Vosling

acidtygr

ahhhhh I also have a set of those, but it’s totally different. OP, I hope you’re okay with me stealing the format?

#the harbingers #iterationship

oh yes, please!!!

thoughts as I'm coming down from The Harbingers and return to my regular WOE.BEGONE brain. One ring may allow for time travel. You know what that means, right?

iterationshipping

#prev thank you for the tags! I love tags!#I do not know the amadeus movie but I am looking 👀#jonathan strange and mr norrrell is great I highly highly recommend it if you enjoyed the academia aspects of the harbingers #lots of footnotes #and babel broke my heart and it was worth it. I should reread

thelaurenshippen

live reaction image of me texting @gabrielurbinatm while listening to the newest episode of The Harbingers and YES I searched our texts so that I could reply to my own text from DECEMBER because polyamory is still my solution to this, it would be such a mess, it'd be great

#I am an amy is the doomscroller truther until further notice #I don't care for amy/adam but I'm here for kris/amy/adam #the harbingers

amy with two husbands the way she also has two rings

gabrielurbinatm

One down, seven to go.

Seven more episodes in Season One of The Harbingers.

Episode 10: Boston is out next week, 02/26!

#the harbingers #the harbingers spoilers

oh. the finale is "wrapped around your finger"? fun.

#the harbingers #harbingers podcast #harbingers pod #woe.begone #the good place #full metal alchemist #jonathan strange and mr norrell #babel rf kuang #and with this my tag spam will ease up a bit I imagine haha #audio drama #audio fiction

From episode five:

ADAM BLACKWELL: Better. Much better. But still not right. What’s “next to?” Three feet in the air behind Ms. Skinner is perfectly compliant with “next to” but all that’s gonna get us is coffee all over the carpet. You need to be exact. If you give the universe space to fuck you over, it will fuck you over. Try again.

So there is genuine anger in his voice as he says the bolded part. As of episode 14, he's only exploded a few watermelons, and as far as we know, Boston being sent to the moon wasn't an accident. So what memory is informing his anger here? How did the universe fuck him over through a lack of precision? Did he almost manage to save Boston, but then a mistake made him have to go the worse, half a million dead route?

I think he's thinking about the military testing, very early on. How there is a GI out there who lost his arm trying to get the ring off (it's been implied the other GI, who lost his fingers, had those medically reattached)

two soldiers experienced magical amputations and adam could not control the magic or stop it from getting worse.

you can bleed out in a matter of minutes when your arm is severed at the shoulder. There's no way to tourniquet it and it severs major arteries

so. I imagine adam saw this person die, or come close to dying

So while I think that's possible, that theft attempt caused the ring's magic to lash out uncontrollably, versus Adam causing damage because he messed up the vocabulary.

Yes but the two can be combined, right? He has seen the damage that his power can do to human bodies. He has learned how precise he needs to be with inanimate objects. He has seen watermelons explode in juicy red bursts. His mind and trauma can do the math

I mean, I could see the military also making him experiment on animals while he was there, some alive thing he had the right vocabulary for even back then. But I think seeing two people get heavily injured and bleed all over you while two others pin you down is traumatizing enough for him to get worked up even in adjacent "precision of language" discussions

From episode five:

ADAM BLACKWELL: Better. Much better. But still not right. What’s “next to?” Three feet in the air behind Ms. Skinner is perfectly compliant with “next to” but all that’s gonna get us is coffee all over the carpet. You need to be exact. If you give the universe space to fuck you over, it will fuck you over. Try again.

So there is genuine anger in his voice as he says the bolded part. As of episode 14, he's only exploded a few watermelons, and as far as we know, Boston being sent to the moon wasn't an accident. So what memory is informing his anger here? How did the universe fuck him over through a lack of precision? Did he almost manage to save Boston, but then a mistake made him have to go the worse, half a million dead route?

I think he's thinking about the military testing, very early on. How there is a GI out there who lost his arm trying to get the ring off (it's been implied the other GI, who lost his fingers, had those medically reattached)

two soldiers experienced magical amputations and adam could not control the magic or stop it from getting worse.

you can bleed out in a matter of minutes when your arm is severed at the shoulder. There's no way to tourniquet it and it severs major arteries

so. I imagine adam saw this person die, or come close to dying

clonerightsagenda

Maybe organ transplants have come a long way in the Harbingers universe but I really do not think Kris should have been doing all those recreational drugs while presumably on anti-rejection medications.

yeeeeeeep thought this too. Especially after listening to the audio drama Power Trip earlier this year

Skinner, to Adam and Amy at some point: