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The depictions of the Highest Light in 3.01 are really architecturally interesting in that it appears significantly housed inside hollowed out mica bergs, rather than simply sitting on top of them as described. Either way though is really interesting to think about in terms of building processes, since mica is such a dangerous material. How do you build foundations and carve out spaces at that scale safely?
But, then we do know that, despite its dangers, mica behaves in an extremely predictable manner, which makes the process of digging through mica generally safe if you design around that. Predictability allows for its more volatile and incendiary characteristics to be easily and safely accounted for. So, for excavation in the Highest Light to really be of any concern, "a whole lot of very specific things would have had to go wrong," to quote the miners who worked on...
Oh.
What if the reason it's difficult to work out a satisfactory answer to why someone would want to cause the tearror or destroy Midst or any of the other results of blowing up the moon is that "blow up the moon" isn't the method, it's the goal itself? What if the timing during the Midst sale announcement is not because tanking the Trust economy is the primary objective, but because the resulting economic freefall is convenient for a distraction: the Trust will predictably prioritize fixing the economy over properly investigating what happened and why? What if this storm pointedly and conspicuously brewing is a plot point because the Highest Light will be functionally snowed in: nobody can leave, everyone will be trapped there?
What if Midst's moon was a practice run?
The Highest Light is on an islet of mica.
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ifyoucandaniel · 1 year
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Take a look at my boyfriend, he’s the only one I got…🎵🎶🦋
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wavesoutbeingtossed · 14 days
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Randomly thinking about “tolerate it” (narrator voice: it was not random) and how under the cloak of fiction it is ostensibly inspired by works like “Rebecca” (which Taylor said she read during the 2020 lockdowns I believe?), with the line of “you’re so much older and wiser” indicating that the speaker is significantly younger and inexperienced compared to the person she’s speaking to and a pretty direct reference to the plot of the book.
But I saw something somewhere once that stuck with me about how it might not be referring to relative age between the characters but chronological age as in the passage of time in a relationship. And that made me think about how in a contemporary context, it might not necessarily be referencing an actual age gap between the two characters, but rather a sarcastic or cynical response to the man’s claims that he has matured (“you’re so much older and wiser [than you were before/than you were when we met/etc.]”), which then made me think about that line in relation to the woman. And that it could be taken like, “you act like you’ve matured so much in our time together and like you know everything, while I’m supposedly still stuck as the girl I was when we first met.”
Which then made me think of the “right where you left me” of it all and did you ever hear about the girl who got frozen time went on for everyone else she won’t know it and the bit in Miss Americana where she talks about how celebrities get frozen at the age at which they got famous, and how she’s had to play catch up in a lot of ways not just in her emotional growth but kind of in general. (Which also made me wonder if she’s ever been called out for immaturity/lack of curiosity/lack of education about things in her life…)
Which then made me think about the rest of the song, and @taylortruther’s posts yesterday about “seven” and “Daylight” and the way Taylor idealizes her youth yet contrasts it with an almost sinister reality in its wake, and the line, “I sit by the door like I’m just a kid,” because the discussion raised that her relationship let her recapture some of the childlike joy and wonder she’d lost. So this line is a double-edged sword: the speaker sits by the door with childlike hope that the person will come home and cherish her, but on the darker side, feels like the child dealing with the monsters she doesn’t have names for yet and the feelings of isolation she felt as she aged.
I’m not saying the song is necessarily autobiographical; like most of the songs on folkmore, it’s clearly a fictionalized story based on media she’d consumed and created, but we know a lot of the fictional songs were infused with her own feelings and experiences and… This idea swirling in my head picked up steam and now I kind of can’t stop thinking about it. Sorry but I’m a little obsessed now.
Like maybe it might start to shed light on why she identified so strongly with the novel in the first place…
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chandra-nalaar · 2 years
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hawke is cassandra’s blorbo
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alexandrarosa · 1 year
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Lucemond and Rhaenicent or as I like to call it the disaster gays/lesbians who lack the communication skills that could prevent a war
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ghostofasecretary · 3 months
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it's been a while since i've cried hard enough to have a headache but. sure got there today, babes!
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tf-2-brainrot · 6 months
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Guys, important question!!
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skitskatdacat63 · 1 year
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2005 Malaysian Grand Prix - Fernando Alonso(my personal post-race highlights)
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orphyd · 14 days
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My mother has returned and guess what...the PC can stay-
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#listened to a podcast on commonplace books last night and realized that many people do not actually use...a book#which was perhaps something of an obvious revelation but it remains revelatory to me#two of the guys in the discussion use physical note cards and one uses evernote (or did four years ago) so I thought 'huh'#'maybe I'll try evernote'#cut to me checking out four different cloud-based note-taking systems because evernote doesn't allow for nearly as much personalization#--with their free version as they used to#all that to say I then opened up The Problem of Pain to copy over the sections I've highlighted anddddd there are a lot more than I thought#the reason I really really want to get into this system is I want a way to organize my various trains of thought#so I can carry on a coherent discussion if the need arises#but also the one guy who uses the cloud-based system also has a whole section of his commonplace dedicated to quotes from friends and famil#which 1) reminded me of Kate always keeping a quote book for her various trips#and 2) reminded me of all of the quotes I've saved over the years from friends#it's just a fun little detail#and FINALLY while discussing this they mentioned a student who received glowing feedback on an assignment and told her friend she was--#putting it in her 'flex book' -- AKA the book of things she can look at when she wants to flex on herself#which I think a lot of us creatives especially can benefit from#(I have a little collection of kind feedback I've received on my writing)#(which has come in handy lately)#so! I am once again attempting to compile a commonplace book#and telling myself as I go that there's no harm in not having started this ten years ago and I will in fact survive#if you made it this far I love you and please be sure you're drinking enough water
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caffeiiine · 5 months
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one more thing thats been rotating around my head:
my school anime club hosts an anime con in the spring and i am genuinely so excited bc club members are staff amnd we are hsoting it! and i can host a panel!!!
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raethereptile · 6 months
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I refuse to believe that mi1 was the only time Ethan and Max met. I bet they met up every few years and traded intel or weapons or connections and every time she called him dear boy and they danced the edge of seduction, freaking out whichever team Ethan had at his back that week, and I bet they played the game and played it well, and over time become as fond of eachother as they were scared of eachother, and enjoyed the manipulation and betrayal and use because they knew that the other would be a good sport about it and maybe they saved eachothers lives or livelihoods a couple of times and maybe fucked a time or two for old times sake and
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andi-o-geyser · 8 months
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just another day wasting away in margaritaville trying to figure out how the actual fuck the Grand Army of the Republic is organized. send assistance i am shaking sobbing crying in a corner
#no like. does anybody understand it please help me#i get how it’s divided#i even made an entire flow chart#but it’s the numbering i’m confused with cause none of it makes any fucking SENSE#and i don’t know know if i just don’t know how military battalions are numbered but this makes less than 0 sense even if i did know#because like. ok so for example: the 327th star corps is in the 2nd systems army. but how is that possible? why are they called the 327th?#because there are 10 systems armies; each with 2 sector armies; each with 4 corps#and if i know math (which i occasionally do) that means there are 80 corps in the entire GAR (4 for each of the 20 sector armies)#so then HOW#is there a corps in the 300s#and that’s not even the worst example#okay so we all know the 212th? our most beloved attack battalion of gold babes?#they’re in the 3rd systems army which means they should have the 5th and 6th sector armies (1st system army has 1+2 2nd systems has 3+4 etc#but then they have the 7th sky corps. and if there are 8 corps per systems army and they’re in the THIRD systems army#how do they have the 7th corps? and how are they only the 212th battalion? cause there’s 512 battalions in the first systems army ALONE!#so either it’s straight up wrong and their battalion number should be more like 1212 (in the thousands!)#or each sector/sustems army has their own numbering of battalionsthat goes from 1-512; and same for their corps?#so it would be like ‘we’re the 404th battalion of the 6th corps of the 4th systems army’?#but then that still contradicts the existence of actual corps like the 91st mobile recon corps and the 41st elite corps!#so are there two different systems of numbering it? do corps and legions and battalions all number and name their divisions differently?#i wrote so much i ran out of tags but serious am i just dumb or am i right and none of this makes sense#i spent literally 2 hours getting distracted by this conundrum today#after spending 4 hours last night understanding how the army is divided cause i was curious about what the numbering meant#LITTLE DID I KNOW I MEANT NEXT TO FUCKING NOTHING#this is what happens when i get bored smh#if anybody understands military structure and im legit just missing something PLEASE tell me i am so curious#star wars#the clone wars#andis thought geyser
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chuuyasboots · 3 months
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i dreamed a LOT last night and it was very strange.
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crusaderchinchilla · 5 months
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emily-mooon · 8 months
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Why do I feel like Mike would adopt a sphynx cat when he moves out?
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