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new music drop on midst.co!!!!!!!

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oh shit ?! so s1 is over, but we get an "interlude"?

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holy shit. holy shit? hey. holy shit. so episode 18 is the finale of unend season one, but season two is confirmed to be coming. and hey? what a fucking ending. holy. fucking. shit.

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I think what gets me about Dot is that they're so young. Cleo notes immediately before the tearror that they're probably actually younger than she is. It's not clear how long they were in Coenobium, but their lack of familiarity with the broader cosmos and their overall fears—of failing, of their emotions catching up with them, of being found out—gives me the sense that they are, in a sense, running from something, if only just themself, but that also begets the question of why. It also becomes clear in this episode from Artifice that it is possible that they will fail to become a Mother, and that that does come with consequences, but we don't know what those consequences are, or whether Dot knows either. In general I keep wondering how much they actually understand about what the realization or actually being a Mother entails, materially. I want to know what they've consciously versus unconsciously given up to pursue this, and why. It feels like there is a why, somewhere, given their youth and their private feelings, but I can't even begin to guess what it is. Where did they come from? How did they come to this training? What do they hope to do with it and what is motivating them to strive for that? Do they even hope to do anything besides leaving something behind?

This is not at all coherent and I'm really just asking questions because I am [RATTLES BARS] but I am eternally just thinking about Dot desperately offering to tell Cleo more about them, implying there IS STUFF TO TELL, and then NOT DOING THAT BECAUSE THEY'RE THE ONLY ONE WHO REMEMBERS THEY EVEN OFFERED.

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Unendbians <3

pre-journey version below

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(unend e16 spoilers!)

cleo you are the cutest person in the cosmos

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Unend Departure Dinner

Celebrating the maiden voyage of the Ship

Courtesy of Chef Quino Del Belsaban (chef) and sous-chefs Voro and Mikelord

We will tonight celebrate the commencement of the journey, and it’s our pleasure this evening to treat you all to a very special and unique singular meal, compliments of the Cosmological Consortium’s Highest Light subcommittee.

We begin with ephemera of mineralflower enclosing lavenderwater-infused mirrorhawk mousse, dusted with riftgrass pollen, nestled on a sprouted microbloom tuft, crowned with edible Serapha Nebulaflorum.

And of course our signature cocktail tonight the Aurora Prismatica, exquisite Empyrean lavender and silk cordial, layered with zephyr of eldermanflower, misted with Alpinian plume of Verdure and lightly smoked with charcoal of Sequestrian hacklethorn. I personally recommend you enjoy it on the rocks – perhaps unorthodox, but just trust us on this one.

Buloga pearl caviar tartare, accompanied by shaved roast of sloe, crowned with frosted Ebonreef truffle, drizzled with 100-traversal-aged prang syrup and garnished with chinchona leaf. Enjoy.

The palate-cleansing salad is up next. My friends, a medley of crisp frisée, tender mini prunus hearts, and heirloom rubus misted with essence of blackened citrus of elderthief, sprinkled with delicious and nutritious high-altitude breadmoss and garnished with greens from the gardens of Gloria. Please enjoy.

Our main entree, my friends: sovereign spice-seared filet of Vildefeluvian lake grouper, ladled with reduction of burk buranah, brushed with crushed pistachio and golden salt, served atop a bed of rare black macrograin sourced from the marshes of Ackute. Dig in.

Miravette Reserve, an aromatic honeylight wine from the Highest Light? Quite delicate, notes of straw and almond, very well-balanced, very intriguing

And for our grand finale, exquisite bombe of blonded and blued chocolate mother-of-mica, encased in a delicate wind-woven sugar dome, decorated with self-caramelizing tufted sugar frond, rosewater foam, and edible silverleaf confetti, and finished of course with a touch of our most rare and fine melt-velvet orchid extract. It’s been our pleasure to serve you this evening everyone. Thank you so much.

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UNEND is a story where a character can proclaim that they "could discover a new month" with no context or explanation and then five episodes later you understand the exact physical mechanism by which one might discover a new month.

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unend e16 spoilers

so this is the entire remaining crew! what a skeleton crew, oh man. its scary. terrifying even. the delta is such a weird place i feel like literally anything could happen

felix

merlin

the biological man

cleophee

the granddaughter

artifice

tzila

rawfield

everett

micky

hambing

(and omelette)

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Every week, I listen to Unend and think:

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unend early access e15 spoilers

they did NOT just casually throw out that tzilla was the naturalist the whole time. TZILLA? MY BELOVED TZILLA? MIDST REPRESENT? AND she's one of the last 9 crew members? TZILLA????!!!!??? going to the super dangerous delta???!???

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relistening to a lot of the stationary hill parts of midst and i just cant get over how beautiful of a setting it is. god, the people are just so alive and the town really feels like a living breathing place with its own identity

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It is a lovely day in the deep Fold and you are an unlucky big face

(or, UNEND episode 11)

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(spoilers for early access episode)

that conversation with artifice at the end of e14 gagged me bad. i got really scared as soon as cleo told artifice that dot was scared (theyre supposed to be emotionless!!! cleo!!!) but i did NOT expect him to immediately start railing on cleo. im really curious to see what happens with dot because i really cant tell whether they actually want to achieve revelation or not atp and im scared for their future.......

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the fold is really just heaven for people who hate overhead lights. imagine a world where its dark all the time and the only lights that are allowed are soft and undulate gently

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relistened to the final scene of midst...... lark you will always be famous... midst you will always be legendary