#classification system

[departmentofesotericdreams]

General Information and Explanations for the Department of Esoteric Dreams.

Main document for dream classifications and DoED jargon.

[druidicentropy]

Honestly ya'll I really dislike the Encyclopedia of Fairies by Bane Theresa, she essentially just went through world mythology and just slapped the fae label onto anything that has any sort of connection with nature and it's so INFRIATING how it directly calls something as being apart of the fae but then within the fucking books own energy itself it directly contradicts itself by mentioning they're a completely different nonhuman species entirely, IT REALLY JUST ANNOYS THE FUCK OUT OF ME😭 I've been thinking about kind of creating my own like speculative classification system for mythological beings purely out of spite for this one book tbh

I personally think she's one of the writers that have influenced this idea that some people have about the "fae existing on every single continent" belief that I've seen some Celtic pagans regurgitate and it honestly doesn't really sit right with me since yeah if you're just casting the net as wide as fucking possible and including every single nonhuman being that's even remotely connected with nature then of course you're gonna come to that conclusion 💀

I've been getting into like speculative biology so this has been on my mind for the last couple of days and just how absolutely disorganized all of the actual classifications for mythological & fictional monsters/beings actually is so I might end up just cobbling together my own methods cuz my autism hates how vague it all ends up being and also how it can sometimes be used negatively against other cultures and is kind of a colonization tactic that's been used for a really long time most notably by the Romans and later on by the colonial powers so even though there's no actual intention to do harm it's somewhat rooted in not great methods if that makes sense?

Kind of just wanted to spew my thoughts on this topic a little bit since it's made me realize how unhelpful the overall classification system for what is/isn't fae is just nonexistent so I wanted to prompt everyone with the following question: what traits do ya'll think something has to have either in their behaviors, traits, use of magic, and appearances for it to actually be classified as being apart of the fae?

[heroesofchroma]

Power Classifications

Since it'll be relevant and readers might've had questions already; Here's the standard of how powered individuals are classified.

There's a lot of classifications in total, but only 4 major classifications, as follows;

Technological = Anything brought on by technology and sciences. Think gadgeteers, incredibly skilled marksmen, power armor pilots... If you're more or less a normal person, you're probably under this umbrella, if any. Rampart is a perfect example of this tree.

Mutation = Anything brought on by a mutation of some kind. Fomorian falls under this tree, for example. Mutants are also the only tree that, more often than not, falls under multiple overall trees. Keeping on Fomorian, he's primarily a mutant, but also falls under the Technological tree.

Mystical = This is where you'd find any sort of magi, construct, elemental, etc. For further info, see the post about the magic system, but as an example, Celestia falls here.

Kinetic = Here's where things get weird, cause Kinetics are the ONLY tree where NO ONE really falls into another tree BECAUSE of their Kinetic powers. A Kinetic controls a VERY SPECIFIC powerset. These powersets do NOT trigger any magical sensors of any kind, despite having nothing to do with technology and looking incredibly like magic. Not much is really known about how Kinetics work yet, but the limits of how much a Kinetic can control are pushed farthest by Centurion City's own Sentinella, who seems to have control of just about any kind of stone, from sandstone to basalt to even concrete and asphalt.

This is the overall classification system used, and how Heroes are labeled by symbol in Chroma's database. A Green Circuit for Tech, a Blue DNA Strand for Mutant, A Purple Spiral for Mystic, and an Orange Hand for Kinetic.

As stated, there's more specific classifications, easy examples being Pyromancer vs. Pyrokinetic, or Loader Armor Pilot vs. Bulwark Mutation. However, those tend to be used by specific syndicates and organizations, and aren't an official part of Chroma's classification system. Chroma will, however, note any title the individual Hero prefers when signing up in the Hero's description.

[the-library-of]

We here at the library of pride ourselves in providing the most anatomically correct classification system consciously known to specieskind, so you can find whatever you wish to locate in a organbeat.

[starry-bi-sky]

bruce and danny being fuckign nerds together,,,, they are being the BIGGEST nerds. geeks. if you will

these losers are color-coding the most inane bullshit. they are making diagrams for things you've never even thought of. they are having the time of their lives

"what are you two doing?"

Danny, sitting criss-cross on a table, hunched over a spread of papers and a bunch of different jello cups, his back is gonna hurt SO much: color-coding jello

Bruce, sitting in a nearby chair, also criss-cross, scribbling on a graph paper: hm [agreeing]

Alfred, already exasperated and SO fond: may i ask why? and on what parameters?

Danny: we're basing it off which flavors are the most mentally stimulating and for which subjects :}

Alfred, SO fond: ah. i see.

Danny, snapping his head over to Bruce and leaning over: wh- no-- no. Buzz, I told you: lemon-flavored jello stays strictly in the 'smelling salts' category--

Bruce, still writing on the graph paper: mn. no.

Danny, nearly sprawled across his back, faux-outraged: strawberry is NOT good for math-- you fucken HEATHEN--! Give me that pen!

Bruce, did that solely to rile up Danny, now trying not to smile: hnm.

[your-dewey-decimal-number-is]

Hey man, can you explain what the decimals in the system mean? I get that 001-099 and so on are specifics, but what do the .# mean?

The Dewey Decimal Classification system allows every non-fiction topic to be categorized under one of ten broad subjects, each starting with a different digit (see my pinned post).

Say you were looking for a book about narwhals

5XX: science 59X: zoology 599: mammals 599.5: cetacea and sirenia (aquatic mammals) 599.54: other toothed whales (most whales are under 599.52, and dolphins are under 599.53, while 599.55 is about manatees and dugongs) 599.543: narwhals

Every digit after the decimal point represents a subcategory of the previous. The more digits you add, the more specific the classification. It's turtles all the way down; some subjects are so dense that you need long strings of digits to find exactly what you're looking for. Softball is under 796.3578. Mayan folklore is under 398.2097281. The Beatles are under 782.4216609; that's the exact same number of digits as Mayan folklore, so you'd think they'd have the subcategory all to themselves, but no, they share it with a ton of other bands because it actually represents the broad topic "history, geographic treatment, and biography of specific rock songs."

Not every single subject gets that granular. In fact, most require less than six digits total because there aren't going to be that many books on any given subject to warrant that level of specificity. 551.312 represents everything to do with glaciers; whether they're from Norway or Antarctica (complete opposite sides of the globe), they share the same six digits. There's really no need for more.

But just because a topic exists doesn't necessarily mean your library will carry books about it; mine, for example, has several non-fiction books about platypuses (599.29) but none about possums (599.23). Damn shame.

Feel free to submit any posts you want me to classify, or shoot me an ask if you have a specific topic in mind.

[shitpostingkats]

The thing about how revolutionary trans-coded Sho Minamimoto feels is that this is a character that is undergoing an unsettling, upsetting, life-changing metamorphosis, who wants people to look at him. He literally claws his way out of the grave and the first thing he does is demand compliments. "This is my newest masterpiece. I call it: Myself!" The lyrics to his boss theme are all about commanding the listener to witness him and every change he's going through. "You, keep your eyes on this corruption / Come on, yes, you should watch this transformation" He's rearranging his organs and screaming at people to pay attention to it.

In trying to find trans narratives, often times it's easy to point to characters that are reserved and body shy. Heck, twewy itself has several characters that are trans-coded because they quietly shift their appearance and don't like talking about their physical selves. Because that's what trans people often feel like they have to do. We're expected to quietly go offscreen and change ourselves and come back a different person.

Minamimoto refuses to do that. He takes great joy in making people behold him. He feels great pride in the body he's crafted for himself, even while he's in the middle of building it. He demands attention, even as he's in a state of change. And, importantly, he never feels one iota of shame about it.

[flame-of-tar-valon]

firstly: there is no way a bastion of learning like sharlayan would amass knowledge without inventing at least a rudimentary system of classification. the library of alexandria grouped its papyri by subject and had indices with detailed bibliographic information.

secondly: no logical or rational classification system would organize books the way the noumenon does ingame. I understand it's supposed to be, from a game point of view, a "puzzle" inasmuch as the game has puzzles: go around and interact with them all to find the right ones! but that's not fun.

if they had leaned into systematic classification, represented geographically throughout the building, the puzzle aspect could have been more engaging. you're looking for books about old sharlayan and the forum, so books about new sharlayan/the colony are closer than books about heliocentrism and constellations; through a similar game of hot-and-cold you eventually find the shelf of books about the subject you're looking for.

[castieldelamancha]

thinking hard right now about ed sitting between stede legs letting him comb and braid his hair, holding a book so stede can read out loud for both of them while he works, relishing in the intimacy and vulnerability of it all but also impatiently waiting for stede to be done so he can lay back against him

[housecow]

Your post about Vermont and New Hampshire might be the most Texan thing you've ever posted and not in a good way lmao

HAHA dude they’re both under 10,000m^2 in terms of area… that is INSANE to me!! not to mention they were glaciated and have so many lakes bc of it too, it’s not even solid land 😭

would love to visit tho, one day!! and i was fr when asking for facts :3

OH and there’s like super no cool fossils there :// stupid glacial scrubbing. i don’t like paleozoic stuff

[essektheylyss]

It's very interesting that both Allura in this episode and Essek in 2.124 frame the Luxon as a pre-Founding entity that has been in Exandria since before the Primordials or the pantheon, because it really does complicate the idea of gods as a single unified classification. Discussions around, say, the Raven Queen's ascension and Artagan's godhood are interesting of course, but lend themselves to a hierarchy of being and power—mortals and archfey must be elevated to a higher position to reach a place among the gods—but the Luxon throws a wrench into the hierarchy itself.

Fandom discussions around the Luxon referring to it as an entity tend to feed into this hierarchy as well, even when framing the Luxon in a positive light, by placing the classification of god or deity as a literal higher power in a contemporary and very sociopolitical conceptualization of "power," positioning anything in that role as inherently oppressive, and I think this also does the conversation a disservice. A better metaphor, in my opinion, is to compare deities to the fundamental forces of physics.

The way that dunamis has been said to intertwine with reality on a minute level and the Luxon's extension of divine power without direct communication suggests to me that its power in relation to other deities is somewhat akin to gravity itself—gravity is the weakest of the fundamental forces, but much farther reaching, and therefore it exerts a massive influence on the cosmos in spite of that lesser strength.* This echoes the complexities of trying to rely upon a hierarchy of being in this discussion, because such hierarchies are always constructed and imposed, not inherent. Sometimes they are constructed by those positioned at the top, and other times not, but from any angle, regardless of field, they tend to be used to justify some moral stance and standing.

This is utterly negated by the Luxon's existence. Whatever can be said about it as an entity, it seems to be an inherently amoral being—it does not seem to concern itself with moral questions, and very possibly has no capacity to do so. At the same time, dunamis seems to be enmeshed within the reality of the Material Plane and the Weave itself, perhaps even the Skein of Fate—as described, dunamis may well be the very particulate matter comprising the choices of everything in the cosmos and how those choices intertwine.

The Raven Queen, as an ascended mortal, can look upon the individual heroes of the story and acknowledge them, validate them, but the Luxon has no inherent position from which to look, and as such evades any positionality within the constructed hierarchy upon which the questions of this campaign hinge.

*Complicating this metaphor is the fact that gravity's weakness means it doesn't exert significant influence on a micro scale, but I do not ever purport to suggest that dunamancy is a one-to-one mirror of the realities of quantum mechanics, not least because Matt is definitely no more a physicist than I am.

[basra-of-the-crows]

Basra’s classification of the fear entities:

(Keep in mind these are derived independently from canon and follow observations Basra made- any parentheses here is just OOC explanations!)

The Ones Beyond Us are compiled of 3 main categories, although some of them can be split off into more minor Ones depending on the level of specificity desired during classification.

1) The Ones Of The Mind - those who feed off and are derived from the fear that is caused by simply having a mind (with which the world is perceived from), although due to their nature, this also bleeds into the others due to the nature in which the psyche and body are connected

[the entities that fall into this category are the following: the spiral and stranger (general fear of madness and things not making sense, something being wrong in a way you can’t quite place + issues regarding identity), the eye (the need to know even if it destroys you, the need to keep secrets even if it will doom you), most aspects of the lonely, the end (incomprehensibility of death and the general beliefs surrounding the afterlife), the vast (specifically the aspects of cosmic irrelevance and the fact your actions don’t have an impact on a cosmic scale), the web (your choices and thoughts not being your own)]

2) The Ones Of The Body - those who are derived from or feed from the fear that stems from having a body, wether that be: A) direct harm that happens to one’s body, or B) the body working against one’s mind/wellbeing

[some entities associated with this category are: the flesh, the corruption, the web (loss of control over the actions you take), slaughter/desolation (potential harm or injuries that may occur), the end, etc.]

3) The External Ones - this is one of the most vague categories, as it encompasses a lot the other aspects of fear that are unrelated to the mind or body, but its formal definition is that of the Ones derived from or which feed off anything that is external to the body or mind. Due to their vague nature, The External Ones can be seen as acting as multiple smaller deities, forming:

3A) The Ones Of Proximity - the ones derived from the fear of the (amount of) space that one’s body exists within, existing in the extremes of too much or too little space, or being lost. ———————— [entities that fall under this sub category: the vast, the buried and certain aspects of the lonely.]

3B-i) The Ones Of Surroundings - derived from fears caused by the immediate area around someone, this contains the fear of being followed, getting caught in the blast of something that can hurt or kill you, or everything you know around you. Your surroundings becoming unrecognizable. [entities that belong in this category: desolation, hunt, slaughter (fear of pain, stalking and potential harm that may come of it), extinction, possible stranger/spiral influences]

3Bii) The Ones Who Follow - this is a derivation of The Ones Of Surroundings, specifically concerning stalking of most kinds, the fear of being discovered or followed with bad intentions, potential for pain or secrets revealed that may damage a person’s wellbeing (social, mental or physical) [cont. of eye, lonely, and hunt]

3C) The Unknowable Ones - with some crossover with (3Bi), this is for those which manifest and feed off of the fear and desperation caused by the changing and unrecognizable nature of one’s surroundings. The feeling that their perception of their surroundings cannot be trusted or that they are wholly unknown. (/in hastily scribbled hand writing/:”the experiences of a door leading not where you entered it from.”). ———————— ([entities under this classification include: the dark, the stranger and spiral, the vast])

(@gerry-the-archivist you asked and you shall receive! Hope you enjoy)

[alivehouse]

if i made a masterpost compiling all the alivehouse horror related media i know would anyone gaf

[mochayoubi]

i was very surprised at how difficult it was to find (good) resources for learners that accurately describe how 部首 (in English we translate this to be the "radical") work in 漢字 (kanji). i pulled these from a very comprehensive guide of kanji from おじゃちゃん, a native speaker who is also a language teacher and if youre interested in learning more, you should check out her full overview here.

to a beginner this might not be as useful - but when you get deep enough into japanese i think it's worth it to understand how kanji is actually used by native speakers. understanding how the radical works can also help you guess at meanings and recognize common patterns that may make memorizing kanji easier

[unmooredonasundayevening]

The Milgram crew going skiing:

Haruka: Does much better than the others expect him to! Takes to it naturally with proper instruction.

Yuno: Isn't a fan. Spends most of the time drinking hot chocolate in the ski lodge.

Fuuta: Struggles to even put on skis. Someone help this boy.

Muu: Knows skiing technique and etiquette even if she's not too enthusiastic about it herself.

Shidou: Hopelessly clumsy. But unlike Fuuta, manages to get his skis on.

Mahiru: Doesn't bother trying. Just admires the pretty scenery. Kind of scared of skiing.

Kazui: Has been skiing quite a few times in his life but doesn't consider himself a "skier" because he thinks it's a rich person's hobby. Can manage a red slope.

Amane: I have a headcanon that in her religious group, outdoor activities were one of the few outlets that children were allowed to have, because they foster an appreciation of nature. So I don't think she'd be opposed to skiing the way she might be opposed to other fun things. She would take her lessons VERY seriously and I think she would enjoy it.

Mikoto: Never had the time to ski, but falls in love with it when given the chance. Wants to conquer the black slopes!

Kotoko: Is trying to teach herself to ski and refuses formal lessons. Getting mixed results, so far.