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[oasis-nadrama]

When you can have multiple intimate relationships, each social link is lived exactly like it has the potential to be lived, there's no artificial limit anymore. Some relationships stay platonic, other ones turn sexual, other ones (or sometimes the same) turn romantic. No longer are we limited by this sad, artificial prison of exclusivity, and that brings us powerful authenticity.

[oasis-nadrama]

There's no such thing as positive idealization, because idealization is by essence deshumanization with added pedestal and glitter.

[oasis-nadrama]

“Absolute” freedom of speech

Absolute freedom of speech is NO FREEDOM OF SPEECH AT ALL, for it: 1 - Fails to take into account the massive difference in access to media according to privilege or prejudice 2 - Fails to take into account the equally massive difference in asservity, confidence, social energy, energy altogether, free time, social capital or cultural capital, as well as a number of more subtle problematics 3 - Allows hate speech to devaluate the speech of the oppressed categories 4 - Ultimately allows hate speech to establish and/or reinforce systems of domination which further diminish or even destroy the speech of the oppressed categories

[oasis-hexagonale]

Saviez-vous que le groupe de rock Kyo possède des vignobles ? Difficile de rester de bois face à pareille info...

J'ai hâte de voir sortir le pinot Kyo !

[oasis-hexagonale]

Avez-vous entendu parler de Tacoze, le nouveau pâtissier ? C'est la coqueluche, le favori des milieux militants, il produit merveille sur merveille, c'est la crème de la crème. Tout le monde a entendu parler du dessert Tacoze.

[shadesmcgee]

Husks and Their Memories

Intelligent husks store their memories in two places, their brain and their heart. Though the brain is where the most important memories are located as well as everything else. The most important memories are referred to as core memories, and they are what makes an intelligent husk themselves. That includes likes, dislikes, emotions, important events or moments…everything that makes them them.

While the brain is the main holder of memories, the heart works in a similar way. But rather than holding everything that makes an intelligent husk an individual, it holds copies of various things and memories. There are copies of some important memories, personal things such as bits and pieces of interests, personal history and personality. Really enough just to keep the husk functioning if something were to happen to the original head. It’s sorta like recording bits of a show. You have an idea what's going on, but no where near enough information to put all the pieces together. Though the loss of the intelligent husk’s original head can be disastrous.

The places that the memories are stored are the reason that a husk has to be killed a certain way. Their heart must be cut out and they must be decapitated before everything is set on fire. This guarantees that the husk is destroyed in their entirety and that they have no chance of regeneration. Because even without the head and the core memories, there is enough stored in the heart that the husk can function as a separate entity away from the head, get up after decapitation, and then go find and take a head to replace the one that’s been lost.

Replacement heads are where another problem lies for an intelligent husk. Normal elementals don’t have memories stored in their hearts, everything is stored in the head. So killing an elemental by any means is permanent. When an intelligent steals an elementals head, they not only regain the main control for their body and a place to store any memories that had been copied to the heart but to also make new core memories. But the elemental’s head still contains all of the memories of that Individual before they died, so now there’s all of those memories and experiences in there as well as the husks own. This can lead to the husk confusing their original memories with the memories of the replacement head’s. The longer the the husk has this replacement head the worse it gets.

Not only will the husk confuse their own memories that they brought with them with the replacements head, they are missing key bits of their own memories. Thus confusing and disorienting them more. As time goes on the husk may forget facts about themselves (like how Ashitaka can’t remember what his name is or much of anything before he lost his original head). By that point an intelligent husk with a replacement head are generally harmless because they’re so confused. They can’t remember who they really are or which memories is who’s, and they become more worried about figuring out who they were rather then wreaking havoc.

[shadesmcgee]

Info About Husks

Husks are the left overs of an elemental after they over use/exert their powers. It burns them out entirely, leaving them ‘husks’ of the person they once were. There are two types, normal and intelligent. Normal husks are run by instinct (much like zombies) and cannibalize other elementals in attempts to fill the void left by their elemental powers being burnt out. These husks are killed on sight when seen. The only way to kill a husk of either type is to decapitate them, cut out their heart and then set those plus the body on fire. Cutting off other parts of a husks’ body will cause that body part to regrow if the part can’t be reattached. The only body part that can’t actively regrow after being cut off is he head.

The other type of husks are intelligent and remember themselves before their abilities were burnt out. They are very clever and like normal husks cannibalize other elementals. Though unlike normal husks, intelligent husks eat other elementals not to fill a hole in themselves, but to temporarily regain control of the elements. Intelligent husks are the only kind of individual that can control more than one element at once.

Intelligent husks are very hard to kill. Though they can be killed the same way as a normal husk, they are much craftier. A husks’ head and body can work as separate entities when separated and the body will try to reattach the head immediately after it is cut off. Though if the head is disposed of before the husk can reattach it, it’s possible for the husk’s body to wonder around and kill someone else and take their head. There is a downside to this though, the husk will begin to confuse their own memories with the memories of the head they’ve taken.