#protocule

[theseuscloud]

Protocule is the new polyarchives send post

[ceaselessims]

gwen being dragged kicking and screaming into the protocule while celia is dreaming about the smell and taste of alice's perfume

[fox-guardian]

[ID: Digital meme drawings of Celia, Alice, Sam, and Gwen from The Magnus Protocol on a gray background. Celia is a slim Korean woman with short black hair and glasses. Sam is a shorter fat South Asian man with short, curly black hair and a mustache. Alice is a tall, lanky white trans woman with freckles, piercings, pink cat-eye glasses, and shaggy brown hair. Gwen is a short white woman with blonde hair in a ponytail. All their outfits vary slightly in each image.

The first image is Celia "cicada blocking" both Alice and Sam at once, by cornering them and death-gripping the walls around them with all four limbs. Her torso is at their collective eye-level, and they are both wide-eyed and blushing at her.

The second image is a redraw of the "cat pulling two people by their sweaters" meme in which Celia is the screaming cat pulling on Sam and Alice. Celia has been drawn via tracing over the cat directly, and is very small and oddly proportioned as a result.

Third image is another meme redraw featuring Sam and Celia embracing and kissing while Sam holds a drink in his hand behind Celia's back. Alice is squatting behind them, casually sipping from Sam's drink, despite holding a drink of her own.

Fourth image is of a lower quality than the others and shows Alice standing in a corner while Gwen attempts to crowd her in with both arms. She is significantly shorter and her hands are placed around Alice's waist height. Alice looks down at her, unimpressed, and Gwen is sweating.

Fifth image is a meme redraw showing Gwen standing on Sam's knees while he holds her up by her legs. Sam is winking at the viewer while Gwen leans her arm against the wall near Alice's head. She is still sweating but now Alice is covering her blushing face with her hands while looking up at her.

Sixth image is a meme redraw showing Alice smugly lifting Gwen and holding her against a wall while Gwen looks surprised and flustered at her.

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idk why this last episode had me in a meme-making mood but here we are. featuring a lot of wall-related shenanigans and celia trying desperately to keep the gang together by any means necessary. also dyhard <3

[humansbgone]

I have a couple questions about your super cool world (love your work!)

Can Macravolute arthropods see/smell/perceive their "normal" sized counterparts with the naked eye, or do they need magnifying tools like we do for microbes?

Are Macravolute cells (blood cells, muscle cells, neurons, etc) the same size as non Macravolute cells and there's just more of them to make a bigger body, or do they have the same number of cells all scaled up make the body bigger?

Magnification tools are indeed required for macrovolutes to see protocules, which is why their discovery is fairly recent! General Formicosan macrovolute regard for "protocule theory" is about the same as for evolution in 1950s America.

That said, they *can* smell their protocules. The faint smells of people where there were none were historically attributed to the trickery of spirits!

Scaled up! There are gigantic demivolute versions even of some single-celled organisms, as we saw with the diatoms on the bladder Diatom, in Gregorsa's lecture for episode 5. The Unknown Nature enables a *lot* of things that should be physically impossible, not just where it's related to gravity!

[hikaaa-bi]

so they’re both shit at comforting each other, no wonder they broke up lmao

[necromancers-incorporated]

Just saw someone on Tiktok say "I can't decide if ship Alice and Sam or Alice and Gwen, they're both good" like. What?? You can ship both??? Why are we limiting ourselves people? It's called the Protocule for a reason!! Heck, throw Celia, Lena, and Colin into the mix, have some fun with it!!!

[radioactive-yuri]

protocule is something alice is actively trying to make happen, and something lena secretly fantasizes about. the other 3 have never considered it. not yet

[mita-vittua-olivia]

have a silly gwen (she looks a little insane but that’s okay)