#it’s just BLACK NOTHINGNESS

[leahthedreamer]

For the amount of money that the Mickey Mouse company spent on the Percy Jackson show, boy is the lighting and direction weak.

[utah-werewolf]

They had no business making him fluffy and pretty lol, could easily go for a regular monkey wearing clothes

[kismetconstellations]

@sockdooe, This is the full original image:

According to the Tumblr post I originally snagged it from, it's an early piece of promotional artwork, meant to depict Keith as the series's central character. Shiro is shoved into the background, presumably to illustrate that he was intended to fulfill a Doomed Mentor role.

[duck-in-a-spaceship]

Black Holes and the Pale

OKAY so. Black holes, pale, I don't think it's hard to see the similarities that could be drawn there. The pale is consuming reality. It is expanding. No one knows what lies at its heart and so many unanswered questions surround it. Famously, the same is true of black holes. Really, they're the closest thing we have to the pale; a destructive, consuming, unknowable force. And Disco Elysium does NOT shy away from drawing these parallels.

The first comparison is easy: both black holes and the pale are big, and can't be seen. Without the help of an accretion dick (matter and energy surrounding a black hole. hang tight, we'll get there) the only way they can be observed is by watching how they warp light. And they sure can be massive, with the largest one we've found so far having a mass of about 1 billion suns. They are the densest thing in are universe. Denser than anything.

Get closer, and we make it to the accretion disk, sitting outside the event horizon of our black hole. These are simply all of the matter and energy orbiting the black hole, often on an eventual path towards singularity. In the way that a porch collapse shows matter "rising into the pale", the accretion disk represents that same boundary. It is everything being pulled into the black hole, and it makes an incredible spectacle as it goes. Particles churn at appreciable fractions of the speed of light, glowing with energy as they do so. This "uproar of matter" that Joyce describes mimics that great boundary, the final moment of unrest and chaos before nothingness.

And now, the event horizon, that road you cannot come back from. This is my absolute favorite parallel, because it is exactly how black holes work. Once you pass the event horizon, any direction you move in will only bring you closer to singularity. That's how warped space and time are. Not only is there no hope at escape, but any attempt to struggle only dooms you faster.

But information doesn't just get taken into the pale, it's also spat back out. Bits of conversation travel across time and space. Kim listens to old ghosts on his radio. Strange voices talk through electronic doorbells. A police officer forgets who he is.

Black holes, despite being famously inescapable, actually have to let one thing out: information.

The information paradox was a problem scientists had with black holes for a while. Basically, information isn't supposed to be able to be destroyed, but since black holes slowly disappear through Hawking radiation, it seemed like their information would go along with them. Very not allowed.

The physics here gets very theoretical, but it's generally agreed on that black holes HAVE to release information back into the universe. (Likely through mechanics similar to Hawking radiation.) Newer theories claim that as a black hole nears the end of its life, it would spit out all of the information it's gathered in its lifetime.

Another thing both this quote AND the last one bring to attention is how both the pale and black holes warp time. The pale, as we all know, does a lot of weird shit to time. It brings old memories to resurface, lets them mingle with the future, makes that the burden of the present. Black holes, with their immense gravity, also warp and bend time.

If you stumbled into a black hole, you could watch the universe speed up as you fell, time rushing by. But from an outsider's perspective, you would never even make it in. Once you reached the event horizon, you would freeze and then slowly fade out from view, never actually appearing to cross the boundary.

Black holes don't just grow forever; they also die. They release Hawking radiation, losing energy and mass at INCREDIBLY slow rates. And it seems like a similar thing will happen to the pale. After swallowing all of humanity, all of its fuel, the Pale will leech its energy back out into space. Elysium, in whatever state it's in after that, will be uncovered and given the chance to regrow, start anew.

The main question, really, becomes what will remain?

It's theorized that when black holes die, they release a final burst of incredible energy, a massive explosion tearing through the universe. Does the same fate wait for Elysium? If Revachol can avoid being torn apart by an atomic device, does it meet the same fate in atomic nature?

After the world, the pale; after the pale -- the world again.

[aashiyancha]

Sometimes he just stares at me in the most uncanny way

[foreverppl]

Moodboard for my MC Evander for @uroboros-if

I so enjoyed playing this demo last night and have been having many Thoughts about it.

[yardsards]

how do ppl drink tea w cream in it that shit just tastes like Water 2™

[obiwan-kenobabe]

Me, actively sobbing because I have aphantasia and I can never see my OCs properly and I can never see my ships together like I'm actually so incredibly sad about the fact that I can't see shit in my brain........

[thatblondeperson]

People really don't talk enough about how it feels to passively want to die all the time.

[gouinisme]

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h surely i dont have to take off the remnants of my green nail polish. surely the red is opaque enough. surely the shitty nailpolish i bought at the market is gonna look good wh8ile applied improperly

[burger-goblin]

can i get an f in the chat

just had to send my 21-year old car off to the retirement home and, since she was my first car, i'm feeling like a big ol baby about it

[strixhaven]

still of the firm opinion that vampires and werewolves are honestly both pretty overrated and i overall don’t have much interest in either, but “would you rather be a vampire or a werewolf?” is such a no-brainer in werewolves’ favor. i love being hairy i couldn’t live without garlic i love feeling the warmth of the sun and frankly i think it’d be nice to go completely apeshitt with the moon every once in a while. and you can still be goth with all that too like it’s a clear win for werewolves out here

[hungry-hobbits]

kinda sucks that there's so much bigoted controversy over the new little mermaid movie just for it to also look pretty bad effects wise

[kismetconstellations]

☆.☆.☆

[1-1-s1ay-2-2]

You know the long, vertical cracks of darkness that form visually when a door is left partially open...I don't like those.

[mosspapi]

I was Going to try to get a water bottle but my father just scared the absolute living daylights out of me to the point where my legs r shaking so bad I don't think I can safely get to the kitchen. We live in a society bottom text