#red-archivist rambles

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SOMEONE APOLOGIES-JON'ED MY LOCAL BOOKSHOP'S POST-IT WALL i'm going to get you

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Who up topping they Hill??

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Is it a breach of etiquette to republish one's oneshots as separate pieces when they were previously unrelated chapters in one collection?

I feel like reorganising

Would that be unseemly?

Would thou think me.... uncouth?

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making charm bracelets at a friend's bday so im being cringe on main

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ehehehe

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i gotta focus; im shifting into theory mode

so categories right? the categories for the fears? entities? of the protocol verse

we have the oiar's system of organising things- their overly (deliberately?) confusing ring binder of lists of names, things, places, people, and numbers- example:

CAT1RBC5257-12052022-09012024; Reanimation (Partial) -/- Regret [Email]

However, that's the 'official' governmental system- what if there is a different way to sort the cases and the externals, similar to smirke's fourteen (well, 15, but you know)

What if they can be sorted by alchemical elements?

Now, truthfully, there's no one consistent alchemical chart of elements/signs/notations; E.J. Holmyard's Alchemy (1957) lists several consisting of:

Fire, Earth, Water, Air, Gold, Silver, Copper, Iron, Mercury, Lead, Tin, Suphur, Salt, Aqua Fortis, Sal Ammoniac, Sublimation, Sublimate of Mercury, Realgar, Vitriol, Retort, Common Salt

However, given what Colin said at the end of the latest episode, I think we can restrict our categories to the three elements that make up the tria prima, the three primes of life

That's Mercury (☿), Sulfur (🜍), and Salt (🜔) - Mind, Spirit, and Body

If you remember when the logo for the show was revealed, I took a look at this specific part:

We have body and mind aligned with chevrons- implying they are being protected, whereas spirit surrounds them and sticks outwards- is that something more aggressive/used as a weapon (the externals?)

I haven't sat down to sort the different cases we've heard under these headings yet, but it's something I'm going to keep in mind going forward. All this alchemy stuff is so cool, can't to see how it will be implemented further

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ehehehe

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Well well well if it isn't mister 'I can sort unknowable eldritch forces into a human designed framework and think I have it all worked out' himself