally fighting the machines. Interesting.

- West having leg exoskeletons with rocket packs is so fun. God I'd love those. We still don't know what her son can do yet

- Rhine is fucking amazing and horrifying. An Intelligence Programmer who chopped off his own head and copied his brain into a chip, then inserted it into a mechanical body that sounds like a crossover between General Grievous and a Necron, with cyborg animal limbs and heads.

- Oh and he's also copying and chipping people in his "colony", sometimes multiple times, and sticking them in mechanical bodies attached to their original body's corpses. Lovely.

- I feel so bad for Tyrant: sent into the Belt with chip technology that lets him mindcontrol anyone it touches, refuses to do so out of morals, and is now stuck inside of one of Rhines machines…

- Also poor Spur: Rhine wants to copy her mind, take her apart mentally and physically, and basically torture her to "cure" her while keeping her trapped in a mechanical body. Good on Orion for stopping that

- Tyrant joins the party! Love that for him

- Oh god, Blackbox got hit with a Glyph that makes it so that anytime he is about to doze off, he's hit with 300x the normal adrenaline in his brain and not even his Onboard can suppress it with sleep influencers. He says he's about to die nooooo

- We also learn from Rhine, that the animal machines are made by an Intelligence, but that Intelligence was ordered to by someone with A's appearance

- I say A's appearance because there has been a lot of discussion of how A has a lot of doppelgängers in story: Hruby was one of them, Zia is another (including A's brain scans!), and the fake A created by the conspiracy that influences Onboards. And this chapter introduces the idea of copying and cloning people via brain scans with some degradations.

- Is this really A? A duplicate? A fake? All of the above?

- Also, the Belt is very Winnie coded: cyborg animals hunting (like A saw Winnie do), Supergreen like in Winnie's ship, and vents/shafts that are only ideal for the Sleek to traverse… not to mention all the A mentions. Is Winnie a part of the Belt's creation?

[ronthedunedain]

Orion is truly a Wildbow protagonist now. His own hands, his own mind betraying him. The only part of his new life that he still enjoyed - crafting, drawing , making art - manipulated and shredded as it is, taken away in a few seconds of distorted, malevolent noise.

But, despite everything, he found someone to live. Wildbow's writing doomed yaoi again, all's right with the world.

[raurquiz]

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[eddathegreat]

Alright, Seek 5.4.O was a 'put off sleep for a bit to emotionally decompress' sort of chapter

Holy fuck

It's really striking in comparison to a lot of post-apocalypse stuff like zombies, because the zombies or whatever other monster is usually weaker in some way.

But the cogs are just fucking nightmares on every level. There's no convenient headshot rule to disable them, they're just really tough with overwhelming offensive abilities and will always be replaced even if you do manage to kill one, while the survivors accrue more and more damage.

The reason people are present in this hellscape has less to do with any survivors succeeding for very long and more to do with the Belt just repeatedly sending people to replace the ones that die off.

It's so terribly bleak, a big horrible grind, minds and bodies deteriorating at a rapid pace, and the characters are aware that they just don't have very long and are desperate to accomplish anything they can, even if it's just to leave something behind of humanity.

[caesarandthecity]

Saturn — The Tyrant of Time, the Gatekeeper of Maturity

Saturn is not a benevolent father. He is a devourer. In Roman myth, he is the god of agriculture, but also of time and limitation. He castrated his father, Uranus, with the sickle — an act of rupture, a declaration that eternity would no longer reign untouched. Time had entered the world, and with it, decay.

Saturn’s greatest act of tyranny was his fear: the prophecy that his own children would overthrow him. To prevent destiny, he swallowed them whole. This is the essence of control: the desperate attempt to freeze reality, to prevent change, to dominate the inevitable.

But time cannot be stopped. Jupiter, hidden and preserved, returned to defeat him. The son dethrones the father. The cycle completes. Saturn becomes the shadow — dethroned but not erased, banished but not powerless.

In astrology, Saturn is called the Lord of Karma. His lessons are not whispered, but carved into bone. He governs Capricorn, the climber who builds slowly, painfully, brick by brick. He rules the Return — the 29-year cycle where illusions collapse and only the real remains. To face Saturn is to face your own falsity.

Saturn’s power is not in granting; it is in denying. His scythe cuts away the excess, the illusions, the masks. He is not there to comfort you. He is there to initiate you.

In truth, Saturn is not the enemy. He is the mirror of your mortality. The keeper of the gate that asks: Can you carry weight? Can you build with stone? Can you endure the silence of time itself?

Without Saturn, we remain children. With Saturn, we die and are reborn.

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