#tria prima

[fleshwizard]

According to Paracelsus, the three primes or tria prima – of which material substances are immediately composed – are :

Salt or body, the principle of non-combustibility and non-volatility

Sulfur or soul, the principle of combustibility

Mercury or spirit, the principle of fusibility and volatility

(additional writings about the tria prima here)

[progestereon]

What happens if I grope all of the girls

Nyx would get all surprised and hissy and fluff up before yeowling at you.

Lucetta would moan and moo before turning around and kissing you.

Morgan would moan and get all blushy before flusteredly turning around and trying to talk to you like a grope is a typical greeting.

Theion would turn around, push you to the ground, pin you down, and roughly start groping you back.

Caduceus would immediately cum in her panties, hardening so quickly and so intensely that she gets lightheaded. She wouldn't be able to cool off for the whole rest of the day.

Euchar wouldn't make a sound, would turn around calmly and steadily, and gently grope your boobs while making Direct Eye Contact with you.

[lonelyeyespedro]

[crashhole]

The new X-Men series were recently announced including a brand new title starring Emma Frost, Kitty Pryde, and a trio of brand new characters called Exceptional X-Men

We haven’t been teased with much, but I noticed that the new kids resemble the three alchemical primes of Salt, Sulfur and Mercury collectively known as the Tria Prima

Salt- Melee: Sturdy, Physical

Sulfur- AXO (Abandoned Explosive Ordnance): Combustion, Fire

Mercury- Bronze: Mutable, Mailable, Undefined Shape. Also Metallic themed

Kitty and Emma’s powers also create a duality. Emma’s Diamond Form is Super Dense but is also very Clear and even Light Refracting. Kitty’s powered form is Absolute Intangibility, almost like a ‘Shadow’ for which she derives her code name Shadowcat from. I wonder how these ideas might analog symbolically into the narrative.

*This analysis is based on speculation over prerelease teasers.

[aggressivementalitydaddy]

The Tria Prima. Handsome band boys bantering, and Mercury in the middle.

Original meme template I referenced is by Muumitfan, I believe, but correct me if I am wrong.

[gaoau]

salt

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Albedo tastes like the mountain and the falling snow in each of his kisses. he's cold by nature, [Name] knows, even as they move their lips down to his throat. every inch of skin they trace lacks warmth, but they hardly let it deter them as he tilts his head back. with a graze of their teeth against the mark on his neck, Albedo sucks in a sharp breath.

salts and the physical body, both the principle of non-combustibility and non-volatility are laws no amount of alchemy can refute. despite his fact-oriented thought process, despite valuing trustworthy data over hunches, despite knowing bodies can't fuse, there is no such principle. their warm breath washes over his collarbone; Albedo knows bodies cannot fuse, but this warmth feels so unbearably close, he could almost dissolve into [Name].

his fingers tighten around their shoulders, a startled gasp tumbling from his lips when [Name] bites down. they pull away instantly and find his eyes squeezed shut. he struggles to flutter them open, looking at them with a reassuring smile. "i'm alright, you can keep going," he breathes out heavily. [Name] hums, nodding, and then dips back down to his shoulder, brushing his hair out of the way with their hand.

logically, Albedo is more aware than anyone, combustibility does not occur on the human body spontaneously. [Name] might as well light him on fire when they kiss the base of his neck. with their palms firmly holding his waist, he takes up space in the universe, one body to contain together his spirit, his identity. [Name] fills up the voids that make him so cold to the touch.

it's a feeling of borderline addiction. Albedo sighs, "this…" searching for words. addiction to the unknown, reaching for everything that manages to catch his attention, only to be left empty when it's proven true or false. "i want to understand more of things like these…" addicted to the mystery, but then what will he have when nothing is endless and everything is known?

(Albedo had heard about a repeated offender returning to the Dragonspine waters on multiple occasions despite Eula dragging them out by their collar countless times. he watched, curiously, waiting as the knights once again caught [Name] at the water's edge, satchel and clothes forgotten on the rocks.

as they sighed defeated and surrendered with their hands up, he chose to reveal himself. he spoke with smiles and diplomacy, "please, don't worry about them. they're with me."

"oh." the knights shared glances of suspicion. "…yes, of course, chief alchemist." by the looks on their faces, nobody bought such a blatant lie. "please, excuse us," they dismissed themselves anyway, because [Name] had already been a permanent nuisance for months.

admittedly, Albedo never thought he'd stay so close to [Name], but his curiosity encouraged him to reach further. from the oxygen filtering mask they modified themselves to the natural warmth radiating from their skin, he simply couldn't ignore new knowledge right at his fingertips.)

[Name]'s warm breath traces the star on his skin and sends shivers down his spine. "there's still a lot about human nature that i don't know." his voice trembles slightly, words heavy and quiet. it's the way his brain works. past physical intimacy, his identity shines brighter in his thoughts.

it makes [Name] chuckle into his neck. "isn't that what makes us human?" they bring him closer with a tug; he feels their heart beating in his chest. "we're the product of billions of years of coincidences and accidents. the fact that you and i are here right now is one in a googolplex." wonderful words they speak, like gold pouring from their lips, like rays of sunlight against the snow. 

it's warm as they lend him their blood to burn. Albedo hums, eyes closed. his hands bunch up their clothes on instinct. he can't tell a human what human nature is like. [Name] invites him to participate so he can learn more.

they pull away to gaze at his face. carefully, they loosen his grip on their shoulders, his fingers cold against theirs as they hold him tenderly. "do you really need to understand everything about your own nature? it's just there, don't you think?" so bright and new, so innovative. they can tell Albedo is simply stealing heat from them.

but they kiss him anyway, long and delicate. a sudden clarity as he offers them a breathless simper. "you're right. it's just here."

his heart begins to beat and to skip. with all his experiments on the path of creating life, Albedo considers there is no greater miracle than cations and anions mingling like this. no creation of his could possibly compete with [Name] bleeding into him. closer, more, warmer. even if he were to freeze, his physical body can feel the fire from the outside in.

[pathofregeneration]

Hermetic Tria Prima, part I

“Therefore, let my child be aware that the first matter of everything in the world has been Mercury; since water existed before there was even time, and the Spirit of the Lord rested on it. But what kind of water was it? Was it cloudwater? Or another kind that one could pour? No, but it was a dry, slimy water into which God set His earth, which was His Sulphur, so that the earth coagulated the water, and there arose from it the four Elements which had been locked in these two by command of God and His supreme Will. Mercury dissolves the Sulphur, and Sulphur coagulates Mercury, and these two cannot be one without the other. Mercury is never without the Sulphur because it is transformed into it. The nature proper of Mercury is that it dissolves its Sulphur and makes it white, and the nature of the dry Sulphur purges and congeals its Mercury. As these two cannot be one without the other, they also cannot be without Salt. The latter is the principal means whereby Nature accomplishes her generation of all things in the whole world, in vegetables, minerals, as well as in animals, which teaching of mine you should well understand.

For if Nature did not have Mercury in her generation straight at the beginning of the original composition of every created thing, the latter could not keep together in its natural moisture, which is one of the most necessary ingredients for keeping a thing in its essence. And if she did not have the Sulphur, the moist parts would not be congealed. Likewise if she did not have the Salt (which is the means whereby she connects both and causes one to enter the other), it would neither mingle with anything in the world nor unite with it, because there would be no sharpness for entering, and it could not unite with anything. Consequently, these three, namely Mercury, Sulphur, and Salt, are none without the other; where you find one of them, you find them all three, and there is no created thing in the world wherein you do not find them. From these three everything has arisen that is in the world.”

— Isaac Hollandus, Opera Vegetabilia

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Sulphur, Mercury, Salt — 18th-century engraving Based on the work of Basil Valentine (Coloured by Adam McLean)

[abyssus-aeterna]

Tria Prima by Black Ink Kagami