#and the seeming connection to the Lightless Flame that if accurate sets up sort of a rivalry between the two entities
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Jane Prentiss’s landlord underwent pyroptosis send post
#Jane Prentiss#TMA#MAG 55#immunology#pyroptosis#I’m lowkey fascinated rn by the way multiple encounters with The Corruption have been solved by arson#and the seeming connection to the Lightless Flame that if accurate sets up sort of a rivalry between the two entities#paralleling the balance between immunological tolerance and reactivity#and how the difference between bugs infesting buildings and pathogens infesting bodies is#at least in the context of the Corruption#only a matter of scale#the flat is a body#the landlord its immune system#attempting to maintain the boundaries between self and nonself#and the hive an infection which—up until that point—had succeeded in evading the innate immune response#but the landlord is not a complete functioning immune system#all he can do is react against what is foreign#but there is more to any life than a single organism whose cells descend from a common progenitor#and without tolerance there can be no self to defend#or any sort of symbiosis—parasitic commensal or mutualistic#and that’s not even getting into the rivalry the Corruption seems to have with the Eye#to be seen and known and bound and remembered does tend to rob pathogens of their power#and from a purely mental fear standpoint I don’t really see a compelling reason why seeing and learning about a disease would#take away the fear of it#but also I’m only a few episodes into season 2 of TMA so I may be a bit uninformed#rambling in the tags
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