#equiaxe

[clementineskesh]

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i know how it sounds to dislike leap with my url dsfhsdfjh but istg i liked him BEST when he was "no offense clem but we dont like clem or trust clem" or otherwise antagonizing clem i thought he was right and funny, its just also that i found him otherwise really boring in a way keith characters rarely are to me. i like him with milli, but a lot of the time he just did nothing for me and felt like he was actively steering the story into uninteresting places. to me.

[madetolooklikeus]

got really into the weird guy I made up last night on clementine-kesh's branchedsona post, so I put them in the f@tt-sona template @aglennco made last year

[clementine-kesh]

i’m so glad that even though friends at the table is not a particularly horny show the fan base more than makes up for it

[cadmium-free]

I’m obsessed with Mustard Red’s magazine that kills people. Not to be like overly in the weeds, not to cinemasins it, but I love thinking too hard about it. How did they make it? Does it kill everyone who reads it? Can it kill a Divine? A Branched? An Equiaxed? Who photographed the spread? Could looking at the fashion in person kill you too, or is it only when photographed, or only when printed? Who was the graphic designer? Who was the editor? Did they make it deadly on purpose or was it an accident? Who printed it? Are they still alive? How many copies were made? Where was it sold? How would you store the magazine? Does Mustard Red read it, or just have it? Has Mustard Red’s specific magazine ever killed anyone? Is the deadly spread sealed together like porn in a magazine sometimes is? Has she peeked, JUST PEEKED, at the spread? Did she tape the pages shut for safety? Y’know??

[swallowtailed]

palisade 61 / finalisade side b track 5

i love when janine pushes plot points because they're always incredible. thisbe is growing an organic divine!!!!!!!!!!! the divine arbor! god it's SO cool

and it's pretty easy to ask, what is really the difference between growth via mitosis and rebirth of a divine via gumption. both are inherent to the organism, right? (also you could read the equiaxed as a similar grafting process.)

anyway love to take concrete action in the precarious space as the boundary of a social construct. thisbe's plotline in the finalisade has been so compelling to me. standout of the season tbh

i'm still very very curious about how thisbe's been growing this divine (what did it start from??), but i'm sure we'll get into the implications eventually

interesting discussion of invasiveness in this ep re the divine pollen gambit. i would also like to contextualize said gambit in terms of solar geoengineering, specifically the various aerosol injection proposals that have been put forward in recent years. which are all just so... fucked

(i really do not have the time rn to put together actual analysis using geoengineering ethics (or invasiveness, even. which tells you exactly how much i do not have the time) but i do think it'd be interesting)

oh lmao and while i'm on real world analogues, the pollen injection concept is literally just crispr. space magic crispr

anyway the thing i loved about the space magic crispr approach was asepsis being a conduit for the divine arbor to grow on/in motion. asepsis as a decomposer turning motion into substrate for plants... pulling the embodient of undeath back into the cycle... fucking excellent

thisbe rights

ok other non-plant notes

banger intro. it's cool to see the season-long motif of movement framed as a defense of stillness. also obv we're familiar with motion & undeath at this point but it still hits tbh

also the new music was great

cori and the dad smashers band tour tshirts when

really enjoyed cori's honorable duel that she won with the power of love

brnine and thisbe... who are you to each other... please do not die...

levi doing mad max was very fun

feel like there's been a lot of "stratus-style" descriptions lately. curious where the definition/role of strati currently stands

can feel the fatt engine spinning up now and i'm excited about it

[fanyeline]

listening to episode 56 like wait, who is this person? who is that guy? who is... what is going on???? who is the equiaxed robot who isnt gur but was like his fan? or something? who is the .. why is the lady from apostolos here now?

petition to friends at the table to please, please, think of their audience members who do not have the ability to remember or even care about all of these characters

like i get it but i don't get it lol.

[banneduser-ripcohost]

Non exhaustive Normalized ranking of F@tT divine cycle characters that are definitely Black (in the spirit of https://youtu.be/Gqj6saBa1-U)

Spoilers for Palisade too

1 - A.O. and K.O. Rooke - these characters are our maximum black for our normalized rankings I don’t even need to elaborate. WE know.

Also 1 - Eclectic. Dude his ancestors were enslaved. Keith’s description of his favorite teapot 🫖 doesn’t at all contradict the fact that he is black.

1- Partial Palisade

0.999 - Brnine. WE know.

0.9 - Thisbe. Thisbe doesn’t take shit from ANYONE. For this, WE know.

0.85 Connadine - i imagined him as Jeffrey White just now and I’ve irreversibly affected my image of him what the fuck.

0.85 - Gentian. It’s great to imagine her pull to the twilight mirage as being ancestrally personal to her. Could be played by Viola Davis

0.8 - Exeter Leap - leap is almost certainly black, like Afro-Caribbean vibes. Pirate of the obvious joke. Key for me is his consistent refusal to play nice with authority and his insistence that he’s gettin the fuck outta here lol. Also shiny rings contrast really nicely with dark skin and he would pick that as Equiaxed. See current pic lol.

0.8 - Cori. Very much so. She’s from the twilight mirage. Pink hair contrasts extremely well with like brown skin. Plus the white and black wings really hit different. I gotta redraw Cori to reflect this honestly

0.7 Phrygian - Phrygian is black. From so far away that he actually enjoys boilerplate principality dogshit. Like I’m reminded of some of my friends from like Algeria and Congo would enjoy things I took for granted as a U.S. American. Phrygian could be voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson.

0.69 Gucci Garantine - yes we know she’s canonically vitiligo. But in order for her to be a serious Kesh she’s gotta be like whatever “mixed” would be for Kesh Aristocracy. Kesh is canonically space racist and Gucci’s ancestry would have baked that in.

[bolshevikitherat]

I really hope we get to see the Nobel or Equiaxed some more, they were some of my favorite parts of PARTIZAN and I feel like they deserve some more time in the spotlight

[peacereturnedtothevalley]

fuck it I’m crossposting, here’s my livetweets for palisade 24. I put it on cohost too but I need to Post Everywhere you see

Also if anyone has suggestions on how I should live post spoilers when I have a disease and plan on posting on 3 different sites until further notice please let me know. The answer is to simply stop posting

Anyways

I didn’t realize theres a whole sun mission moon mission situation going on here…. Also I feel actively unwell listening to this the content warning just obliterated normal functions. I too am feverish

ham slurpers

GANG GANG SOLAR COMBUSTION SO GOOD NO SPICY FUCK OFFFFF

Mustard red does npc tiktok im losing m y mind

Everyone taking a big breath with this good roll including me

chimeric cadent… what does that mean…

man fuck off clem theres enough going on

ancient enemy of the iconoclasts… we have been three different people…….. i swesr to god if this is the waking cadent and signet and some third thing i will scream.

Its bug like in some forms. I swesr to god if my signet is still alive theory was right but like this …………………. Bro austin is pranking me right now im being personally trolled

“A third life in this place where life is sacred…” kamala cadence was the one who was hesitant about divines dying… reading the wiki real quick thats the reason why her and independence fell out huh

Actively jokerfying about this

I keep looking at the time hoping they wont have enough time to get to sun party gjshdh

IWAS RIGHT ITS BELGARD CADENT SIGNET. AUSTIN. IM RUNNING AROUND DOING LUNGES I need to catch my breath. I was going to not do capslock for any of my rot13 threads but i do not know how to how could I not

Barricade… Volicity…. Bounty…. Loyalty……….. just listing the ones I recognize

Nooooo back to sun crew

Its really going to explode in the next 20 minutes huh its just going to end when something so compelling happened on the moon party and its going to explodeand everyone dies huh

Im a little calmer at this moment and just being pre-dissapointed and I guess its poignant maybe if it all blows up but like cmon .

This didnt bother me as much but this is probably what people felt about all the divines and ships described in tm ep 00 just being there to die right at the start except its been like 40 episodes of build up

fifteen minutes left

the sun side has felt like theyve been diffusing a bomb since the beginning of this arc and the timer is counting down Fast

Nine minutes left

four minutes

failed roll is here

Okay. Music is on. Things have messed up but no explosion yet. So analyzing the ep, I don’t think they would put on a content warning just to keep spoilers vague (I mean I was assuming this whole time just in case but it does feel irresponsible)

the mass death/genocide warning was probably regarding chimera’s lantern and what happened when the principality decided to “eradicate” the last of advent OR its regarding asepsis’s actions against the equiaxed in partizan. Either way things are bad for sun side…theyve been ending the episodes like this every time so far lmao. But it has not exploded Yet. Imagine if the next ep is like 30 minutes long lmao

I feel like im breathing for the first time in two point five hours

[humanmorph]

my millie+leap friendship thoughts except it's actually mostly about millie. i tried to make this readable (coherency-wise)... and it's not even everything i have in my head about them. just a few words:

I looove Millie+Leap friendship (in my head it's Millie'n'Leap like one word. It's fun to say) I think they are besties.

I also think that „Leap has my back as long as it's convenient for him.“ sure is A belief to have about your best friend!!! & I really like that!! (We are not even talking about LEAP’S Millie beliefs. Those are only like, borderline positive or negative. And I also like that. He’s kind of a bitch. This isn't about him though honestly mostly Millie & though I THINK I could write more, it would be wayyyy extrapolating than even this.) I mean like, those beliefs aren't/don't have to be the whole descriptor of/the characters whole relationship, but they are there for a reason! So. I’m simply thinking about it and turning it around in my head.

And it’s just good Millie characterization too for me (also for Leap, as the other person in this relationship, but I simply have thought about Millie more on account of She's My Favourite & can speak better to how I interpret this from her perspective). It's the first close friendship she's made after being on the run from everything she's ever known (which sucked. GLORY was bad but she did also have friends & people she cared about then... See Si’dra) & then she gets captured and forced to do the same shit AGAIN? Under someone like Clementine Kesh? This is a bonding experience. It's a bad one but it is nontheless. And they have similiar goals too (get the fuck out of there).

(An aside, but I really loved during the Post Mortem when Austin talked about something he’d do differently if he had the chance: asking the prisoner-PCs to get drives that weren’t about them escaping, and rather something where escaping would be a step towards that other drive. And how both Keith and Sylvi talked about the Being a prisoner and wanting to get out being very important to Leap and Millie’s characterization to the point they would’ve been played completely differently if that wasn’t the case. It was a cool discussion. That was a very good Post Mortem. Everyone should take notes for PALISADE Post Mortem questions-wise.)

And then they do get out. And they join Millenium Break. And then aside from wanting to leave prison and hating the people they work under they’re just also kind of different people with different motivations and wishes and it shows during the Kingdom Game and after… Like Millie is someone who throughout the Kingdom Game starts to believe that she can change something and help people (and not just via violence, the Strand Semaphore project is so important). And she makes more friends on Fort Icebreaker. She meets Si’dra again and that relationship is ALSO an important one (I like them I should think about them more. There is a bit where Millie describes them traveling together to set up the Strand stuff...). And she gets closer to Broun by working with them. Etc etc. People like her because She Is A Delight, and she hangs out with different people but Leap’s still there as a person that’s important to her even as they probably see each other way less due to Millenium Break business and having different missions and whatnot.

And in my head there's something special too about Leap really pushing for the attack on Vigil City to help that Equiaxed community and Millie backing him up bc 1) duh but 2) something vulnerable about it because he gets actually emotional about it (unusual for him). And do they talk about THAT ever I wonder? If they did it would've had to been before the mission because after. Well that attack is the one where Millie loses the squad she's been pretty much training & hanging around with. And like shuts herself off again except from a few people, one of which IS Leap (and then Si'dra and Broun and that's it). (Such a good Millie Moment btw. One of my favourites). But I would say that's much more of a 'let's get away from everything for a bit' kind of hangout not a 'hash out your grief' hangout. (Another aside but I am like. I mentioned this above but imagine if Leap had had a drive about this equiaxed community or something or even just the time to contact them (I think it just got lost with so much stuff going on. I know players can't follow every thread they are given and make choices but. Ooohhh well I'm just thinking about it).)

Like I really don’t think they’re the type of friends to talk about shit. There's since scene where Millie is like „Hey I'm bad at this stuff, but are we like, cool?“ that I love a lot. I love youuuu Millieeee. So they either don't do this OR it's very Rare and honestly mostly uncomfortable when they try (fun to me : D). And neither likes it all that much. So they‘re fine. It‘s fine. There’s so much going on all the time I’d rather just hang out with you and shoot the shit than get into Stuff. That type of deal.

So it's all of this BUT like... They're best friends. They DO care about each other (in whatever way they do or don't show that) & also continue to, I just think its complicated and weird, and that they grow apart a bit too! Expecially when Leap leaves and Millie stays, and then gets disillusioned with MB leadership, and then SHE leaves...

And I think. Well I'm of two minds on Leap asking Millie to come with when he leaves bc it's nice to think. Saying hey you have a place with me. Look I drew a comic about it once. I like that. But for me in the end the weird tension option wins out. And like she's a bit bitter about it. She wouldn't have come, not at the point that he left, before Valence died, before they got really fucked up in that Auspice mission and there was this kind of ideological split in the MB leadership. But he didn't offer in the first place, so it wasn't an option after she wanted to leave, either...

(There’s a line that’s like „I haven't been getting any better offers“ in PZN36 when Millie is agrees to leave with Broun et al and it made me go OH? (delighted). Like that has to be about MB generally too but. Well I can spin this. As a headcanon I do like to think maybe Millie visited Leap after leaving Oxbridge and then kind of wanted him to offer again & he didn't.) Because I think Leap is 1) practical type of guy and 2) just thoughtless sometimes and didn't ask because he thought well she's not coming we each have our own shit going on. Which makes sense then but also. Man!

(Just about Millie now) And after all that. The the whole shit in the finale. And her at the end of PARTIZAN... How much are you changed as a person after being kind of melded with the one True Divine and also being there when your rival (also a god) dissolves/comes as close to death as a divine possibly can? AND when someone you if not were expecially close to but worked with and got along and maybe admired died to help you get out? There’s a reason she left everything behind and ran and never stopped(well we don't know that. But. Well she's off somewhere doing something). Auh... Millie....

ALSO addition I don't wanna bother working in anywhere I think I'm jumping around too much already: I listened to Millies Pusher episode a while ago and Sylvi talked about Millie had trust issues briefly and I was so happy. Expecially when she & Austin were referring to Leap leaving Millie behind in the DESERT SQUIRE arc. And it's so fun because Millie clearly is mad at him for a bit after that but she just kind of chooses to get over it? (That's the scene where she approaches him like hey are we cool I mentioned earlier. And like wants assurance that they have each others backs, and she brings up Clem, etc.). That's where that belief I mentioned at the start comes from too, and it stays, since... I don't think THAT many beliefs get challenged in general, but Millie and Leap don't get there. And it's like... OK I actually still can't form a coherent sentence about this specific thing because the thing is Millie SAYS multiple times that Leap & she have each others backs and she acts like it, too (backing Leap up) and still with this in the back of her head. Millie as someone who wants better things for herself and isn't used to getting them in her life. There's something in my head I can't quite grasp & articulate. I don't know. It makes me think. It's why I wrote roughly 1900 words total here. I love her & anyways trust issues make sooo much sense for Millie in general ouhh I love to think about it. That's why Gucci et al (MB leadership) fucking up and letting the team down like that after the Auspce mission / Valence's sacrifice hits so hard and she goes back to leaving, just wanting to live a quiet life, claw your way out...

so. TL;DR

besties

it's weird and they're close in certain ways but not others and they like to hang out and relax around each other and/or cheer each other up but also dont open up to each other

I love fraying and/or complicated friendships. I think fraying and/or complicated friendships are soooo fun

Millie💙💙💙💙

a little picture : )

and lastly some fun stuff too. since you read everything else.

Millie sleeps at Leap's room sometimes either for a sleepover hangout type deal or when he's somewhere else & she just wants to sleep somewhere that's not... hm. In my mind she's sleeping in like a bunks-type situation you know like. How bedrooms for soldiers on a military vessel would probably be like. I'm not sure that's canon though. But you get the picture there it's a bit of peace and quiet

I dont know. the chost where Keith says Leap drinks any hot tea because she shows off by drinking boiling water keeps making me go show off to WHO. WHO is impressed by this and I'm not sure the answer is Millie but she'd probably at least think it's funny. So they do dumb bullshit. Like that's just canon I think they never stop throwing food but I think they get a lot better about it (not as in it's less annoying for everyone else but as in it's like a stupid party trick because they get really good at it)

re: that (showing off), they do the thing where you put your hand flat on a table and stab a knife between the fingers getting faster each time (I feel like this has to have a specific name?! Wikipedia just says knife game. alright) but to each other. And I think it goes almost very bad at least one or two times expecially because they also do this when they get drunk

Idk how good a job either does but they do wingman type stuff for each other for sure. I don't think Millie even needs it (she is a delight. And hot) but she probably also gets awkward and nervous sometimes & I'm going back to the same scene as before again sorry but after being like we're cool? she asks leap hey I'm about to talk to someone & I need you to pull me out if I start being strange. Which isn't quite the same as wingman-ing but it could get there. And I think Leap is confident that he says he doesn't need that but I also think he won't pass up a chance to by hyped up either. his ego...

[materialsscienceandengineering]

Cu 98, Be 2 (wt%), slow cooling - annealing twins

Processing Solution treated and slow cooled

[...]

Technique Reflected light microscopy

Length bar 400 μm

Further information This sample was solution treated and cooled slowly. It contains equiaxed a grains that form in order to minimise their surface energy.  Within these grains there is evidence of twinning.  Annealing twins have formed during recrystallisation.

Contributor Prof T W Clyne

Organisation Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge 

Source.

[wingcrystal]

A Brief Introduction of Sodalite

The main identification features of sodalite: dark blue, polycrystalline structure, low RI1.48, low SG2.28 floating in a heavy liquid of 2.65, turning red under the Charles color filter, magnifying and observing the distribution of visible white matter in it. The color is closer to that of lapis lazuli. The main distinguishing point is that lapis lazuli is a variety of mineral combinations, with pyrite particles and calcite distributed in star dots or lumps. Sodalite is a kind of feldspar minerals. It is a chloride-containing sodium aluminosilicate. Sodalite is similar in color to lapis lazuli, and it is also called “Canadian lapis lazuli”or “bluestone”commercially.

Introduction of sodalite

Sodalite is a kind of feldspar minerals. It is a chloride-containing sodium aluminosilicate. Sodalite includes hydroxyl sodalite, tetrazite, bluesite, etc. Different types of sodalite have different colors. The shadow of tetrazite is often seen in volcanic eruptions. Its colors are gray, brown, and blue. In addition to blue, blue ashlar also has white, gray, green, etc. It is a common gem and is produced in France, Brazil, Greenland, Russia, Myanmar, Romania and North America.

Appearance characteristics of sodalite

Sodalite is usually blue, a few are white, green, red, purple or gray. Crystals are quite rare, and are mostly produced in the form of lumps, grains or nodules in nature. Generally glassy luster, on the cleavage surface, it is greasy luster. Sodalite is a silicate mineral containing sodium, aluminum and chlorine. When nitric acid is added and silver nitrate is added, white silver chloride will be precipitated. If chlorine in the composition is replaced by sulfur, sodalite (Hackmanite) is formed. Sodalite is rare in nature, and its appearance is quite similar to that of lapis lazuli (Lazurite). Therefore, it is often used as a substitute for lapis lazuli in the gem market, but sodalite rarely contains the characteristic pyrite inclusions of lapis lazuli.

Physical Properties of Sodalite

Crystal system: equiaxed crystal system

Crystals: rhombic dodecahedron, cubic dodecahedron, octahedron

Aggregates: granular, massive, nodule

Hardness: 5.5~6

Decomposition/Fracture:{110} Decomposition: Poor to Clear; Jagged to Shell Fracture

Gloss: Glass Gloss

Color: blue, gray, white, green or red

Streaks: white or very light blue

Specific gravity: 2.14~2.30g/cm3

Others:(1) Under ultraviolet radiation, orange or orange-red fluorescence is often produced

(2) with brittleness

(3) Translucent to opaque

(4) When heated and melted, it will foam and become colorless glass

Field production of sodalite

Sodalite is relatively rare in nature. It is mainly produced in alkaline rocks rich in sodium and poor in silicon, such as nepheline syenite, trachyte and xanyan and other igneous rocks or contact metamorphic silicite, often with nepheline, leucite, feldspar, zircon and other minerals symbiosis.

Maine in the United States and Ontario in Canada produce high-quality blue sodalite. In addition, the Ural Mountains in Russia, the Vesuvius Mountains in Italy, Norway, Germany and Bolivia all produce sodalite. A bright blue almost transparent sodalite was found in Southwest Africa.

Important Origin of Sodalite

(1) Litchfield and West Gardiner in Maine in the United States, Red Hill in New Hampshire, Salem in Massachusetts, Magnet Cove in Arkansas, Cripple Creek in Colorado and other places

(2) Mt. St.-Hilaire in Quebec in Canada, Davis quarry in Ontario and quarry in eastern and Princess Bancroft, and Ice River complex in Columbia in British

(3) Greenland Kangerdluarssuk, Tunugdliarfik fjords

(4) Norway’s Langesundfjord area

(5) Scarrupata and Mte. Somma in Campania, Italy, Val di Noto in Sicily

(6) Laacher See area of Eifel, Germany

(7) Miask, Kola Penin of Ilmen Mts, Russia.

(8) Kishengar of Indian Rajputana

(9) North Korea Ham Gyong North Prov. Gil Ju Co.

(10) Tiahuanaco in Bolivia

[clementine-kesh]

ok biological beings enhanced with machine parts are awesome like we can all agree that cyborgs and whatever are cool as hell. but the reverse, mechanical beings enhanced with biological parts, is thee sickest shit ever

[anakinfruit]

science cyan

science cyan: i would study you under a microscope. i wouldn’t even ask for money

🥺promise? does this mean you think i’m interesting 💗💗

[an-unimpressed-jackalope]

The Columnar are just like: “we could look like anything but sure we’ll look like you I guess.”

[arohawke]

[image description: a screenshot from the “The Best Mecha Anime of 2020 is a Podcast” Crunchyroll aritcle, which reads “Keith: Not to be self-serving but of course the anime I want is an Equiaxed pirate anime. But what I really want isn't an anime spinoff, it's a podcast spinoff. I want the concurrent Pod Save America podcast of, like, what a bunch of power serving dudes think about politics on PARTIZAN set during the events of the show.” ]

i just wanted to point out that the new intro was foretold in the ancient scrolls (the crunchyroll interview from which they’re pulling inspiration for the road to palisade arcs)