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laughingpinecone · 5 years

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Trick or Treat time!

I am laughingpineapple on AO3

It’s a long list of characters so the specific requests aren’t overly detailed, please draw at will from my general likes and general fandom likes in addition or as an alternative to any of those!

All requests are art or fic - for art, the stuff I like is the kind that depicts the characters doing something. I’ll aways be happier with a very simple drawing of two characters walking together or sharing a cup of coffee than with an ambitious composition that looks like an Avengers poster.

They are also all for tricks and treats, except for The Swapper which is just tricks, but ignore at will for extra gifts.

Likes: worldbuilding, slice of life (doubly so if the event the fic focuses on is made up but canon-specific), missing moments, 5+1 and similar formats, bonding and emotional support/intimacy, physical intimacy, lingering touches, loyalty, casefic, surrealism, magical realism, established relationships, future fic, hurt/comfort or just comfort from the ample canon hurt, throwing characters into non-canon environments, banter, functional relationships between dysfunctional individuals, unexplained mysteries, bittersweet moods, journal/epistolary fic, dreams and memories and identities, canon-adjacent tropey plots, outsider POV, UST, exploration of secondary bits of canon, leaning on the uniqueness of the canon setting/mood, found families, characters reuniting after a long and/or harrowing time, friends-to-lovers, road trips, maps, mutual pining, cuddling, wintry moods, the feeling of flannel and other fabrics, ridiculous concepts played straight, sensory details, sickfic, places being haunted, people being haunted, the mystery of the woods, small hopes in bleak worlds, electricity, places that don’t quite add up, mismatched memories, caves and deep places, distant city lights at night

Cool with: any tense, any pov, any rating, plotty, not plotty, IF, nerdy canon references, unrequested characters popping up

DNW: non-canonical rape, non-canonical children, unrequested ships, canon retellings, consent issues

Twin Peaks: Harry Truman, James Hurley, Frank Truman, Albert Rosenfield, Tammy Preston, Monica Bellucci, Margaret Lanterman, Denise Bryson, Cynthia Knox, Constance Talbot, Bosomy Woman, Annie Blackburn, Jade, Wally Brando, Diane Evans, Doris Truman, Lucy Moran

The mystery of the woods. How do they relate to the woods, what do they gain and what do they lose in the woods. Case fic but they don’t find out jack shit, someone disappears, David Bowie was there, it’s complicated. Fragmented, shifted, mirrored identities. New Lodge spaces. The risks of staring into the void for too long. Gentle illusions. Transcendence. The moon. Static buzzing. Any title from the s3 ethereal whooshing compilation used as a prompt, actually. For treats, all these spooky things can remain in the background while the warmer hues of canon (all the food and cute friendships and Canadian geese and sparks of joy) take center place!

AUs and fusion AUs are great for this fandom! I have Final Fantasy on my mind a lot recently so any FFVI, VII, T, IX, X, XII or XIII reimagining would be fantastic, but also regular fantasy, space opera, sci-fantasy… anything fancy!

I ship Coop/Albert/Harry and all sides thereof, Laura/Donna, Tammy/Cynthia, Lucy/Andy, Gordon/Phillip, Chet/Sam. I love & for all of the above and Harry&Frank, Bookhouse Boys in general, Margaret&Hawk, James&Shelly, Margaret&Trumans, Albert&Frank, Albert&Doris, Tammy&Albert, Tammy&literally any woman in the cast, Denise&any Blue Rose, Cynthia&Constance, Constance&Twin Peaks cast, Annie&Audrey, Annie&Shelly, Wally&Coop&Laura, Diane&Albert, Diane&Phillip, Lucy&Margaret. $character&Laura is the free space here, when in doubt add Laura.

Canon-specific DNWs: any singular Dreamer being the ‘source’ of canon, BOB (let alone Judy) being forever defeated in the finale, Judy being an active malevolent presence in the characters’ lives, clear explanations for canonical ambiguities, ‘Odessaverse’ being the reality layer, the Fireman’s House by the Sea being the White Lodge

Harry Truman: his life in remission or something with animals Frank Truman: maybe he’s a tulpa or maybe he came back to a town he doesn’t recognize anymore Albert Rosenfield: splitting identities post-canon, leaving the FBI, something about his jazz collection Tammy Preston: Tammy infodumping 101, meeting legacy characters, trying not to implode like previous generations of blue rose Monica Bellucci: just give me your headcanons about whatever the hell that was about, possibly not as a retelling. Was she actual Monica, a masking memory for a different spirit, something else entirely... Margaret Lanterman: playing off any character we never see her share a scene with in canon, environmental activist, saplings enthusiast Denise Bryson: actual undercover FBI means she’s now part of office shenanigans, right? Or coming back to Twin Peaks years later Cynthia Knox: Garland’s legacy in the USAF is a heavy burden. going through an initiation of her own not unlike Tammy Constance Talbot: visiting Twin Peaks for whatever reason, being shaken by some supernatural event Bosomy Woman: who is she, where does she come from. is she friends with Phil. I’m down with her being Lois Duffy or not Jade: two things I love about her are that she comes out unscathed from a brush-in with the supernatural and that "Jade” is an alias she got from Invitation to Love. Expanding on either topic would be great (Invitation to Love fandom fic?) Wally Brando: the absolute coolest. That is unironically all. Tell me more about how cool he is, in the woods or on the road. Diane Evans: defragmenting her self somehow, in and out of the red room Doris Truman: what’s she like, who is she friends with. A coincidence in Hastings’ website makes me wonder if she’s an UFO enthusiast and interested in the zone Lucy Moran: Lucy's way of perceiving the world as a gateway to deeper truths which she may or may not be aware of. Also raccoons.

Ghost Trick: Cabanela, Jowd, Alma, Pigeon Man, Emma, Bailey

I am very interested in various characters finding about the erased timeline, but not getting their memories back, and having to live with being told about what they did but never remembering it. All what-ifs welcome (what if they managed an acceptable happy ending but didn’t reset the timeline, what if a different party went back to the past and kept their memories, what if Alma’s ghost stuck around…) Also open to AUs here, especially for generic fantasy or sci-fi settings or the Final Fantasy ones I prompted for Yuletide .

I ship Alma/Cabanela/Jowd, Alma/Jowd and Cabanela/Jowd and like all the & relationships in the game and more. Lots of love to Sissel and Missile always. (and Alma/Cabanela if Jowd isn’t around for some reason! Just don’t ignore him please!)

Cabanela: graciously accepting some type of defeat, or being rightfully stubborn about something. Maybe situations in which he knows he doesn’t have to lead Jowd: time-displaced and touch-starved, or getting to the bottom of the morbid humor barrel. Knowing he’s at the center of everyone’s attention. (for the record, that beard is at the center of my attention. it is very nice) Alma: would be nice if she had a personality of her own. Ghost Alma with or without powers? Teaming up with Cabanela or Lynne? Maybe she has trouble communicating with them but she’s there? Pigeon Man: how do he and Lovey take to Sissel. Friendship with Cabanela in the new timeline. Emma: her plotting process, or her activist leanings, or both. Is she friends with Alma? Bailey: I like how simple he is, and his panic dance of course. Throw him at another character of your choice and see what happens? Cabanela, for example?

The Last Remnant: Kate, Pagus, Emma, David Nassau, Zolean, Sibal, Maddox

I’m very interested in post-game exploration, and getting a clearer feeling of any of the cities and assorted places. I like characterization based on battle quotes, red bubble dialogues, and even their unique stat (‘authority’ is a natural fit for David but ‘romance’ tells me something new about Sibal!) Character interaction. Bit of worldbuilding. What’s another festival they celebrate? Do they erect something else instead of the Valeria Heart? Any fun discoveries down in Siebenbur? Where the hell IS Veyriel, anyway, do they go look for it and if so what do they find out? End of an age. Old bonds.

I ship David/Rush (wouldn’t want it as the main focus of a David fic, but as background there or anywhere it’s great) and Pagus/Sibal/Maddox. David&Rush and Pagus&Sibal&Maddox are also great. I also love Torgal, Caedmon, Allan, Irina, Glenys, Sheryl, Roberto and the Duke of Ghor, but everyone, really.

Kate: any expansion of her tulpa narrative? Maybe while she makes a friend of your choice? Pagus: my history-loving nerd. I’m also not over the fact that it’s stated canon that for a Qsiti, he’s an absolute catch. What a babe. Emma: let her be grumpy at someone... maybe teaming up with David à la good cop bad cop David Nassau: nice things happening to David postcanon, please? He’s been through a lot and I love him. Who can understand him, what can give him purpose? Zolean: I need someone to adopt this sad fish now that he knows that his friend is gone. Military experience and lost friends preferred but not required. Sibal and/or Maddox: give me all the Qsiti worldbuilding, Siebenbur worldbuilding, Remnant daydreaming, backstory with Pagus, old men reunions after the ending...

Dark Souls: Solaire, Siegmeyer, Sieglinde, Logan, Gough, Artorias

I’m only familiar with the first game! It’s probably relevant to mention that I think that linking the fire is kind of a dumbass move, Gwyn is an ass, Kaathe has his own agenda and there’s no winning move in this world, or at least no obvious one. Feel free to deviate from anyone’s canon endings, to make things happen that’ll stave off their hollowing. I am interested in any of these people meeting and possibly striking up a friendship, and also in exploring Lordran’s temporal/dimensional fuckery, where it’s possible to meet people who have been gone for ages...

Solaire: tragic, lovable, doomed, pure of heart dumb of ass and all. Ways in which his search for his sun intersects with the bigger mysteries and tragedies? What if he accidentally talked to Kaathe instead of Frampt in his quest? Siegmeyer: just let him be jovial and helpful? Traveling with someone and being a good buddy? Sieglinde: (almost) unstoppable can of whoop-ass, what’s it like to be basically the only non-undead in Lordran? Logan: he grump. Maybe he learns something interesting in the Archives. I am also interested in deets on him going mad there, at the end of his quest for knowledge. Sounds eldritch, poignant and intriguing. Gough: get him out of gay baby jail, poor thing, what’d he do! Or, at least: who goes to visit him, what does he feel for his people who appear to be more or less enslaved. Why does Gwyn allow him to languish in that tower? Artorias: much like with Solaire, I am intrigued by this paragon of virtue in a world that's really harsh on that sort of thing. He’s also... not human? Sif and Alvina always welcome.

Pyre: Oralech, Sandra, Bertrude, Molten Milithe, Celeste, Volfred, Tariq, Pamitha

Oh the burning found family feelings, the revolutionary passion, the divide between topside social constraints (moreso for liberated exiles, thrust into heroic roles after the revolution) and the kind of freedom allowed by the downside! Mere distance cannot separate our spirits! Noxalas! ...any cutesy activity lifted from the game would be great, like X doing laundry with Y. Thoughts about the Plan, about the Scribes, about being considered the reincarnation of the Scribes, about finding oneself at the end of an age, as everything crumbles down to form something new. The titan stars. Exploring literally any corner of the Downside. Any postcanon very welcome with any combination of endings as long as the revolution was peaceful. I love everyone so much. Please do lean in on the xeno details if you’re writing nonhumans! Even for gen, I like to read what it’s like to be something other than human.

I ship Volfred/Tariq, Volfred/Oralech, some form of Oralech/Volfred/Tariq (more of a Volfred-centric V but I would like to be convinced of the Oralech/Tariq side of things), Celeste/Jodariel, Reader/Sandra, Hedwyn/Fikani and Pamitha/Bertrude. All & pairs welcome. I do NOT ship Jodi/Ignarius, Celeste/Tariq and *ae/Almer.

Oralech: so many intense emotions, just pick one and run with it! His topside ending made me cry. Finding the pristine blackwagon, books and sigil he would deem the True Nightwings’? Learning to let go of he bundle of hatred and prejudice he’d used as a shield, one thread at a time? Bonding with a character of your choice? Sandra: butting heads with any character of your choice, ideologically and also because she’s understandably pissed off 24/7? Volfred was Reader before us, what was their relationship like? And I’m sure that post-game the Reader brings her along to Nightwings meetings when she feels like it? Bertrude: witchy snek doing witchy snek things please. Her reluctant bonding is great Milithe: also witchy snek doing witchy snek things but on a grander, more primeval scale? Her drive to explore the Downside touches me. Celeste: the fixed star learning not to be fixed anymore, and being a person, while her counterpart has something of a 830 years head start and no-one seems to be on her wavelength. She’s intense and burning and uncompromising and how do you live like that? Volfred: early days in exile, bonding with any of the old Nightwings, or living as prime minister giving his all to the new society he’s building, which has to be demanding and tiresome. Idealistic, self-assured and a little manipulative is one of my ideals so just send him Volfred-ing around and I’ll be happy. Tariq: he keeps it all under the surface and if you get a peek past it there’s something of an eldritch depth to him and isn’t that so sweet. I think we need more Tariq whump but also Tariq nursing sick Nightwings, Tariq having nice days and just all-around more Tariq, is all. Pamitha: it’s hard to break that self-loathing but she could get a break maybe? If she stays Downside, what does she find at the far borders of this land?

The Last Guardian: any

The boy & the very good boy… I’d like to read about a distant reunion. I was surprised by the boy being the combo breaker after the former Ueda protagonists cast their societies behind. He gets to live his life with his people, apparently, but what makes him leave and find Trico again? What’s their bond like, years later? Or is it Trico who comes back to search for him?

And what about the being in the coffin? Got any headcanons on the relationship between it, the master of the valley, the alien-looking white tower and the rest of the vall... well, crater, presumably? Are they dead? Does some part of their conscience stick around? Were they in some sort of cryostasis and the destruction of the master of the valley woke them up?

I really like the setting of the game so laying it thick with the environmental focus is always appreciated.

As an aside and since SotC and ICO are in the tagset, I don’t generally like to think about direct, rational connections between the three games, placing them in a timeline etc. Even so, if you read the TLG artbook: what the hell was Ueda going on about, talking about SotC “as if through a mirror” or whatever that quote went like? Iirc he was talking about TLG’s mirror and SotC’s pool having some sort of symbolic... inverted... connection...? If you have ideas about some crackpot surrealist connection between TLG and SotC, the kind fever dreams are made of, I’m all ears!

The Swapper: any

I fell in love early on with this indie gem and its take on cloning, communication and the loss of self and I’m thrilled to see it in the tagset. I love narratives that explore solitude, alien mindsets, rejection of society, fractured consciousness - you can see how The Swapper struck a chord (the stellar puzzles and graphics helped). So the first thing I’d like to read in this nonexistent fandom with no fic is something, anything, focused on any of these themes. What of our protagonist, or what is left of her (WHAT is left of her?), after the ‘planet’ ending? But an exploration of the 'spaceship’ ending also works, keeping in mind that I see it as by far the creepiest and less consolatory option (not that the plot has any business being consolatory or black and white in the fist place, but if I HAD to slap a ‘good end’ ‘bad end’ label, planet ending is the good ending for me). What interests me about the Scavenger - I’m mostly talking about the main playable character(s), but the original one is also very interesting - is mostly what the game puts her through. Delving into her background, not so much. I would also love any setup that offers a focus on the Watchers, just… exploring their point of view on this whole business and on life, the universe and everything as a whole. Luv me them rocks. I’d really like to get into their mindset. The two scientists can come too of course.

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patarmstrong · 5 years

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Fire and Plants

Evaluating the Impacts of Fire on Australian Ecosystems with Reference to Past Indigenous Practices

The effects of fire on natural systems within Australia are intricate and complex. This complexity is partly due to the variety of responses to fire exhibited by native flora species, which evolved to adapt to the different climates which have occurred since the Cretaceous period (Hill 2016). The impacts of fire can be damaging to flora species (Gill 1996), plant-animal relationships, and various properties of topsoil, all of which will be examined in this essay. The impacts of fire-use on nature can also be positive, a fact which has been understood and practiced by Indigenous Australians for at least 120,000 years (Pascoe 2014). With recent changes to rainfall and peak temperatures in Australia caused by climate change (Cai & Cowan 2013), improved management regarding future fire-use is critical, and this will require the reassessment of past Indigenous practices. In order to better understand the way in which fire can benefit nature, the union of modern scientific research and Indigenous experience regarding fire use is essential.

Fire is an ancient feature of life on Earth and its occurrence is primarily dependent on the presence of oxygen, heat and fuel. The availability of these three factors has changed throughout Australia’s climate history, and as a result the prevalence of fire within the Australian environment has not been constant throughout time (Hill 2016). Research has shown that throughout the Cretaceous (145-65mya), atmospheric oxygen levels were between 23-29%, whereas todays level is 20.9% (Belcher & McElwain 2008). Professor Bob Hill (2016) states that this higher oxygen composition increased fire occurrence, which was a driving factor in the evolutionary processes that created fire-tolerant Australian plant species.

Oxygen levels soon dipped following this period, reaching a low point of 20-23% about 70 million years ago (Belcher & McElwain 2008). This coincided with higher CO2 levels, which Hill (2016) states resulted in an environment with high moisture and rainfall levels. The combination resulted in a decrease in both fire frequency and intensity (Hill 2016). It has been theorized by Hill (2016) that evolution processes in response to this climate resulted in plant species that are fire-sensitive compared to those that evolved to suit the earlier, more fire-prone climate.

This variety of fire tolerances within native flora species means that the effects of fire on ecosystems are intricate (Keeley, Pausas, Rundel, Bond & Bradstock 2011). An insight into plant response to fire by Keeley et al (2011) is that no species is fire adapted, but there are instead many species which are adapted to particular fire regimes. The significance of ecosystem-specific fire regimes was understood by the Indigenous Australians (Gott 2012; Keith, McCaw & Whelan 2002). One example of this ecosystem-specific approach was the regular burning of tussock grasslands which was practiced by Indigenous people (Gott 2005). A grassland study by Morgan (1998) noted that with regards to optimising herbaceous dicotyledon populations, disturbances to the canopy caused by fire, must occur every 1-3 years. This prevents the competitive exclusion of herbaceous species by the dominant grasses from occurring to an undesirable extent (Morgan 1998). This practice thereby ensures species diversity, by creating opportunities for herbaceous species to develop amongst the tussock grasses (Gott 2012).

A post-fire increase in diversity was also illustrated in a ten-year study of the Anglesea Woodlands in Victoria, and their recovery after Ash Wednesday in February 1983 (Gott 2012). The study, by Wark, White, Robertson & Marriot (1997), showed that the following spring after the fire, there was a mass flowering of tuberous perennials. Species richness measurements showed that after the first-year there was great diversity, with an abundance of herbaceous plant species (Wark et al. 1997). Wark et al. (1997) noted that after the third year, when canopy cover and shrub height had increased, species richness began to decrease in response. In the final year of the study, species richness was only 40% of the year 1-3 level, demonstrating that a frequent use of fire, as practiced by Indigenous Australians, helps to maintain higher levels of species richness (Gott 2012). In addition to this initial improvement in species richness, Wark et al (1997) also mentioned that through the fire, nutrients were returned to the soil.

The relationship between fire and topsoils is very important, as post-fire plant diversity is dependent on soils being able to support seed germination (Gott 2005). The impact of fire on soil is largely dependent on peak fire temperatures, and duration (Certini 2003). These two factors combine to define the term ‘severity’ as used by Certini (2003). Certini (2003) states that low-moderate severity fires, can affect nutrient availability, and research has been done on the impacts of fire on the important nutrients, nitrogen and phosphorous.

The impact of fire on topsoil nitrogen is dependent on the severity of the fire (Certini 2003). A substantial proportion of nitrogen is reported to remain unaffected when burnt at low intensity, with a change in form being unlikely to occur (Certini). For moderate-high intensity fires, most organic nitrogen becomes inorganic, in the forms of nitrate and ammonia. Certini (2003) states that nitrogen levels can experience an increase in the first to second growing season. Research has indicated that this peak in nitrogen is followed by a slow return to the pre-fire levels (Grogan, Burns & Chapin Iii 2000). The short-term peak in soil levels after a fire occurs for many different fire regimes, with the exception of very high severity wildfires in which nutrients can be lost through volatisation, which refers to the process of nutrients being vaporized (Certini 2003).

A similar response to fire occurs with regard to soil bound phosphorous. Cade-Menun, Berch, Preston & Lavkulich (2000) showed that a fire event converts organic phosphorous to orthophosphate, which is the sole form of phosphorous that biota can use (Certini 2003). Phosphorous, like nitrogen, experiences peak abundance in a short time after a fire event, and then begins to diminish, until returning to pre-fire levels (Cade-Menun et al. 2000). It is known that nitrogen and phosphorous are key components of plant growth, therefore it can be said that the effect of fire on nutrients can benefit plant growth for many different regimes. The short-term peaks in nitrogen and phosphorous levels favour the frequent use of fire as a way to sustain naturally high nutrient levels, which is reflected in the practise of Indigenous Australians, who generally used fire to maintain select areas every 1-3 years (Gott 2005).

An interesting relationship between Indigenous fire use, food gathering, and soil qualities arises when examining the effects of fire on soil hydrophobicity, or water repellency. Certini (2003), states that for low-moderate severity fires, the hydrophobicity of topsoil is enhanced, with this enhancement reported to remain for approximately 19 months in some environments (Everett, Java-Sharpe, Scherer, Wilt & Ottmar 1995). The impacts of enhanced hydrophobicity can include erosion and increased run-off, as such it can be said that the impact of fire is negative when this possible impact is not considered (Certini 2003).

However, it appears that the effects of fire on hydrophobicity were able to be counter-acted by Indigenous agricultural methods. (Pascoe 2014; Gott 2005). Tuberous perennials, a type of herbaceous plant group, were a major food source for Indigenous groups all throughout Australia (Pascoe 2014). Gott (2005) states that through the post-fire practice of collecting these tubers, hydrophobicity levels were lowered. This occurred as a result of ash and debris being turned back into the soil, which aerated and loosened the soil, thereby improving water absorption. Gott (2005) showed that through the use of traditional methods, the impacts of fire on topsoil can be made more positive and the impacts of hydrophobicity can be mitigated. Healthy soil can then go on to create to benefit the health of plants, and the animals that feed on them (Vandegehuchte, de la Pena & Bonte 2010).

The plant-animal relationships that are influenced by fire are numerous in Australia. One example is Pezoporus wallicus, a ground parrot in south-eastern Australia, that feeds primarily on graminoid seed (Meredith, Gilmore & Isles 1984). Its preferred habitat is heaths and swamps that have a high component of graminoid sedges, and it has been shown that the maintenance of flora species composition in this habitat is dependent on appropriate fire regimes being applied (Gill 1996). When fire is too infrequent, the more competitive shrubs outcompete the graminoid sedge population over time, limiting food availability for Pezoporus wallicus (Meredith et al. 1984). If fire were to be applied to this area in an appropriate regime, the balance between sedges and shrubs would be continually restored, and Pezoporus wallicus would have a more optimum environment and more secure food supply (Gill 1996).

In the likely event that an imperfect fire regime acts on an area, fire can cause great damage. Gill (1996) notes the 1960-61 fire in Central Tasmania as an example of this. As an environment that receives very high rainfall, fires are not usually able to burn. Due to this, local and endemic flora species, such as those from the genus Athrotaxis, tend to have seed production and dispersion techniques poorly adapted to fire (Kirkpatrick & Dickinson 1984). Therefore, when the high severity fire event of 1960-61 took place, local extinctions of two Athrotaxis species, as well as other endemic conifers such as Diselma archeri and Podocarpus lawrencii, occurred (Gill 1996). Gill (1996) stated that the area is unlikely to reach a pre-fire state over the next several thousand years, indicating the level of damage which can be inflicted by fire-events that are inappropriate to the environment they occur in.

Conclusion:

Fire-sensitive areas, such as alpine Central Tasmania, will be increasingly at risk of fire as rainfall decreases and peak temperatures increase (Cai & Cowan 2013). It is therefore critical that the ways in which fire can have a positive relationship with ecosystems continue to be explored. The development and use of fire-regimes that are tailored to a specific environment is necessary in order to achieve positive outcomes, and this will only occur through the incorporation of viable traditional Indigenous methods. Modern research, which has supported the viability of many of these methods (Gott 2005; Morgan 1998), has added to the body of knowledge on plant-animal relationships regarding fire use (Gill 1996). By reconciling the information from both sources of understanding, the negative effects of future fires can be mitigated, and the potential for fire to exist as a positive component of our environment can be realized.

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mamiffer · 6 years

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While writing the new Mamiffer texts for the upcoming 2019 record, I came across The World Unseen one-sheet info written by Brian Cook. First quote by Hélén Cixous

"If you must have a language, let it be one whose quantity cannot be reduced to a single sound, one that moves without displacing, that describes without being written, that knows the letter and yet is the spirit and has the spirit to be without recourse to visibility, that is made of time and not altered by time, that knows neither childhood or age, neither the tongues or the teeth that gnaw at foreign languages, that gives birth to itself, whose soul is everywhere and nowhere, that is free in its coupling. Air cut out of air… a motive force of infinity… and the world will be music… where birth and death overlap." -Hélén Cixous For Mamiffer’s Faith Coloccia and Aaron Turner, music is a divine language, a code to be deciphered, a map riddled with clues. Their latest album, The World Unseen, is a conceptual and liminal document of numinous connection through an experience with loss. It is an exploration of subconscious and psychic bonds between the past and present, and the ways in which the musical devices of repetition and incantation create hands across the chasm that divide the human from the divine. Through the use of piano, voice, guitar, Wurlitzer organ, bass synthesizer, tape machines, and effects pedals, Coloccia and Turner have created an eight-song aural lexicon that vacillates between Arvo Pärt’s delicate minimalist beauty, Thomas Köner’s narcotic pulses of noise, and Richard Pinhas’ sublime textural patterns. Further expanding upon their explorations, Mamiffer enlisted Eyvind Kang for string arrangements. Geneviève Beaulieu (Menace Ruine) and Joe Preston (Thrones) make guest appearances on “Domestication of the Ewe pt. III”, contributing additional choral vocals and bass, and adding greater dimension to their auditory crossings. Despite this impressive arsenal of musicians and instruments, Mamiffer ultimately depends as much on empty space as they do upon the various oscillating frequencies within their sound. “The record is imperfect,” says Coloccia. “It has within its heart an incompleteness, a stillness containing the presence of absence and loss.” It was a slow and patient journey to arrive at the final formation of The World Unseen. Chance, accident and imperfections were used as compositional tools, and unplanned chaos revealed itself as having its own harmonious order and healing litany. The songs took their shape from source material that stretched back as far as 2011. Mamiffer then began to capture those songs in recording sessions at their home studio and at AVAST! Studio in Seattle with producer/engineer Randall Dunn throughout 2013 and 2014. The World Unseen sees the light of day in March 2016 on CD, 2xLP, and digital formats via SIGE Records in the U.S. and as a CD with a bonus disc on Daymare Records in Japan.

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hollydental · 2 years

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A vast overview of dental treatment- Veneers Preston:

Dental veneers, which are also known as dental porcelain laminate or porcelain veneers, are designed by professional dentists or medical personnel with wafer-thin shells of the tooth-coloured material. These types of dental accessories are designed to cover the teeth’s front surface so that they can improve the entire teeth’ appearance. This shell, wafer-thin material, is bonded to the front portion of the teeth to change the teeth’ colour, shape, length, and size.

Dental Veneers Preston can be crafted with resin composite material or porcelain; however, porcelain veneers are more popular than resin veneer as it has better stain resistance capacity. Moreover, this type of veneer also better mimics the light reflecting property of the natural teeth.

When do you need to visit a reputable dental care centre for teeth veneer?

Veneers are usually used to fix-

If the teeth have got stained due to medical drugs like tetracycline.

If the patient has recently undergone root canal treatment.

Damage of teeth due to excessive fluoride.

If the teeth have been affected due to large resin filling.

Besides the above points, if a patient has experienced a chipped or broken tooth, a veneer can be used to fix the matter. Apart from this, patients having worn down teeth or uneven, misaligned, or irregular shaped teeth can go for veneer treatment.

Some common concerns regarding veneer treatment:

When deciding on veneer treatment, some general concerns can come to mind. Here are the answer to some common and mostly asked queries-

‘Who can obtain it?’- About it

If you’re concerned about whether you’re eligible for this treatment or not, here is the answer. The veneer can be obtained by anyone who has healthy teeth and gum. Patients who are suffering from root canal infection, tooth decay, gum disease, etc. Veneers Preston treatment can be perfect for giving your quick cure.

The treatment is painful-

In the veneer treatment, patients haven’t reported experiencing severe pain or discomfort. However, the dental care centre uses local anaesthetics to take extra precautions. Generally, this treatment can give you slight discomfort, but it’s not painful.

It lasts long-

According to experienced dentists, the veneer can stay for years if it’s under proper maintenance and care. With proper care, it can stay long for up to 15 years to improve the shape, colour, and size of the teeth.

How does it work?

While taking emergency care from a reputable dental care centre, you’re diagnosed with experienced dentists for veneer treatment. The veneer sits at the front position and top of your teeth; surface enamel needs to be filed away. Dentists generally file away the enamel by measuring the thickness of the veneer using local anaesthetics. After that, when the bespoke veneer is ready, it’s bonded using the special curing light. Then the ultimate setting is finished manually by dentists.

Wrapping Up:

The Veneers Preston treatment isn’t only done to give a shape to the teeth, but it is also helpful for patients who have undergone root canal treatment or are suffering from tooth decay issues. However, before getting the treatment, always check the experience of the dentists and that dental organization. Plus, you also consult with the doctor before going for the treatment.

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Find The Best Emergency Dentist In Preston

Find The Best Emergency Dentist In Preston. Holly Dental Practice is a dental practice based out of Preston, United Kingdom. Holly Dental Practice provides emergency and general dental services to patients from all across the UK. Holly Dental is a Preston-based private cosmetic dentist clinic offering emergency treatment for pain, Invisalign and dental implants, composite bonding, teeth whitening, braces, etc. For more info contact them and visit their site.

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It will be better to request the dentist from the Dental Veneers in Preston, to provide you with veneers that are made from porcelain rather than composite material. Read More -: https://www.giantbomb.com/profile/amelieparker/blog/understanding-the-importance-of-dental-veneers-in-/140447/

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unpunny · 6 years

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Unfunny meth joke

List of chemicals and materials: Diluted HCl - also called Muriatic acid - can be obtained from hardware stores, in the pool section

NaOH - also called lye

Ethyl Ether - aka Diethyl Ether - Et-0-Et - can be obtained from engine starting fluid, usually from a large supermarket. Look for one that says "high ethyl ether content", such as Prestone

Ephedrine The cottons in todays vicks nasle inhalers dont contain efed or pfed (ephedrin or psuedoephedrin) but there are still lots of easy ways to get good ephed or pfed, pure ephedrin can be extracted out of it's plant matter, from a plant that can be bought at most garden stores. Or you can get pfed from decongestive pills like sudafed. Most people perfer to work with pfed from pills rather then ephed from the plant. The important thing is that you must have pure pfed/ephed as any contaminants will fuck up the molar ratio leaving you with over-reduced shit or under-reduced shit. Or contaminats will jell durring baseifying and gak up your product which will then be very hard to clean. So you want to find a pill that is nearly pure pfed hcl, or as close to pure as you can get. Also check the lable on your pills and see what inactive ingredients they contain. Inactive ingredients are things like binders and flavors. These you dont want and will remove when cleaning your pills. but certain inactive ingredients are harder to remove then others. You dont want pills with a red coating, you dont want pills with alot of cellose in them and you dont want pills with much wax. you also dont want pills that contain povidone. As a rule, if you have a two pills that contain the same amount of pfed hcl then take the smaller sized pill because it obviously has less binders and inactive ingredients, time released pills are usualy harder to work with because they have more binders and tend to gel up durring the a/b stage. Also only buy pills that have pfed hcl as the only active ingredient. You first have to make ephedrine (which is sometimes sold as meth by itself):If you are selling it...I would just make ephedrine and say it's meth.

Distilled water - it's really cheap, so you have no reason to use the nasty stuff from the tap. Do things right.

List of equipment : A glass eyedropper

Three small glass bottles with lids (approx. 3 oz., but not important)one should be marked at 1.5oz, use tape on the outside to mark it (you might want to label it as ether). One should be clear (and it can't be the marked one).

A Pyrex dish (the meatloaf one is suggested)

A glass quart jar

Sharp scissors

Clean rubber gloves

Coffee filters

A measuring cup

Measuring spoons

Preparing your Lab:

Preparing Ethyl Ether: WARNING: Ethyl Ether is very flammable and is heavier than air. Do not use ethyl ether near flame or non-sparkless motors. It is also an anaesthetic and can cause respiratory collapse if you inhale too much.

Take the unmarked small bottle and spray starter fluid in it until it looks half-full. Then fill the rest of the way with water, cap the bottle and shake for 5 minutes. Let it sit for a minute or two, and tap the side to try and separate the clear upper layer. Then, draw off the top (ether) layer with the eyedropper, and throw away the lower (water) and cloudy layer. Place the ether in the marked container. Repeat this until you have about 1.5 oz. of ether. Put the cap on it, and put it in the freezer if you can. Rinse the other bottle and let it stand.

Ethyl ether is very pungent. Even a small evaporated amount is quite noticeable.

Ephedrine & or P-Ephedrine: Please discuss this on the neonjoint forum

Pour 1/8 teaspoon of the lye crystals into the bottle of ephedrine and agitate. Do this carefully, as the mixture will become hot, and give off hydrogen gas and/or steam. H2 gas is explosive and lighter than air, avoid any flames as usual. Repeat this step until the mixture remains cloudy. This step neutralizes the HCl in the salt, leaving the insoluble free base (l-desoxyephedrine) again. Why do we do this? So that we can get rid of any water-soluble impurities. For 3 oz. bottles, this should take only 3 repetitions or so.

Fill the bottle from step 5 up the rest of the way with ethyl ether. Cap the bottle, and agitate for about 8 minutes. It is very important to expose every molecule of the free-base to the ether for as long as possible. This will cause the free base to dissolve into the ether (it -is- soluble in ether).

Let the mixture settle. There will be a middle layer that is very thick. Tap the side of the bottle to get this layer as thin as possible. This is why this bottle should be clear.

Remove the top (ether) layer with the eyedropper, being careful not to get any of the middle layer in it. Place the removed ether layer into a third bottle.

Add to the third bottle enough water to fill it half-way and about 5 drops of muriatic acid. Cap it. Shake the bottle for 2 minutes. When it settles, remove the top layer and throw it away. The free base has now been bonded to the HCl again, forming a water soluble salt. This time, we're getting rid of ether-soluble impurities. Make sure to get rid of all the ether before going to step 11!

If there is anything left from step 3, repeat the procedure with it.

Evaporate the solution in the Pyrex dish on low heat. You can do this on the stove or nuke it in the microwave (be careful of splashing), but I have found that if you leave it on top of a hot-water heater (like the one that supplies hot water to your house) for about 2-3 days, the remaining crystals will be ephedrine HCl.

If you microwave it, I suggest no more than 5-10s at one time. If it starts "popping", that means you have too little liquid left to microwave. You can put it under a bright (100W) lamp instead. Microwaving can result in uneven heating, anyway.

First Batch: 120mg ephedrine HClEstimated: 300mg (100% of theoretical, disregarding HCl)

Now, Making Methamphetamine out of ephedrine by reducing it with Hydroiodic Acid and Red Phosphorus.

Items needed: Alot of matchbooks (the kind with the striking pad)

Coffee filters (or filter paper)

Something that measures ml and grams

A flask (a small pot with a lid can be used)

iodine

Hydroiodic Acid (I will tell you how to make this)

Red Phosphorus (I will tell you how to make this)

Lye

*Optional (toluene and HCI gas)

Making Red Phosphorus: The striking pad on books of matches is about 50% red phosphorus. The determined experimenter could obtain a pile of red phosphorus by scraping off the striking pads of matchbooks with a sharp knife. A typical composition of the striking pad is about 50% red phosphorus, along with about 30% antimony sulfide, and lesser amounts of glue, iron oxide, MnO2, and glass powder. I don't think these contaminants will seriously interfere with the reaction. Naturally, it is a tedious process to get large amounts of red phosphorus by scraping the striking pads off matchbooks, but who cares?

Making Hydroiodic Acid: This is made by mixing iodine and red phosphorus. When making hydroiodic acid from iodine and red phosphorus, the acid is prepared first, and allowed to come to complete reaction for 20 minutes before adding the ephedrine to it. The way around the roadblock here is to just boil off some more of the water from the ephedrine extract, and make the acid mixture in fresh pure water. Since the production of HI from iodine and red phosphorus gives off a good deal of heat, it is wise to chill the mixture in ice, and slowly add the iodine crystals to the red phosphorus-water mixture.

Now, Making Methamphetamine: To do the reaction, a 1000 ml round bottom flask is filled with 150 grams of ephedrine. Also added to the flask are 40 grams of red phosphorus and 340 ml of 47% hydroiodic acid. This same acid and red phosphorus mixture can be prepared from adding 150 grams of iodine crystals to 150 grams of red phosphorus in 300 ml of water. This should produce the strong hydroiodic acid solution needed. Exactly how strong the acid needs to be, I can't say . With the ingredients mixed together in the flask, a condenser is attached to the flask, and the mixture is boiled for one day. This length of time is needed for best yields and highest octane numbers on the product. While it is cooking, the mixture is quite red and messy looking from the red phosphorus floating around in it.When one day of boiling under reflux is up, the flask is allowed to cool, then it is diluted with an equal volume of water. Next, the red phosphorus is filtered out. A series of doubled up coffee filters will work to get out all the red phosphorus, but real filter paper is better. The filtered solution should look a golden color. A red color may indicate that all the red phosphorus is not yet out. If so, it is filtered again. The filtered-out phosphorus can be saved for use in the next batch. If filtering does not remove the red color, there may be iodine floating around the solution. It can be removed by adding a few dashes of sodium bisulfate or sodium thiosulfate.The next step in processing the batch is to neutralize the acid. A strong lye solution is mixed up and added to the batch while shaking until the batch is strongly basic. This brings the meth out as liquid free base floating on top of the water. The strongly basic solution is shaken vigorously to ensure that all the meth has been converted to the free base. You now can sell or use the free base for injection use or with free base meth now obtained, the next step you can do is to form the crystalline hydrochloride salt of meth. To do this, a few hundred mls of toluene is added to the batch, and the meth free base extracted out as usual. If the chemist's cooking has been careful, the color of the toluene extract will be clear to pale yellow. If this is the case, the product is sufficiently pure to make nice white crystals just by bubbling dry HCl gas through the toluene extract. If the toluene extract is darker colored, a distillation is called for to get pure meth free base. The yield of pure methamphetamine hydrochloride should be from 100 to 110 grams.

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