#dedifferentiation

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more shitpost

hey guys im here with MORE i had a vision this morning (og image under this one lol)

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You should talk about your 30s au in general it is deadass lost media...

Prospero in ruffles you will never not be iconic

Lotus hello! This is going to be long so brace yourself!

First off, I am most definitely surprised people are still interested in it! I will GLADLY talk about it! Or what I had planned.

It was titled Dedifferentiation, because well, science. I sort of set it aside as I wasn't quite AS hooked on it, and the plot would be a mess to write. But here I go! (cw for horror and some discussion about like. surreal elements?)

In a sort of a mock year of the 30s, because the Deans need a decade to set the New Years party in, Will attends a News Years party at the academy, and he gets haunted with his voice in the old radio, and in the air, and he's stuck holding his half-empty glass of water. The voice is telling him that he should leave. Leave what? The party? This place? It's not clear. Discussing about duality, the double, the psychological consequence of repressed thoughts, manifesting in the form of an idealized version of you; and the idea of "half glass of water full vs. half glass of water empty," this story follows the canon events that transpire in the webcomic, but how it leads to the eventual downward spiral of Will's "half a brain" mind, a piece of his thoughts slowly being put into his doppelganger, with his desires and what he needs to be better. Will goes missing the next day. He reappears with his double 2 weeks later, on January 19 (a nod to his birthday in the short story), but something's different with him. Prospero is worried.

It was sort of abandoned because I couldn't really figure out a plot, but I really, really love it because it gives me a chance to mess around with panels and draw analog horror.

As a treat for this amazing ask, I made these tonight just for this ask! Hope you enjoy the 2025 version! :D

I had made some art for it, but that's kind of old. But @/k3yboi has drawn quite a bit of art for it, which you can find HERE and HERE

Here's some of the recent individual arts he did for it, if you're curious! I love Will with an old 1930s radio.

Here's some excerpts of some stuff I wrote earlier this year! It's a bit old but for a context:

Ada and Will make a bet who can get a New Years kiss first.

It's almost midnight and Will goes to sit outside. Someone accompanies him.

Seperate excerpt, they're still outside in the hall.

Uhh that's really about it! Thank you for the AMAZING ask!! I hope this answers SOME question. I never planned to do much with it, because it was sort of an impulsive thing. So I'll gladly spoil stuff LMFAO

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hate having au ideas and not actually committing to making them. Like a comic or something. but hou damn am I sucker for analog horror and New Years.

How it feels to have the passion but not the talent:

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how i feel after naming my aus after scientific processes/science

[equilibriosynclastic]

When two separate movements always occur together, the brain maps them together

Merzenich has described a number of “brain traps” that occur when two brain maps, meant to be separate, merge… When a musician uses two fingers together frequently enough while playing an instrument, the maps for the two fingers sometimes fuse, and when the musician tries to move only one finger, the other moves too. The maps for the two different fingers are now “dedifferentiated.” The more intensely the musician tries to produce a single movement, the more he will move both fingers, strengthening the merged map. The harder the person tries to get out of the brain trap, the deeper he gets into it, developing a condition called “focal dystonia.”

—Norman Doidge, M.D. (2007). The brain that changes itself. New York City: Penguin Books.