#PermianExtinction

[global-education]

Living in the Paleozoic Era 🌿🦕🌏

Welcome to a journey back in time to the Paleozoic Era, a period of Earth's history that spans from about 541 million to 252 million years ago. It's a time of ancient landscapes, bizarre creatures, and dramatic geological changes. Let's dive into what life was like during this fascinating era!

🌍 Ancient Supercontinents: During the Paleozoic Era, Earth looked quite different from what we know today. The landmasses were joined together in the supercontinent Pangaea, surrounded by a vast Panthalassa Ocean.

🌋 Volcanic Activity: Volcanoes were a common sight, and they released massive amounts of greenhouse gases, creating a warm, tropical climate. Sea levels were much higher, with shallow seas covering large portions of the continents.

🌿 The Dawn of Life: Life was thriving, but it was vastly different from the species we see today. The first land plants appeared, bringing greenery to the barren landscapes. These early plants laid the foundation for terrestrial ecosystems.

🐚 Marine Wonders: The oceans were teeming with life. Ancient creatures like trilobites, nautiloids, and jawless fish ruled the seas. Corals began building reefs, while the first fish with jaws emerged.

🦗 Invasion of Land: One of the most significant events of the Paleozoic was the colonization of land. Arthropods, like millipedes and scorpions, were among the first to venture onto the continents. They were soon followed by amphibians.

🌅 Mass Extinctions: The era was marked by multiple mass extinctions, including the Ordovician-Silurian and Permian-Triassic extinctions. These events shaped the course of life on Earth and paved the way for new species to evolve.

🦕 The Age of Reptiles: By the late Paleozoic, reptiles had emerged, including the iconic sail-backed Dimetrodon. These reptiles were the ancestors of the dinosaurs that would dominate the next era.

🌄 The End of an Era: The Paleozoic Era came to a close with the Permian-Triassic extinction, the most devastating in Earth's history. It wiped out nearly 95% of marine species and marked the end of many Paleozoic life forms.

Today, we marvel at the remnants of the Paleozoic Era, from the fossils of trilobites to the geological formations that tell the story of this ancient world. Studying this era helps us understand the evolution of life on Earth and the forces that have shaped our planet.

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Mind-map illustrations for  Chapter 8 of The World Is Beautiful Indeed, a Pathologic Fanfiction by PermianExtinction & Excalibutt.

[permian-tropos]

I need people reblogging this recently to know I wrote a fic of this idea years ago

on day 1 of pathologic classic HD I think it would be really swell if, in addition to seeing those mobs going after women they think are shabnak-adyrs, I think you should be able to have a random event where a mob of like ten guys are chasing down artemy burakh, the accused patricide, and you can introduce yourself to him but you have to jog alongside him and take a reputation hit

[lupines-slash-recs]

Canon: Star Wars - Sequel Trilogy Pairing: Kylo Ren/Armitage Hux Rating: Teen [PG] Word Count: 9,808 Summary: Twenty years after his father defected with him from the First Order, Senator Armitage Hux returns to the abandoned Arkanis Academy with his Jedi bodyguard Ben Solo in the service of bringing his family's evil deeds to light. But it's difficult to keep a clear, objective head when a place that should be sinister and forbidding awakens nostalgic memories of his childhood.

Rec: This was so lovely! I love that Hux and Ben don't really feel like different people just better adjusted versions of themselves. Bonding over droid nannies, though Ben wins this one 'cause he had R2. Hux's dissonance in loving a place he knows was evil is poignant and Ben's reassurance well put.

{More recs for this fandom can be found here, and the pairing here.}

[absolxguardian]

Erosion- Chapter 1: Disintegration 

Chapter 1/3; 5k words

Characters: Armitage Hux’s Mother | Moira Dovhain (OC), Grogu | The Child, Wullf Yularen, The Grand Inquisitor, Anakin Skywalker | Darth Vader, Cin Drallig, Original Character(s)

Relationships: Armitage Hux’s Mother | Moira Dovhain (OC) & Grogu | The Child

Ao3 Tags: Canon-Typical Violence, Canon-Typical Child Murder, Canon-Typical Genocide, Fall of the Jedi Order, Alternate POV, Inquistorious Origins, How Grogu was saved from the Jedi Temple, Troposverse, Mandalorian Prequel, Rise of the Empire Era, Jedi Worldbuilding, Nikto Culture Worldbuilding, Jedi Temple Guards Worldbuilding, Minor Character Death, Falling to the Dark Side, Creative usage of the Force, Canon character death, Depicted character death

Grogu had been at the Jedi Temple for a few decades, always an Initiate too young to train. On the night the Jedi Temple fell, he only survived thanks to Moira Dovhain, a conflicted Temple Guard-in-training.

Part of PermianExtinction's Troposverse.

Padawan-Sentinel Moira Dovhain crouched on top of the plinth of the statue of one of the Sage Masters that flanked the grand entrance. Shrouded by shadow, she looked down at the marching clone troopers with a hooded figure at their head. The clones’ intention was clear in the Force, it was one of malice, even if it was run through with some kind of chains. And the leader, whoever they were, had fallen to the Dark Side.

Her master, Tirul Numon, second in command of the Jedi Temple Guards; had mysteriously summoned all of the Temple Guards- the off duty sentinels and the masked on-duty guards with their borrowed lightsabers both- to a building in the Works earlier that evening. Master Numon didn't say why, but Moira had a dread instinct that had something to do with what she had sensed a week ago.

Moira had been meditating on Coruscant's Force signature, as part of a personal project to study the ancient Sith shrine the Jedi Temple had been built above. The Council wouldn't let her physically investigate it, after the excavation she managed to goad the security corps into conducting led to disaster. But as she meditated, it was like she had adjusted a holocom to the perfect wavelength. Finally differentiable from the dark side energies of the shrine was the Force signature of a what could only be a collection of powerful Sith artifacts located in the Grand Republic Medical Facility. Logically, it made the most sense for them to belong to Darth Sidious. The Guards knew that Darth Sidious was someone in the Republic Senate, but now they had somewhere to lay a trap.

She had found what the Council couldn’t even find, because she had tried her own approach, by looking into the edges of what research was permitted. It was her natural talent at Force Scrying and unconventional way of approaching problems that caused Numon to choose her (as well as all the time she spent breaking into places she wasn’t allowed as a youngling) when her personality was otherwise unsuitable. She would be a hero.

Except that wasn't what happened. Numon nodded solemnly as Moira told him the news, and replied he would be investigating the site alone. She wasn't to tell any other guard, not even Master Drallig. And if she could keep that secret, he could continue to keep her secret about what happened to that family in the lower levels and she would remain free of the Citadel. The Pau'an Jedi never broached the topic again.

An on-duty Temple Guard stepped out of the shadows, his saber at his belt and his stance relaxed. So, someone else had disobeyed Numon's order. Not even Jedi were supposed to be able to tell Sentinels apart when they wore the mask, but the guards knew their own through the Force. This was Kyrian Nyth, of course it was Kyrian. A rival to Numon for the position of Drallig's right hand. He wondered were his shiftmate was, and suspected that Numon was to blame, but otherwise had no idea anything was amiss. Numon must not have told Kyrian, guessing that Kyrian wouldn't take Numon's word that the order came from Drallig and would try to confirm it himself, so Moira's master left him in the dark.

The leader continued forward, but as they passed Kyrian, struck out. They ignited their blue lightsaber, spearing the guard in a single motion. Likely too absorbed in his own frustrations to sense their malice in time, Kyrian died with his lightsaber still on his belt.    

Moira silenced her own gasp with her hand, as the fallen Jedi continued into the Temple, unflinching, followed by close to a hundred clones. As soon as they passed, Moira jumped off the plinth, silencing her landing with the Force. The clones couldn't sense a Jedi using the Force, and their leader- well she wasn't even trying to sense them and their own emotional turmoil struck her like a deluge. She wouldn't need to hide her own fear from the scrying of others.

And she was a Temple Guard. Somehow, Numon was in league with Darth Sidious, just like the Jedi that killed Kyrian. He had lured the guards away to leave the Temple vulnerable to attack, but she was still here.

She sprinted over to the wall of the main Temple complex and used the Force to remove the external cover of the ventilation system. She made sure she carefully set it down, before Force Jumping into the vents she and Loo-Ti had once used to get into trouble as younglings.

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[gingerrose-hub]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Armitage Hux/Rose Tico Characters: Rose Tico, Armitage Hux Series: Part 2 of Know Thine Enemy Summary:

On a remote base orbiting a planet the Resistance has made a temporary home out of, Rose makes a bizarre and unlikely discovery.

[ao3feed--kylux]

Memory of Snow

read it on the AO3 at http://ift.tt/2rMtlmW

by PermianExtinction

Three years after the defeat of the Order, Kylo Ren finds that his secluded cabin has an improbable intruder.

Words: 4530, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015), Star Wars Sequel Trilogy

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen, M/M

Characters: Armitage Hux, Kylo Ren

Relationships: Armitage Hux/Kylo Ren

Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Vague Allusions to a Good Guy Victory, Hermit Kylo, Only slightly shippy, Angst

read it on the AO3 at http://ift.tt/2rMtlmW

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Mind-map illustrations for  Chapter 9 of The World Is Beautiful Indeed, a Pathologic Fanfiction by PermianExtinction & Excalibutt.

[permian-tropos]

Rather than directly copying tags, which you can view through the link, I’ll describe this fic in more conversational terms because I’m really proud of it and also by god is it longer than I expected it to be so...

It’s an (exactly? how did that happen) 17k burakhovsky E-rated fic about Artemy’s experiences from the outbreak manifesting as intrusive thoughts that turn bodies into gore in his mind. Much as he wants to sleep with Daniil, he is unexpectedly thrown into a panic by it and they have to work through his angst together. They stay up all night talking about feelings. Artemy finally eats some strawberry. Time is made for discussing steppe linguistics. And plenty of sex. 

But I have more to say about this fic than all that; a while ago I engaged with a post by @modlisznik about the Kin’s taboo about cutting and how that may have interacted with their exploitation at the slaughterhouses, and I mentioned how working at a slaughterhouse can literally cause trauma, and this might be even worse for people who believe that cutting a body is sinful. 

This led me to wonder how different the “modern” Kin might be from their ancient counterparts and how it might be difficult for them to know for sure what their cultural identity is, whether it’s steeped in blood because blood is natural and good and sates the Earth, or if that’s the stain of the Bull Project. 

I consulted with some folks about how to portray a sense of cultural identity angst, where Artemy feels he’s been traumatized by his role as a menkhu but feels an incredible sense of responsibility about it, and recognizes how brutally oppressed the Kin have been; it’s not clear what the right path forward is for the Kin and he’s afraid of making any missteps going forwards but he’s also trying to make his own way in the world -- including falling in love with an outsider and a man, against what’s expected of him. 

So especially thank you so much to those consultants, you really gave me a lot to think about! Hope this fic does our conversations justice!

[pomodoriyum]

AO3 fic recs-- star wars (finished fics ONLY)

Star Wars-- 

Maul Centric

Sunsetofdoom: andthenthesinging --  generally anything they write is A++, check them out!

Nemonus: Journeyman -- I read this a long time ago. super good. find it here note!! they are still actively writing fic for TFA stuff, I think

found on AO3 archivist: Choices -- best characterization of Maul I’ve ever found hands down

DarthOmicron: ‘Imprisoned’-- excellent stuff. has written many things on AO3

there’s a lot more good maul stuff i’m not posting here because A. i’m too lazy to write it down & B. a lot of it is straight-up porn.  Well written porn, but porn nonetheless.

TFA

Sundogsailor: Something Close to Useful -- trigger warnings abound with this fic. read the tags, please. Have’t read their new stuff but I bet it’s fantastic.

Jakkucrew: Kylo Leaves. Hux hates him -- personality-wise is canon-compliant kylux. NSFW themes. Note!! they have a lot of new stuff which is probably great. haven't read it yet tho

MaragaretKire: Flicker in the Void , Embers in the Ash -- the characterization & development of characters in these ones are GREAT oohhh boyyyy

PermianExtinction: Flashburn -- I really liked the development of the Knights of Ren in this one. Heart wrenching kylux if I remember correctly. I cried.

I have a lot more TFA recs but I don't feel like doing them right now. :)

happy reading

[gallirae]

My first gallirae fic, written pre-Empire’s End, about the Battle of Jakku -- it’s a one-shot but is also written to be a slice of a larger story we don’t see much of. 

Honestly it’s interesting for me to go back and re-examine this, see what ended up being similar between this and the actual Sloane vs. Rax confrontation, and what was different. 

[beautifulinternet]

A Syrian child mistakes a camera, held by a member of the Red Cross, for a gun Credit: @PermianExtinction. See more here

[kyluxsweetlove]

Chapters: 2/3 Fandom: Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015), Star Wars - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: former Brendol Hux/"Kitchen Woman" Characters: Armitage Hux, Brendol Hux, The Mysterious Kitchen Woman Additional Tags: Force-Sensitive Hux, Young Hux, Copious Amounts of Rain and Fish, bittersweet fluff, Tense Family Relations, Armitage's Mom is Dark Side, Flawed Parental Figures Summary:

Before he knew of the grand galactic conflict that had spanned generations, he knew of the ships in the sky. Before he had a destiny, he had simple curiosity. Before he lived aboard exiled Star Destroyers, he lived in a little house by the sea on Arkanis. Before he had a father, he had a mother.

Before he was General Armitage Hux, he was Tag.

[ao3feed-kyloren]

Memory of Snow

read it on AO3 at http://ift.tt/2rMtlmW

by PermianExtinction

Three years after the defeat of the Order, Kylo Ren finds that his secluded cabin has an improbable intruder.

Words: 4530, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015), Star Wars Sequel Trilogy

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen, M/M

Characters: Armitage Hux, Kylo Ren

Relationships: Armitage Hux/Kylo Ren

Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Vague Allusions to a Good Guy Victory, Hermit Kylo, Only slightly shippy, Angst

read it on the AO3 at http://ift.tt/2rMtlmW

[ememoria]

"Sometimes Marco had dreams of flying..." When an earnest young man becomes a trial patient in an experimental regenerative treatment, he finds himself witnessing the seeds of mankind's eventual near-extinction being sown... and, centuries in the future, humanity is left to face the consequences, but not without the help of a strangely gentle Titan found in the forest. JeanMarco, an alternate continuity fic describing how the Titans came to be and how the world we know became the desperate future of Shingeki no Kyojin

WHY HASN'T EVERY JEANMARCO FAN READ THIS FIC. 

It's a WIP multi-chapter reincarnation meets in-canon-universe, exploring how the Titans came to be, amazing characterization (Hanji is amazing, Moblit is amazing, Levi is amazing, and I threw my hands into the air at how Mikasa was written everyone is perf) and best of all exploring Jean and Marco's relationship and why haven't you read this fic---

I'm probably going to write a proper review when I have a free moment or whenever the fic is finished (whichever comes first) but I highly recommend checking it out.

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Mind-map illustrations for  Chapters 4-7 of The World Is Beautiful Indeed, a Pathologic Fanfiction by PermianExtinction & Excalibutt. 

Part 1  Part 2