#effluence

[thethcministry]

[idiotcoward]

Effluence - Psychocephalic Spawning This is one of the most interesting Avant-Garde Metal Albums I have ever heard. For one this record is incredibly fucking brutal. So many Avant-Garde metal albums seems to take the route of "What if Metal but not brutal??" And i hate it. I love experimentation and obviously I respect anyone's artistic vision if it is what excites them and motivates them to make art. Art doesn't have to be violent or brutal to be good, but let's be real. There is a reason we are the kinds of people who are attracted to this shit and it isn't always because we enjoy complex guitar playing. There is a certain importance to the aesthetic. The vibe. And this album has it in spades. SO First Off, the mother fucking vocals. I don't know how people make this insect sounding guttural growl that sounds like an insane clicking almost Marimba or Xylophone like sound to it but mixed with a mutant. I have no idea but it is one of my favorite styles of metal vocals simply because it sounds fucking inhuman and insane. I want to learn about this, so can someone please teach me how to do it???? On top of that the guitar playing is just... fucking insane. Impossibly fast, complex. Perfectly technically executed. Perfectly mastered. Just fucking amazing how well they integrated these guitars into all the other instruments. And I do mean all the other instruments. On top of some amazing drum playing, and some bass playing that is just as impressive and insane as the guitar playing, to my ear, there is a saxophone, flute, some kind of xylophone like instrument, synths, samples, Harsh noise samples, and all sorts of stuff. If you ever need proof that flute playing can be brutal as fuck please just listen to the sound Devouring Gray Matter, because it will convince you the instant you hear the flute start to pop off. Essentially, this is one of, if not the most innovative death metal album I've heard, and I can't wait to hear what this band is going to do next. Fucking absolute freaks. I love it.

[skullgrind]

EFFLUENCE - Devouring Gray Matter (Unofficial Music Video)

[jon-9000]

Effluence - Necrobiology

[catominor]

CAIUS MARTINUS, ROMES SLUTTIEST GENERAL!!!

[random-xpressions]

I do not know what you're composed of: milk, wine or honey. But whatever it be, I'm pretty sure that your essence is so damn addictive and intoxicating that I would trade both my worlds to have just a drop of You...

Random Xpressions

[thethcministry]

[undinesea]

Different places on the face of the earth have different vital effluence, a different vibration of chemical exhalation, a different polarity with the stars; call it what you like. But the spirit of a place is a great reality.

D.H. Lawrence, from Art and the Spirit of Place: D.H. Lawrence Translates Giovanni Verga

[talonabraxas]

"Semele, penetrated by the divine effluence, regenerated and purified by this consecration, dies struck by lightning and with her dies the genius of terrestrial love, the genius with the goat hooves" Gustave Moreau (1826–1898)

Jupiter and Semele Talon Abraxas

[mimedna]

the Hemophage

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a horrifying bloodborne disease that has been moving around settlements for decades.

spread via fluids (mainly blood) this torturous disease is often called Morak's Touch for the horeible pain it inflicts. by attacking bloodvessels and soft tissues first the afflicted will quickly find themselves bleeding from the ears, nose, eyes, and mouth. the disease also influences the bone marrow to begin producing higher amounts of hemoglobin, thus ensuring a steady supply of effluence from these orrifices. the constant pour of highly infectious fluids maximizes the disease's spread, with it eating through small communities like a wildfire through dry brush. Within a month an infected person will have reduced from an average human into a crimson blood-slick idiot, shuffling about, and crying out in pain.

there is little that can cure this disease but traveling alchemists claim there is a white wax harvested from fungus eating bees in the far east. that has the ability to cure this ailment.

Virality: high

Status Effects: TBD

Vector: Blood

Cure: White Beeswax

more stuff from the ttrpg im working on with @clericalcr0w

[energyprison]

Inflect/Effect/Affect

Influence/Effluence/Affluence

Infection/Effection/Affection

[neoatlantiscodex]

WALL-E

One of my favourite movies. Everything is done fantastically, but one of the big things I love about it is that the Utopian and Dystopian aspects are the same.

For those that haven't watched WALL-E, GO AND WATCH IT.

First off, Earth.

What happened to Earth is that a megacorporation took over every aspect of society. And, in all honesty, they weren't that bad. They were not evil in any way other than their omnipresence. They aren't shown doing the typical evil corporate dystopian things. We don't see them turn the working class into slaves, no evil robots, nou panopticon, nothing.

And they still destroyed the world.

But, luckily for me, none of it was Capitalism. Monopolies and oligopolies are not Capitalism. And when one gets close to taking over the government, it's closer to Fascism than Capitalism.

The next is externalizing costs. Basically, poison. One of the keep aspects of Capitalism is that profit follows risk. The reason they can hoard their profit is that they took all of the risk. If you externalize the risk but keep the profit, you are a thief. The big costs that are being externalized are the destruction of nature and poisons, in particular, forever chemicals.

Forever chemicals are entirely man-made and not found in nature. These have no natural mechanism to break them down, and as such, literally last forever.

Plastics are almost this, as there are natural mechanisms being discovered, (i.e. mushrooms). They can be turned into artificial bitumen, but you don't really get energy out of it. It should be noted that plastic recycling is not really a thing, and 99% of the plastic sent out for recycling is exported to the third world to either be burnt, or left on the beach for the tides.

On the other end, monitoring companies for poison effluence is expensive and demanding.

Now onto space. The company did something truly remarkable, admit fault. Yes, it was way too late, and only because there were no governments left to punish them for it or force them to ameliorate.

So, the company builds colossal, fully automated space cruise liners. Every (surviving?) person on Earth would get a fully catered space cruise. This sounds great, until you remember that the difference between Star Trek and Judge Dredd is the Human need to contribute. You end up with Humans nearly atrophied from existence. Kids are not raised by Humans, but machines, and Humans never leave their hover beds.

The hover beds were designed to allow weak and infirm family members to the family in whatever they were doing, and...

it was just so convenient they never left, ever. Humans never stood on their own two feet, to the point they literally forgot about all of the physical luxuries of the cruise ships. They were in paradise, where they lived off providence instead of tilling the soil, and their bodies rotted from atrophy. It wasn't until the very existence of Humanity and Holy Terra was in jeopardy that they - literally - stood up.

[jon-9000]

Effluence - Psychocephalic Spawning

[adobongsiopao]

This Jane played by Sorcha Cusack from "Jane Eyre" 1973 version of is quite strange. What's something different about her compare to other Jane from different versions is that she smiles many times. When I first watched the 1973 version, I admit it was not easy to understand her because she looked too confident and quite a smug whereas in other versions of Jane they're usually look somber or quite serious. Upon replaying the show few times, I'm beginning to understand and even appreciate why this Jane does that habit.

It's in the novel and Mr. Rochester loves her smile.

Surprise, surprise. It is mentioned in the novel that Jane does smile in some occasions and Mr. Rochester admits in few chapters that he loves to see her in that state. It's not much compare to 1973 version but it does something special about her and made Mr. Rochester fall in love with her.

"Look wicked, Jane: as you know well how to look: coin one of your wild, shy, provoking smiles; tell me you hate me—tease me, vex me; do anything but move me: I would rather be incensed than saddened." (Chapter 25)

"There was much sense in your smile: it was very shrewd, and seemed to make light of your own abstraction." (Chapter 27)

"I believe you felt the existence of sympathy between you and your grim and cross master, Jane; for it was astonishing to see how quickly a certain pleasant ease tranquillised your manner: snarl as I would, you showed no surprise, fear, annoyance, or displeasure at my moroseness; you watched me, and now and then smiled at me with a simple yet sagacious grace I cannot describe." (Chapter 27)

Her smiles needed to make her and Mr. Rochester's chemistry and humor to work in the show.

The 1973 version has a reputation for being light-hearted and there are many funny moments there compare to other versions. In order to make that happen, the relationship between Jane and Mr. Rochester is portrayed as gleeful and grumpy pairing - Jane is seen perpetually amused and patient while Mr. Rochester is sarcastic and prone to be serious. Mr. Rochester, portrayed by Michael Jayston is often look grumpy and say whatever things he has on his mind then Jane choose to remain cool and say something funny to counter his thoughts. It actually works and it results to a great chemistry between them. Now can you to imagine what if Jane looked sad often in the show.

It has a tragic backstory - she learned it from Helen

While there is humor in 1973, it doesn't forget that there at least few moments that are sad just like in the novel. One of them is the story of Helen. Helen is one of the few people in Lowood that Jane befriended. She taught Jane how to remain humble and forgiving after the latter experienced abuse in Gateshead Hall. In this version, Helen herself is often seen smiling and it says so in the novel.

"What a smile! I remember it now, and I know that it was the effluence of fine intellect, of true courage; it lit up her marked lineaments, her thin face, her sunken grey eye, like a reflection from the aspect of an angel." (Chapter 7)

Even on her death, Helen chose to smile and told Jane who was seen sad and some sort of scaredy-cat not to worry about her. This could probably explain why adult Jane remain looking optimistic. We never know when Jane started to do it but whenever she does that she learned it from Helen.