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[wanderingnork]

Githyanki Deep Dive: What's So Wrong With Dragonlance?

An Introduction To Crystal Spheres

So the greater cosmology of D&D is...interesting. Not only are there the various planes (arranged in a tree, a wheel, a weird stack, whatever), there are also...planets. If you visit the Forgotten Realms setting, you don't just have to visit the planet of Toril: you can also visit its moon, its asteroid cloud, or one of the other seven planets in that star system. And if you just keep flying, out away from the planet into the Sea of Night, you'll eventually hit...a wall. An endless curving wall of impenetrable, indestructible dark ceramic, like a shell.

That's when you'll realize that those beautiful stars you can see from the surface of Toril are actually innumerable portals to the Plane of Radiance or the Plane of Fire. If you can find a portal that doesn't go to one of those planes, or if you've got the right teleportation magic, you can cross beyond the sphere, out of Wildspace and into the universe beyond. Which is...an infinite rainbow ocean of "phlogiston" through which spelljamming ships can sail between the crystal spheres.

Because there are a LOT of crystal spheres. Essentially, in meta terms, any unique D&D campaign setting (with the direct exception of the Eberron campaign setting) has a crystal sphere of its own, containing JUST its own sun and local planet group. The crystal sphere containing the Dark Sun campaign setting, Athas, is completely inaccessible. Even Earth, in this cosmology, has its crystal sphere!

Please just hit pause right here and go read the "Earth" page on the Forgotten Realms wiki.

ANYWAY.

The "big three" of the crystal spheres are Realmspace, Greyspace, and Krynnspace. Realmspace is familiar to us all as the default setting of much of 5th Edition D&D and Baldur's Gate 3. Greyspace is the home of the Greyhawk campaign setting, one of the earliest settings and the default campaign setting to edition 3.5 D&D. Krynnspace is home to the Dragonlance campaign setting...and it's something of an oddball here.

You see, although each crystal sphere runs by its own rules, they usually share some commonalities. Spacefaring species can generally be found in any crystal sphere, as long as the particular sphere will sustain them. You might have a run-in with neogi ships, trade with the Arcane, or seek passage with a ship of adventurers in any crystal sphere at all. And since the githyanki have full access to spelljamming ships, you will certainly encounter them at some point or another. Unless you go to Krynnspace.

There, you won't find any githyanki at all.

What's So Special About Krynnspace?

Before I get going, please know that just about everything I'm going to discuss here comes from SJR-7, "Krynnspace," which is the AD&D 2nd Edition Spelljammer supplement on the subject. It's the most complete single reference on the subject (the Krynnspace article on the Spelljammer Wiki cites it more than any other single source).

For one thing, although virtually all crystal spheres are spheres, Krynnspace is like...flat. Pancake, albeit a giant pancake. So that's weird right out of the gate. Krynnspace is also colder than any other sphere, with its wildspace full of clouds of freezing vapor that can kill an unprotected traveler in an instant and can't be scried through, even by deities. Terrifying.

Unlike Realmspace, Greyspace, and other major crystal spheres, Krynnspace is relatively empty of wildspace societies. The sun has efreets and "helians." The burning planet Sirion has efreets and azers. The barren planet Reorx is mined and explored by dwarves, gnomes (from Krynn and beyond), and mind flayers (who we'll come back to in a hot minute). Chislev, a planetwide rainforest, is home to a limited amount of mortal races and whole lot of dragons. Zivilyn is even more scarcely populated, and only by shipwrecked travelers and marooned pirate victims. A cluster of asteroids hosts giff, space giants, gnomes, and others. Krynn, the largest, most hospitable, and most populated world, absolutely thrives with all sorts of life, including some mortal species completely unique to the cosmos...though it has only two ports of call for spelljamming travelers.

A tiny company of knights patrols Krynnspace, a few merchant vessels hop from planet to planet, and scattered pirate ships prowl the system. But that's it. Only a tiny fraction of Krynn natives are even aware of life on other planets and travel throughout the system is virtually nonexistent. Stories of Krynn and its heroes have gotten out to other spheres, but stories from other spheres have not generally gotten into this one.

In meta terms, this is easy to explain: the creators of Dragonlance were not interested in allowing spelljamming into their world. It just doesn't fit with the stories Dragonlance is meant to tell or the feeling of the world of Krynn. Dragonlance is a setting of knightly orders and great chivalric quests, not space pirates and journeys of millions of miles between planets. Minimizing those elements preserves the setting as its creators intended.

But...within the setting, what gives? Why the hell wouldn't Krynn, a world rich in resources and art and people, full of knights who want nothing more than to quest and would jump at the chance to go to the stars, be linked into the rest of the spelljamming world? Even if the other planets in the system are inhospitable, why aren't spelljammers regularly reaching out into the rest of the cosmos?

I can't answer those questions in this post. But I can answer this one: why exactly don't the githyanki try to take advantage of Krynn the way they do every other planet they can get their hands on?

Mind Games

Well...there's more meta reason for this, actually. In the 3rd Edition "Bestiary of Krynn, Revised," there's a whole table of iconic D&D monsters who are explicitly stated not to exist in the Dragonlance setting. Krynn doesn't play host to orcs, halflings, werewolves, drow, or even the great tarrasque. The table informs us that these creatures simply don't fit into the setting as written, and they're completely correct in that.

Halflings are replaced with the relatively similar kender. Adding drow (and Lolth) to the world of Krynn would destabilize the existing complex elven politics--and besides, there's no Underdark in Krynn unless a DM adds one! The githyanki and githzerai, with their distinctly extraplanar flavor and violent tendencies, would just not fit into the knights-and-dragons style of the setting.

One notable strange point on the table is mind flayers. Despite 2nd Edition Spelljammer allowing mind flayers to colonize the planet Reorx, this newer source states very plainly that mind flayers do not exist in the setting as written. Allowance is made for the Yaggol (p. 116-117), a group of squid-headed humanoids who came "from Beyond" but lost their innate mystic powers and civilization long ago. They're now just another monstrous threat in the wilderness, albeit a powerful one with a penchant for eating brains with their tentacles.

So there are just some creatures that don't fit the setting, end of story. And...we could just leave it at that. But that's not interesting, especially when there are two very powerful in-game reasons why the githyanki would want to stay far the fuck away from Krynnspace.

First, and most frightening on a personal level to a githyanki, is the fact that the planet of Krynn is actively hostile to psionics.

From the 2nd Edition "Unsung Heroes" Dragonlance supplement comes a single explanatory paragraph on page 1. The planet of Krynn does not produce any native psionicists. Visitors from other places never stay long because "if they stay on Krynn more than one month per level, their psionic abilities disappear permanently." Emphasis mine.

Doing the math, no githyanki ever gets far beyond 11th or 12th level before Vlaakith calls them home to consume their soul. Your average githyanki warrior would have less than a year on Krynn before their innate psionic ability vanished for good.

Sure, the githyanki could visit Krynnspace. But there's only really one planet worth their time--Krynn. Due to living primarily on the Astral Plane, the githyanki aren't looking for resources in terms of food or other perishables, so it doesn't matter how fertile the world of Krynn may be. There's no way for them to establish any meaningful permanent base there. They'd have to cycle people in and out of a stronghold constantly. No creche could be established. The babies would hatch without psionics!

For the icing on the cake, they have a living example of just what happens to a powerful psionic species that stays too long on Krynn. All they have to do is look at the Yaggol, the remnants of their most ancient enemies, to know the consequences of trying to stick around on Krynn.

Tiamat and Takhisis

The second reason to stay out of Krynnspace is of more concern to the society as a whole. The githyanki have several major weapons in to bring to bear when they go out into the cosmos. Their silver swords, their psionics, and their pact with Tiamat and the red dragons. Silver swords would function just fine on Krynn regardless of the issue of psionics, and let's assume that some very clever githyanki mages worked out how to protect their psionics when planetside. Great! Now they can come and go as they please!

Except that they still wouldn't, because the second a githyanki crosses into Krynnspace, the pact with Tiamat stops working.

And here we circle back to the cosmology of the wider D&D universe and the way the crystal spheres function. See, each crystal sphere is a universe unto itself. Not only does it have its own basic rules, it also plays host to its own pantheon of deities. The gods of Greyspace, Realmspace, and Krynnspace hold dominion only over what is within their very literal sphere.

Deities, while they can access other spheres, have their power limited to their own specific spheres. They can't harm deities from another crystal sphere or their worshipers. No matter how much Erythnul, god of slaughter in Greyhawk, might wish to wreak carnage on Faerûn, he's bound by an ancient compact to stay in his own sphere. And no matter how much Torm, god of justice in Faerûn, might like to see Erythnul brought down, he has to leave that fight to the gods of good in Greyhawk.

Most importantly to this discussion, different aspects of the same deity, who might be worshiped in different spheres, are limited in the same way. Tiamat is not a deity in Krynn. Takhisis, a similar five-headed evil dragon goddess, is one of the major divine players in the setting. According to the most recent source, they are aspects of the same being (Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, 43). But that doesn't change the fact that Tiamat's power stops at the edge of Krynnspace.

Takhisis may be an aspect of Tiamat, but the deal Tiamat made with the githyanki has no binding power over Takhisis. Nor does it have any power over the red dragons of Krynn. If a githyanki war party crossed into Krynnspace, they would have no backup from their red dragon allies. Speculatively, they might even face hostility from native red dragons, who would be unlikely to appreciate such familiar behavior.

Would Takhisis accept a similar pact if the githyanki tried to make it? Maybe. It could be advantageous to her. But the pact with Tiamat was made by selling the soul of Gith herself and every githyanki ruler who came after. What do the githyanki have to offer of that magnitude now? And what would be the purpose of taking such a risk for just one planet in one crystal sphere when there are so many other worlds they could visit?

[btmc-official]

< L2 Garmr: So, you guys are mercs. Fly where you want, shoot who you get paid to shoot, right?

I gotta imagine people call for all kinds of work. Let me ask you this: was there ever a job that really worried you, made you wonder if it was worth the pay? >

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<Spire> “Ah, hello Garmr! Luna Wing, right? I've seen you all around too. Seems like a fun band of people! And uh, that's.. a bit of a loaded question for most of us, to be honest with you, Garmr. Not that any of us won't be answering, mind you."

<Spire> "I think one of the first ones that really gave us all pause was.. It was around the time I joined the company. We.. got what appeared to be a normal contract. Offered us I think it was.. 2 million manna? Yeah, sounds about right. Bit unusual for a merc company just starting out, but not too out of the ordinary. We're a ragtag crew, but we're all skilled. Sometimes it helps to keep things quiet too."

<Spire> "..Anyways. Details around the job were murky, to say the least. Not uncommon in this line of work, but certainly not preferred. Usually, we like to have some specifics as to what exactly we'll be doing, who we'll be targeting or fighting, etcetera etcetera. This job was.. well, damn near blank, to put it lightly. Bit suspicious too."

<Spire> "If I recall, the exact request was something along the lines of "Some homunculi escaped from our facilities. Please recapture them and bring them to us." Not a normal request by any means, but it's greyspace. We were running low on funds too. Flashflood only can do so much for us, after all."

<Spire> "So anyways, we took the job. Went on over to the planet, dropped in, met the contractors, blah blah blah. You get the gist, who cares. Anyways, when we went out to go find the homunculi.."

<Spire> "..They weren't. I mean.. they weren't homunculi. Turns out they were flashclones. Mass produced ones too. They were damn near scared shitless of us, considering we were in our mechs at the time.. The planet had hostile megafauna running around, so we couldn't just go in our hardsuits."

<Spire> "Back to the clones though. When we finally managed to get them to calm down.. which took a while.. There were only three of us: me, Etiquette, and Corpseflower. Only 3 of us, and they held us at damn spear point from the moment we left our mechs, all the way until we left. Makes you wonder what terrified them so bad, huh?"

<Spire> "It was the people who hired us. They were treating them worse than SSC, and that's saying something. Selling people? No, they were trying to turn people into damn computers! Not that they'd succeeded at all, of course. I'm still wondering to this day how the hell RA didn't come and annihilate them and us with.."

<Spire> "..Anyway. We.. weren't sure what to do, at first. Corpseflower, or Hyacinth, as I know her.. she wasn't doing too great herself. She's a flashclone too, after all. She found herself in a pretty similar situation to this group, before she'd managed to get out. I'm not one to pry, but I could tell that she's got a lot of baggage from that time."

<Spire> "So she was basically out of the equation, considering her trauma response to the situation.. That left me and Etiquette. An ex-soldier for a black books company, and a scientist who somehow became a Lancer. What could go wrong?"

<Spire> "..We decided that we wouldn't bring the clones back to our employers at the time. Instead, we'd help them. We'd figured out from the details of the contract that there were microchips in the neck of each clone; tracking chips or something. Pretty good ones too, being able to scan from a whole damn continent away. But there was a caveat to exploit. Seemed suspiciously convenient too; the chips only sent a signal once every 12 hours."

<Spire> "I'm sure you can guess what we did. Ripped the chips out before the next signal came along, gave them supplies, sent them to a settlement some distance away where they could hopefully get better help. Gave them a safe route too.."

<Spire> "From there, we went back to the company who employed us. Told them that we found the 'homunculi', but they'd been ripped apart by megafauna by the time we got there. They seemed suspicious, but luckily Hyacinth has some skill with editing videos.. So we were able to show them the views from our mech chassis. By some miracle, that seemed to convince them."

<Spire> "So we got paid, and screwed off as quickly as we could. Not the most heroic thing to do, sure.. But that was a situation that was a bit much for us. There's been worse, mind you; by all means, there's been much, much worse jobs.. But that one just hit different. Anyways.."

“Black Torrent Mercenary Company, signing off.”

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[coffinsister]

what do you like about shadaria? (asking as a person who's never meaningfully played a sonic game before)

Hiii hellooo I'm so sorry I totally forgot to reply to this when I got it :(

But thank u for your question it's because I like it when the edgy hedgehog is happy jwkwkwk

But beyond that I just like the sort of greyspace relationship they occupy they are not confirmed To be siblings anywhere on sonic media really they are not confirmed to be lovers either

They have a very special unique relationship that only they could have only Maria could have been there to see Shadow grow up in the lab only Shadow could have been there for Maria while her illness was developing as a lonely child mostly stuck in a lab

Maria is the big defining factor on Shadow's past and the one shining light on his whole traumatic edgelord backstory

Plus they got a lot of cute moments in the mangas and in the newest movie

This is btw what I like about incest ships as well when a relationship is so important and it occupies so many roles in the characters lives that it can't just be said they are siblings or lovers or mentor and mentee but instead they are almost each other's whole world, which in turn turns into a lot of codependent relationships lol :p

[cmishwrites]

rereading my FO4 fanfics, realizing I really suck at finishing them >.<.

that said, the one I really want to throw at the greyspace is... well complicated. Do I post as I wrote it, with the long intro that sets things up or... And the themes in some of this is a bit.. well it could def be called triggery. I'm so out of the loop. is anyone even activly sharing falllout fanfic anymore? Not that it matters honestly but still. I hate this wishy-washy me. It's been too long since I've shared my writing in any capacity. then there's the whole... I gotta finish the damn thing too... ANYWAYS... *goes back to tidying up a not as messy as I thought WIP*

Edited to add: I wish my drawing skills were better, one little scene in that fanfic I would love to draw (maxson getting teased about a hickey, I mean come on that would be epic) but alas, I've neglected my drawing skills and I think even stick figures might be beyond my abilities atm. XD

[blackwell-academys-airdrop]

12, 18 and 19 for the ask game

12. the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them: Oh there are several I could name. I'd probably go with Brooke, though. She's so petty! She's funny to me :3

18. it's absolutely criminal that the fandom has been sleeping on... I reblogged a post about this a little while ago, but Nathan with powers. Heck, everyone with powers! (That's sort of what my Greyspace AU is gonna be like :3 ) Also, I really think people should do more crossovers with Until Dawn. They're very similar games in a lot of little ways.

19. you're mad/ashamed/horrified you actually kind of like... I think the Rachel/Frank dynamic is really interesting. Of course, it's a hideously unhealthy relationship, is illegal, has a serious power imbalance, and may very well have been coerced on Rachel's part. I'd like to see an AU where the sexy stuff gets extracted and instead, he's a big brother figure to her, or, heck, if Frank, Sera, and Rachel become kind of an offbeat little family of choice. (Also, I love David as a character, but I'm not ashamed of that.)

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

So. It's not specific strategies or anything (legally and ethically I **cannot**)

But I've always found that understanding not just the whats (so wonderfully reflected above in the comic) but also the whys/hows can help me cope better over all.

So let me see if I can take each of these one at a time.

Habits and patterns not sticking tends to stem from a few places: all or nothing thinking/perfectionism, executive dysfunction around working memory and task breakdown/management, and lack of internal bio-chemical reward responses at task initiation, just prior to task completion, and following task completion.

Some examples of how this can look:

All or nothing thinking says that if I can't "make a real dent" in a task, there's no point wasting my vanishingly rare energy and functioning on it, and that if I fall off of "keeping up on maintenance" then my routine is over rather than having been interruped, and lacking the greyspace of thought to "remember-believe" that I can return to the routine or even plan ahead for how to deal with interruptions and intermittent roadblocks as part of my routine. It also prevents me from being able to prioritize tasks in my brain, which is part of why tasks always seem to expand when I try to interact with them, leading me to get distracted or overwhelmed or otherwise wander off from my needs. And the reason my energy and functioning is so vanishingly rare, is that my brain is "understimulated" without the necessary function of reward responses, and my autonomic system is "overstimulated" without the ability to consistently regulate environmental, emotional, and social stressors.

Things that help are often things that help me intentionally mamage stressors and regulate my nervous system, as well as ways of introducing reward responses I do experience into my "task work" process to make up for the absence of them organically (part of this for me is medication, part is coping strategy, part is "grazing" food rather than eating separate sit down meals, etc). And what always always matters is that I take shame out of how I talk to and about myself. This feels silly at first, it really does. You feel ridiculous doing it, and then you kinda start shittalking the process and yourself and how you experience it and then one day you kinda look at that way you have of talking to yourself and realize it. It just sucks all the good out of your life. And you start to feel more comfortable with the new ways of talking to yourself. And you start to notice all the little shames that pile up throughout the day and how scary it is that letting go of that shame will mean things never get done but then somehow they do. And you realize the shame made it harder. Makes everything harder. Letting it go doesn't end mistakes or mishaps sure, but they somehow **genuinely** matter less? Not just to you, but in their impact and damage on your life.

Weirdly, it's not the understimulation (exactly) that causes dissatisfaction and mental/emotional restlessness! It's the autonomic hyperactivity (this is why we see similar expressions in our PTSD cousins). Calming our autonomic system can actually increase our overall satisfaction with life, hobbies, relationships, etc. It's something to do with how our body and brain are activated to direct and prioritize bodily resources when our nervous system dysregulates (the "hyperactive" in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is referring to autonomic hyperactivity that causes chronic or irregular autonomic dysregulation - often experienced in ADHD expressions as intense emotional escalations that are hard to "come down from" and/or general psychological/physiological symptoms resulting from chronic stress). Folks with chronically hyperactive autonomic systems are prone to needing activity to regulate their autonomic system, rather than stillness or rest (although of course everyone needs a little of both, it's more a ratio thing I think) and so while we often think of "destressing" as "resting", that can actually be **stressing** for us instead. I do a lot of puttering around outside in the yard doing garden or animal stuff as "rest" or like fidget crafts like finger weaving or idle tap games while I listen to music or watch a show. The expression and release of autonomic hyperactivity is super soothing, and generally lets me feel more consistently relaxed. I do a lot of fun and weird diaphraghmatic breathing exercises (polyvagal approaches to autonomic regulation), a lot of low impact- movement based activities, and create "planned unstructured time" each day to just sort of putter around and follow my brain like a dog chasing a bone dangling in front of its face by a stick stuck in its own collar. I always do weird stuff. Not like. Interesting weird. Just weird. But it helps!

Building up skills around the general vibe of "this too shall pass, and here's how i can be kind to myself in the meantime" tends to be really valuable to those rejection sensitivity moments. I've got some great structured journal prompts I worked out with a therapist's help to "self reflect" on what feelings or needs are being communicated via the rejection experience, a self care plan to get through the parts I have less control/influence over and a processing/coping plan to get through the parts I can be more proactive about. I do a lot of checking in with my body and brain (I set timers/alarms for this) and use a lot of visual thought mapping and prompting in my environment (e.g. task step lists for cleaning a room pre-written on a whiteboard in that room, shared calendars, etc) to reduce the demand of routine/cyclical tasks on my executive functioning.

I have a reward jar!

The jar gets filled over time by routine task completion on a task by task basis, and when it's full, I get to buy new plants :)

It's a system I learned while training dogs (I know I know) and developing a "no failure" system of training for them. I realized I needed to change my own concept of/relationship to failure states. I really have a hard time coping with failure. And like. That'll probably always be true. But I can remove failure states from my life until they're rarer to encounter, so that overtime my sensitivity to it can scale down from lack of repeat trigger, and my coping skills for bleedthrough failure state emotional care and response can be more consistently effective.

One of the ways I do this is that I keep an extended documentation of things I "need to do" but I only allow myself to keep a max of 3 of them on my mind at once. And once I have interacted with one of these "priorities" to the extent of my comfort both physical and psychological, I put the task's respective reward marker in the jar. Tasks I struggle with the most get the biggest reward markers that take up the most space in the jar while the tasks I am more currently more consistent with get the smaller reward markers (think a silver dollar versus a dime).

I like getting my lil thing. I like how colorful my jar is. I like taking my little $10 allowance to the plant store like an excited 9yr old who has only just heard of allowances. I like having a plant to putter around and relax with. All positives in my book. Gotta find your own positives and way of removing failure states as an option.

It's not easy. And it's more of a process than a skillset? Because my relationship with myself and my environment is always changing, which means the way I need support in that environment is always changing even if the base kind of support needed doesn't. So I'm constantly adjusting and modulating and just. I dunno being really intentional about everything all the time. And it can suck sometimes, but other times its really really good, and mostly I'm just. Doing okay. Which is pretty cool :)

Anyway. I dunno if that's closure really, but I think it's worth more of us making our way through life acknowledging our experiences in ways that are mechanical and constructive when we can, rather than always hanging out in the self-deprecating space I think aot of us are prone to occupying due to our battles with shame. It's like building muscle memory. The more you do it, the easier and more reflexive it becomes.

‪The incorrect and negative beliefs we can get from years of negative feedback not knowing we have ADHD or how it affects our lives. While not everything is solely caused by ADHD, it can affect us and our comorbidities in many, many ways. Good news is, treating ADHD can do wonders for Anxiety and Depression!

[0m3g4f15h1ng]

to lead u into the union, to introduce u to the greyspace, to drag u into alignment with all and not some, to bring ur mentality together, to war and then to stalemate.

[yight-lagami-xx06]

📍 greyspace coffee

[greyplainsttrpg]

I actually have something very like that.

In theoretical comic that I'm writing, Greyspace, the Characters take a magic sword from a guy. The sword is sentient and powerful, but it's magic is operated through money. You have to feed it money to use its basic magic power. You can feed it more money to unlock more power, but then it powers down to its base level and requires more money than before to maintain operating at all. Now, the original owner, an independent adventurer, is in extreme debt. So he gives it to the party under the premise that they can hopefully treat it.

The sword is named Sir Swordy McSword, and it is a very smug, sentient weapon. It also does indeed has an addiction to money. So the party takes the sword into rehab. In the process, it ends up killing several nurses while going through withdrawals, so they have to tie it down, but the straps aren't meant for swords, so he just cuts himself out. Because it's a powerful magic sword, it can also cut through metal that they tried as well.

The only thing that works is several therapy sessions with a councilor. Swordy accepts that, in order to get better, it has to accept that it will lose its sentience, and that's okay for itself and its friends. The party gets swordy back as it finishes its rehab, now an insert, normal sword. They keep the sword for the rest of the comic.

It comes up several times how it would be really convenient if they could use the sword that can cut through steel, but they respect Swordy's progress so they do not wake it up.

Concept: cursed blade rehabilitation center. Destroying a sentient weapon is expensive and highly unethical, so adventurers bring them to the center where highly trained staff can care for them and eventually find them forever homes. It turns out most cursed weapons are products of trauma and are not strictly evil themselves. Some blades turn out to be fiercely protective companions. Others don't even want to be weapons at all, finding joy in simple work like blacksmithing or farming. Most blades just need to be loved.

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[ipsl0cs]

Enoch Yochai.

Interview by: Jesus Floratine

It’s a rare privilege to be able to interview a former GALSIM worker, or one of the few publicly known consultants for SSC. For them to also be an authority on liturgicode and ethical cloning, on greyspace politics and military deescalation, to possess an honourary Karrakin title… Well, there’s only one person to have done all that. But when I bring up any of these life-defining roles, he brushes it aside.

Enoch Yochai: I look back when I need to focus on the future. Every task, every job I have performed is a piece in a greater mechanism: and my mind doesn’t dwell on the details of the last gear, but on the motions the complete structure will perform.

He sits with quiet- no, silent dignity. Asking him a question feels like asking a magic mirror; you’re both looking straight at yourself, and at the exact truth you want to see. His legendary charisma evident in that, I suppose. In how it feels easier to be unknowing around him, because he’ll probably know, and will definitely set you right with more knowledge than before. Enamoured as I was, you’ll have to excuse me yet another question regarding his legendary reputation.

Floratine: People have called you a ‘new Neo-Anthropocene man’. Your thoughts on this?

Yochai: I prefer the simpler title of ‘polymath.’ Especially given all of the unsavoury Sec-Com elements that people don’t seem to think about nearly enough when we consider the Neo-Anthropocene. Like the renaissance long before it, those times had a background of blood: as a canvas, both behind and part of all the art and knowledge we enjoy from it. No, no… I may be getting on but I am no relic from a better past than there ever was.

I simply like to dabble, is all.

F: For someone who is ‘getting on’, you’re in remarkably fine form. But on the subject of your dabbling, would you tell us more about the new venture that’s shaken all public perception?

That laugh of his is easy and welcoming; for someone cutting such an impressive figure and in such a sharp suit, no less. (I must have seen ten times the socialites in bright white suits since he made such a name for himself in them- though the light greys he has migrated to compliment his true silver hair well indeed.) Even with all those corners and immaculate lines, that seem so coldly imposing on so many of our more detached officials, he never seems anything less than a person- if anything, he often seems more than one. Which is why that new career change of his is so odd.

For those reading this article who are out of time as to this latest development; well, I may as well let the man himself introduce you to his first, and rather odd, large-scale management role.

Y: Cabal-A Computing and Combat Contractors. A service melding the force and agility of a modern, frame-based small-team private military group, with the resources and knowledge of galaxy-class technological professionals. Two kinds of groups working in tandem to cover the weaknesses of the other, and to simultaneously provide the two most critical services commonly needed in the longer arms of our galaxy.

F: The longer arms, you say? So this group, Cabal-

Y: CA-3C, if you wish to keep it succinct.

F: Thank you; CA-3C will be operating in the long rim, then? Us core system residents will be missing you!

Y: I will admit that the long rim in particular is not an area of space I am particularly involved in, now or in the near future- different directions have piqued more of my interest. And I will admit that there is a lot I will miss in the indeterminate future about our Union’s core worlds.

But equally, I cannot preach travel enough to any non-cosmopolitans reading. For as much rougher as the edges of the diaspora may be, it’s only through roughness that we can smooth out all the problems that plague us still. We don’t begrudge sandpaper its coarse grain.

I have found that every problem I have solved, the solution has been found where there was still adversity. It is by solving other problems that we better understand our own- an understanding that we can take in cycles, to solve other matters once again. All the problems that remain to be solved, and the infinite approaches to them; that has always made the diaspora, dare I say it, the cradle of modern personhood and philosophy.

F: A bold statement, indeed! To say that our core worlds owe much of their culture and progress to those on the fringes of our galactic hub- well, we see it often, don’t we?

Y: Something like that. Yes.

F: Well, one last question then, that I’m sure people have been intensely curious about; I certainly have. The old rumours that you were the pilot participating in the grand Pankrati tournament of 4901, that you were the one competing under the callsign “Keter”… They’ve been resurfacing given your move into mercenary work, so regardless of that competition-

Y: Which I almost won.

I confess, my sputtering here made for a fair pause in the interview- so I apologise for any candidness lost as a consequence.

But yes, it is true! For any who doubt the veracity of this, I can attest to seeing the actual registration forms myself- and the KBPL have announced they too will be releasing official confirmation, simultaneously with the publication of this piece.

Y: It’s actually a common mistake, that my callsign was Keter. It was, and still is, the name I give that frame. When I participated in the tournament, I did so under no callsign at all.

But, no, to answer the question I am sure you intended to pose, I myself will not be a combatant. Mercenary work is beyond my skillset as little more than a hobbyist of a spectacle fighter. But never let it be said that I lead a group without having walked at least half a mile in their shoes. Nothing worse than a bureaucrat who knows nothing of reality on the ground barking orders. I stand by that mow more than ever.

F: Well, I’m certain only the best of the best will be working for you, and furthering whatever noble endeavours your group decides to aid.

Y: I already have much of a team assembled. And not to disparage any contemporaries of mine in any field, but there is often a better option than the best in a field- and that is the one who doesn’t fit in it.

I’ve said this about every project, but I plan on changing everything we know, that I can.

F: You haven’t disappointed us yet!

Y: Thank you kindly.

As I see it, the people who couldn’t possibly join any group but mine are surely the ones that will exact that change- the ones who aren’t content with perfect motions in a complete world.

I don’t need a perfect algorithm, no. I have that handled. We need enough people, who are perfectly people. Ones who can’t help but push us all into the future.

That’s what we need. It’s what I need.

And it’s what I’m going to have.

[taekookfests]

inbloom fest - fic reveals season 2

you're the train (i'm tied to the track) by greyspace [link] 36.1k Words | Completed | Teen and Up

There are two sides to every story.

But when it comes to Kim Taehyung, every story is a never-ending tale.

(Or, Taehyung’s facets shine brightly and Jeongguk falls in love with every single one of them.)

I Can Be Your Hero, Baby by laykive (littleheichou) [link] 28.7k Words | Completed | Mature

Jungkook makes a promise to Taehyung when they’re still in elementary school, but, for the record, when he'd made that promise he hadn't expected Taehyung to be putting himself in danger.

Roses on the floor by ryuks [link] 27.7k Words | Completed | Explicit

High fashion model Taehyung despises the industry that made him a household name. During an event he rather not be at, He happens to meet Upcoming photographer, Jeon Jeongguk. A friend of Jimin’s and a friend Taehyung wants to make.

He might not believe in love at first sight, but given how good Jeongguk fills out a suit, Taehyung definitely believes in lust at first sight.

It Must Have Been Love by Carle [link] 25.6k Words | Completed | Mature

Jungkook and Taehyung were soulmates; bond unbreakable and hearts intertwined. That was until Jungkook chose his dream over their love.

Or the one where Jungkook leaves Taehyung behind to become an idol, but karma is a bitch, you know?

Hither by Khrismierra (AmayaInMyTummy) [link] 20.7k Words | Completed | Teen and Up

"I think, yeah," Jeongguk mumbles, throwing back a wider smile towards Taehyung which the older immediately mirrors. "You ready, hyung?"

"Maybe," Taehyung replies, coy smile present in his face. "Let's start, shall we?" "Anything you want to see specifically, hyung?"

"Honestly?" "Honestly." "Just you, Guk," Taehyung says. "Just you."

Albeit awkwardly, Jeongguk takes that information smiling and lets himself giggle in excitement with the thought of finally shooting outdoors. He's with Taehyung and so, he would be alright. He would do alright, just like Taehyung has always told him whenever he asks how he did after every shoot.

all i want is to fly (with you) by wolfsbanez [link] 20.4k Words | Completed | Teen and Up

Taehyung mistakes comfort for happiness and Jeongguk comes into his life to prove him wrong.

(Or, Taehyung has a strict routine he follows every single day until a new bartender called Jeongguk shows up and manages to turn his life around.)

Bed For Two by orphan_account [link] 18.7k Words | Completed | Explicit

one innocent cuddle, that's all it took.

(or the one in where two neighbors are more afraid of telling each other about their preferences more than anything.)

Aliens! Aliens? or, “Close Encounters of the Nerd Kind” by bambambams (phanjessmagoria) [link] 17.3k Words | Completed | Explicit

Jungkook knows the truth is out there. It's just too bad his best friend Jimin is only humoring him.

Meeting Taehyung (and Yoongi, another unfortunate skeptic) at an alien convention is a lucky turn of events, a twist of fate that ends with a road trip to one of the most famous sites of extraterrestrial activity and, maybe if they're lucky, some probing.

(Which all participants are totally and completely up for.)

chaotic chances by AWriterIAm [link] 17.2k Words | Completed | Mature

His morning starts a little something like this -

unknown [08:03] Are you fuckin namjoon??

Jungkook stares at it. And stares at it some more until the words make a little bit more sense because who the fuck is this texting him at ass o’clock asking about his tall, dimply omega?

jungkook [08:08] maybe

jungkook [08:08] who got something to say about it ?

Jungkook then tosses on a black shirt underneath a black hoodie and black sweats with a pair of specs. Unbothered that his hair is still wet, he throws a cap over top and is ready to head for the door.

He’s on time, which is dope. What isn’t dope is the notification that illuminates his screen.

unknown [08:10] Me

unknown [08:10] His alpha

Sea Salt Remedy by againstthewind [link] 17.1k Words | Completed | Explicit

Jeongguk couldn’t have known that there were shapeshifters inhabiting the sea.

Otherwise he wouldn’t have bawled into its waters and unwittingly summoned a selkie.

Cognition by ohsehunseoul [link] 15.8k Words | Completed | Mature

Jeon Jeongguk's job as a psychiatrist is his life. Day in and day out, he prescribes medications most people can't pronounce and listens to the problems his patients face. It wasn't the career path he wanted to go down, but he loved it nevertheless. One night, a stranger knocks on his door, calling himself Kim Taehyung. He asks for one night of freedom from his abusive household and Jeongguk obliges. The troubled newcomer is somehow breaking down the walls the doctor build around himself, all while trying to heal his own wounds.

The Roses (I Laid on Your Grave) by rosefaerie [link] 15.5k Words | Completed | Mature

This is a story of love. This is a story of life. It is a light reading. But, no one said it would be a happy one.

This is a story of how Jungkook and Taehyung got their tattoos. It is a story of how two boys loved each other until the sun dies. It is a story of how a boy ended up laying a rose on his lover’s grave.

Spring Sonata No. 3 by TwentyThreeThirteen [link] 15.2k Words | Completed | Teen and Up

It hit him like the first sun ray in the morning, a brand new day.

After hearing the first note played on his saxophone that evening of the Spring Festival, he knows it has hit him hard.

Jeon Jeongguk -drummer of the ascending local band "Smoke and Mirrors"- has a crush on the world famous saxophone star, Kim Taehyung who shares his passion for music and -not-so-subtly- has been trying to hit on him since they first met. Now they meet again after enrolling in a piano class.

fate and everything in between by cheeks [link] 11.9k Words | Completed | Teen and Up

Playing a prank on your soulmates who have been trying to play matchmaker is probably not the best of ideas. Or –

two pieces of the same puzzle by namidahime [link] 11.9k Words | Completed | Explicit

Taehyung spends most of his life trying to fit himself into societies expectations of how an alpha is supposed to be.

At least till Jeongguk decides to turn his world upside down.

or: an au with alpha Taehyung and omega Jeongguk but Taehyung is more submissive and Jeongguk is more dominant.

March 31st by Carle [link] 11.3k Words | Completed | Mature

It’s when you wake up in the future and find yourself craving it so bad only the present won’t let you have it, so you wake up in the past and fix everything.

Or the one where Taehyung goes back in time on a specific day in an attempt to fix a mistake.

don't bother knocking by problembehaftet [link] 10k Words | Completed | Explicit

Taehyung can't sleep without hugging something, but when he's especially anxious his pillows aren’t quite enough. On those occasions Taehyung bribes his very cute neighbour Jeongguk to let him sleep in his bed and use him as a body pillow.

And Jeongguk is totally fine with that. The only problem is that he's pretty sure Taehyung thinks he's straight and he has no idea how to tell him that he's most definitely not. He's gay, so very gay and all the platonic cuddling and non-dates are slowly killing him on the inside.

the crimson rays are ruby bright by cryptonomica [link] 7.5k Words | Completed | General Audiences

In which Jeongguk accidentally cuts his red string of fate while sewing, and Taehyung has to figure out why his red string is now stitched into a toy tiger.

Aerial Infatuation by guksboots [link] 6.2k Words | Completed | Mature

Jeongguk and Taehyung are rivals at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Or are they?

i'm not that lonely to love you by meanho [link] 5.1k Words | Completed | General Audiences

They say actions speak louder than words; Taehyung's counting on it.

Do it Deeper, do it More by Sharleena (Restricted) [link] 5.1k Words | Completed | Explicit

"Is this a joke?" he asks. Jimin shrugs and puts the mug down. "Does it seem like a joke to you?" "No, but I'm kinda hoping it is." "It's not a joke." This is just slightly—how to say it? Fucked up. "Hyung," Jungkook begins saying. "Did you just offer me a flier that allows me to have a free session with a prostate masseur?"

PROMPT: Jungkook going for a sensual prostate massage - excuse him he hasn't gotten laid in months - and there he meets Taehyung, his hot masseur.

Love and Parenthood by eddiemarey [link] 4.8k Words | Completed | Mature

Jeon Jungkook and Kim Taehyung's pregnancy and parenthood adventures.

That, and how they realized their friends are geniuses.

Make up room by TheNameIsAlec [link] 1.9k Words | Completed | General Audiences

Jungkook is a makeup artist who just started to work with idol Taehyung.

japanese denim by shejustwantstowrite [link] 1.2k Words | Completed | Teen and Up

But Taehyung wants Jungkook to stay for a little while longer.

(A long, long while would work, too.)

(a huge thanks to Jane for helping me compile all these fics!)

[rounderhouse]

sometimes the idea of 'jailbreaking' your body is very literal. augmentation technology is DRM-protected, and megacorps skulk through this legal greyspace with impunity. they may not be able to throw you in prison for making modifications to your augments, but they can remotely disable your limbs, cut your eyesight from a service center hundreds of miles away. your body becomes your prison, weighed down by dozens of pounds of metal that no longer obey you as their master. for those with neural implants, the sudden loss of function can cause a 'backsplash', leaving the mind in a vegetative state indefinitely.

a team of pro-bono lawyers have a hearing next month to argue these actions qualify as unlawful imprisonment; shame they all had to get neural implants to remain competitive in law school.

“cyberpunk future where you need to make payments on your cybernetics or they get repo’d” is good, but doesn’t go far enough. consider cyberpunk future where the terms of service restrict how you can use your augments and implants — your prosthetic hands physically quake and lock up if you try to use them for things your medical company deems “a risk factor” (which somehow includes protesting the very same biomedical conglomerate), and your eyes automatically blur information that tells you how to improve or update augments yourself. but even surrounded by this much greed, widespread underground communities exist of people helping one another jailbreak their titanium bodies, recapturing the autonomy corporations have methodically stripped away from them.

[tasteofmintsworld]

Noise studies 2023 - Live at Sonic Threshold @ Greyspace in the Middle, The Hague - May 18th 2023

"Space is completely invaded by noise; we are completely occupied by the same noise.

The agitation is everywhere to be heard, beside the signals, beside the silence.

The silent sea is misnamed. Perhaps white noise [bruit de fond] is at the heart

[fond] of being itself. Perhaps being is not at rest, perhaps it is not in motion,

perhaps it is agitated. White noise never stops, it is limitless, continuous,

perpetual, unchangeable. It has no grounding [fond] itself, no opposite. How much noise has to be made to still the noise?" (Serres, 1983)

[parcspace]

Kasai Rinkai Koen Station