#I've been always fascinated

[reginrokkr]

𝐗𝐗𝐗𝐕𝐈𝐈𝐈. Vestiges of a quincentennial corruption —signs / symptoms and therapy—.

It is known that corruption makes its way to any creature's being via exposure to the Abyss no matter how brief it may be, its nature of precipitating everything to death permeating their body with symptoms of varying degrees and lengths depending on how swift the pursuit of a cure is.

Signs and symptomatology.

Among the symptoms connected to corruption, the affected individual may experience: warping one's senses, thus reality. It is known that the void energy magnifies one's negative traits and expands them tenfold (someone's sadness can be more than it really is, someone's paranoia will be fed with more reasons to keep it going that are actually nonexistent but in their mind they are existent); visions, dreams and thoughts of those who passed manifested through voices heard by those with a higher sentience to this type of energy; deception of the viewer's sights by presenting an idyllic atmosphere and location that in reality could have them walk in hell without them knowing unless they awaken that awareness in them; organ compromise leading to a faster failure of the same under the exposure of elemental concentration.

When combined with the curse of immortality, one of its prevalent symptoms is the degradation of the individual's physical body through numbness and loss of any skill that requires his body with the passages of time.

Other signs and symptoms not directly attributed to corruption (but equally to the Abyss in a higher or lesser degree) have different ways of manifestation depending if it's:

→ Via direct contact to an external agent like the Tatarigami: the beginning of symptoms starts with overall weakness and dizziness and nose bleeding. Nightmares that give the sign of a bad omen are also part of the symptomatology. As the chaos goes untreated, the host experiences strong headaches, rashes on the skin blood coughs and more frequent nightmares. All these effects are particularly intense when night falls. Lastly, during the last phases of the sickness, hosts experience gruesome hallucinations and they’re able to listen to fallen gods’ whispers until they fall to madness. Failure to treat any of the symptomatology in time can lead to death.

→ Via Delusions: it stands to reason that in order to create weapons of this caliber by using chaos, the amount of chaos infused in these weapons is controlled and aimed for its wielder’s longer lifespan depending on how strong/resistant they are. As such, the symptomatology may be gentler but in essence it will also lead to its host’s death. Given that chaos is all about life consuming, it saps away from people’s vitality which in turn causes an ageing acceleration with the issues that ageing entails. Additionally, chaos feeds more from negative feelings which includes wrath that makes it harder to get out of the vicious cycle Delusion wielders entered. Hosts may experience weakness and coughing alongside side effects byproduct of the deterioration that comes with the fast ageing until they reach their death.

Depending on certain requirements, being touched by the Abyss leads to three conditions said individual may experience: premature death, transcendence (abandoning one's own flesh to become a transcendent being, an abyssal monster) or, in the best of cases, the need to keep oneself on check in order to not aggravate the already existing symptoms.

Therapy.

Human intervention from those who are knowledgeable in the medical field proves to be effective in muting the symptomatology of the corruption if not much time passes between the abyssal exposure and the treatment. Nevertheless, this is a palliative remedy at best: the organs of those who have been touched by corruption are already compromised.

Other methods that are exceedingly harder to be within human reach have proven to hold a higher effectivity in their healing or even purification exist. 1) Ley Lines themselves, due to being carriers of the seven elements that sustain the world (among other elements) and thus extensions of Irminsul, which also holds purification and healing capabilities, count as one of them. The fact that Natlan's weaker Ley Line system caused the same nation to take a bigger grunt because of the Abyss in comparison to other nations suggests their effectiveness in keeping the void at bay. 2) Traveler's purification and lastly, 3) the celestial nails are also known for being effective, too.

Dáinsleif.

In Dain's particular case, the clearest sign he has of corruption is that half of his body has turned black. Furthermore, his continuous exposition to the Abyss in his pursuit to frustrate the Abyss Order's plans —and by extension, his own brother's— in combination to the curse of immortality (potentially of abyssal connection too, despite being inflicted by a god) is enough reason for him to have multiple symptoms.

Lastly, Dain is known for being both corrupted and cursed, which might result in a higher chance at being affected by the aforementioned described symptoms more. Another reason to this cause is his connection to Irminsul for two reasons: 1) aether and void (abyss) when interacting are mutually toxic— given that both of them coexist in Dain's body, there is no denial that they may interact. And 2) the elements and the abyss repel each other, causing yet another negative effect).

Despite being highly susceptible to be in a really bad shape due to the abyssal influence within him, the reality is that he doesn't suffer much from these thanks to his connection to Irminsul. While contradictory all the same due to the toxicity that the interactions between the elements, aether and abyss may bring, he doesn't suffer from physical degradation and his corruption has been at an impasse for the past 500 years.

However, that doesn't mean that he can be careless with emotions running out of control or in his confrontations against the Abyss Order. And while his own symptoms may not be too bad, they are always present. Predominantly, they tend to flare up in moments of emotional vulnerability or if he lingers too much in places that have abyssal presence.

[royalarchivist]

Tubbo's grown so much as a DJ these past few weeks, but I gotta say, every time he drops Spanish or Brazilian music into the mix, I lose my damn MIND, this goes so hard 💿🎶

[arthursfuckinghat]

Lakay - Bayou Nwa

[akiacia]

the things that come back

[loubatas-art]

Hero of the Kharlan War

[martianbugsbunny]

Ngl the funniest part of Monsters University is the revelation that Randall doesn't squint all the time because he's suspicious and paranoid it's just that he can't see for shit

[totalspiffage]

I desperately need people to start respecting VAs who work in dubs I'm so serious. I don't care whether you watch them (because people will always tell you if they don't!!) but don't just dismiss them.

[ducktracy]

30 second MS Paint self portrait but my director pointed out that i always start every meeting doing this and said that my energy is admirable and something to aspire towards. and i'm documenting this because i genuinely think a part of my brain is subconsciously being influenced by HIM

[ferronickel]

Thinking bout the time someone yelled at me because they didn't understand butches.

[codacheetah]

Homunculus

[edsbacktattoo]

I have Gathered some Data

@skysofrey and I recently got into a discussion about names in OFMD. Specifically, how many times does Ed actually call Stede by his name in the show? We could only think of a few examples each and that didn't seem right. And because I'm insane, I decided to rewatch and note down every time a name was used, who used it, and who was being spoken to. Here are my findings!

Before you proceed, please know that this is strictly for fun and because I was curious. There are likely errors in the data (I'm sure I missed some things, I'm just one person.) but! I still think that what's been gathered is very interesting.

Here are some other fun/important/miserable things that I found in my travels:

There is one more time where Stede calls Ed “Edward,” and the only time it isn’t said to him directly. This is when Stede is addressing the petrified orange.

Of the five times that Stede is called “The Gentleman Pirate,” two of them are from Ed.

Ed calls Stede by his name only twelve times in the series. Only two of these instances are spoken to someone else. There are two others when Ed is looking for him at the pier, and therefore spoken to no one.

There are only ten instances of other characters calling Ed something other than his name or “Blackbeard.” Two of these are from Izzy, during the scene in Spanish Jackie’s bar, where he’s informing Stede that Ed would like to meet with him. During this scene, he only uses “my captain” and “my boss.” This is one of the very few times he doesn’t refer to Ed to other people as “Blackbeard” and it’s at the time that is arguably the most important. (He’s an idiot.)

Out of the twenty times that Ed refers to himself, fourteen of those are as “Blackbeard/The Kraken.” He refers to himself with names other than “Ed/Edward” 70% of the time. 50% of the times he refers to himself by his name are during the beach scene in episode nine, and there is only one instance where he uses his name that is not in Stede’s company. ("Actually, I do want to be called 'Ed' from now on.")

Izzy only refers to Ed as "Edward" to other people four times in the show. Two of those times are when he's marooning Stede's crew, and each time he uses his name in that scene, he takes on a mocking tone. Meaning that 50% of every instance he's referred to Ed as "Edward" to other people, he's been mocking his name.

Ed calls Stede "mate" as often as he calls him by his name, but he only calls him "mate" directly.

Stede calls Ed by his name only once more than Izzy does.

80% of the times Ed refers to himself by name happen in episode nine.

[jageunjagiya]

the one who risked everything trying to escape captivity & the one who risked everything trying to stay in captivity

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[myblacknightworld]

Am thinking about giving Menelaus a french horn and Helen a flute. Also thinking about how Agamemnon is definitely a tuba, Achilles is a trumpet, Odysseus is a trombone (although he could also be a bassoon), Patroclus is a cornet, and Diomedes is an oboe idkkkk I was just thinking about how horn and flute are very complementary while also thinking about Menelaus and Helen (and I say this as a flutist who's now studying the horn too) and just. This came to me as a vision while waiting for my flute teacher

[t00thpasteface]

it always floors me how everyone's first reaction when i talk about my time spent in food service is immediate pity, sympathy, etc., as well as congrats for going back to school and "escaping" that work. i mean besides the obvious classism there, i really had a passion for food service and took pride in it. it's just the pay and the inconsistent shifts that made me quit. and no one ever believes me!

i'm planning on applying to work in one of the on-campus restaurants/kitchens for some extra money and free meals, and i'm curious to see how that affects people's reactions when i tell them what i'm up to. i don't think saying i voluntarily, enthusiastically work the cash register in the cafeteria at my prestigious stem college is going to dismantle any prejudices about "unskilled jobs" and the people who do them, but i hope i can at least give a couple folks a few seconds' pause and plant that seed in their heads.

[ghostoftonantzin]

God I hope Guillermo's quarter-life crisis is insane. He spent thirteen years of his life working to become a vampire, then became a vampire and couldn't do the one fundamental part of vampirism: drinking blood?

and now he's back at the house, but if he's not trying to get Nandor to turn him, is he even a familiar anymore? what does he want to be, if vampirism isn't for him? what happens when you realize that the thing you've put so much time and effort into isn't what you really want?

and if Guillermo thought becoming a vampire would make him feel sexy and powerful and closer to the rest of the household, how will he confront the fact that vampirism isn't a quick fix and he'll have to grow into himself on his own?

[queenofbaws]

Hi! Can you please write something with Beth it could be literally anything (she just needs more attention 😭)

Maybe if she hadn't been so cold, things would've been different. But she couldn't think like that, couldn't breathe, not with her sweat frozen so solid her skin cracked with every movement and her heart beating so hard she could feel it at the back of her tongue; the world was nothing but swirling snow and the high, bitter stench of singed hair, and if Beth hadn't been so horribly, terribly awake, this would've easily been the worst nightmare she'd ever had.

"Give me your hand!" he called over the wind, and she didn't know who he was - wasn't even really sure what he was - only that he was there, and he'd chased that thing off, and, and...understanding broke through the icy scrim of her thoughts.

Suddenly she was all-too aware of the chasm open beneath her, the blank, yawning mouth of blackness threatening to swallow her whole; her head spun, her chest clenched, and Hannah dug her fingernails that much harder into her wrist, her weight rocking them dangerously down, down, down like that awful Poe story she'd had to read in AP Lit.

Maybe if she hadn't been so cold, things would've been different: She loved her sister so much after all, loved her enough to give her the coat off her back, loved her enough to chase her out into the storm, loved her, loved her, loved her...just...not more than she loved herself.

She reached for the stranger's hand; she let Hannah's go.

six sentence sat(or)sunday!!!