#land institute

[ohgreat-moretapes]

Tim I noticed a lot of indigenous patches on your jacket, are you Native?

Idk what my dad was 'cause I never knew him, but yeah my mom is (or... Was.. I guess..) Muscogee, the tribe native to the part of Alabama I'm in.

If I remember correctly she came to Alabama from Oklahoma (where a lot of Natives were displaced to in the 1800s) to "get back to her roots."

But yknow, I was separated from her in childhood (which tbh is upsettingly common for Native families) and I was raised in a very white very Catholic asylum so I'm not as connected to the culture as I'd like to be.

-Tim

[moxachuu]

i wonder how Darkwick handles the disappearance of the MC from their normal lives. like, MC went to a concert alone and never came back home.

ofc it would be easier for the institute if the MC has no one, but if they have a family/friend that searches for them? that file a missing person report when the hours pass with no response from their phone? that know MC would not run away? Do they let them search for their missing loved one and intentionally sabotage police investigations (or even intervene in them to stop any search), or would they use an anomaly to make it seem like nothing happened and MCs loved ones keep living their lifes unknowingly forgetting MC is not there?

we know that busses and taxis didn't see MC when they tried to go home, so there's most likely an anomaly that makes them "invisible"/unrecognizable to the general public. I don't know what would be more cruel, that MCs family is aware of their disappearance but nothing comes out of their searching efforts, or that they aren't even aware that the MC is missing because of the anomaly.

and if they have work or studies going on?

to me it seems like they aren't expecting for MC to break their curse. MC has been dead from the moment they looked at the eye, only the Sage's Ring gave them the "privilege" of going to class instead of going directly to a cell. once the year is over they won't be useful anymore and Darkwick will continue as intended.

[doctorsiren]

Redrew some sketches I did back in 2022 😁

[proofinggentlewoman]

The Landing Place (1787) - Hubert Robert

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

Catholics when someone suggests people are "individuals"

[zuliuli]

Lol who shall be the big bad unredeemable monster Belos?

Im think Hadrian or maybe even Romeo? Or maybe Romeo as the Collector/One of the older Collectors?

Romeo as the collector definitely!

As for Belos, Hadrian is most likely taking his spot, but I did consider a humanoid version of the witherstorm. Hadrian taking on a more witherstorm look for the final battle works too tho!!

[alexander-arnold66]

Hugh Jackman needs to reject me n tell me I that 38 years is WAY too big of an age gap so I can just get over him already.

[rad-roche]

i'm glad i made gloria Just Some Lady. don't get me wrong, future detective is a pretty fucking cool job, but it's not the head of an entire faction. could you imagine her doing that? she'd be made general of the minutemen and put out an order for everybody to never call her at this fucking number again

[anarchistettin]

Brea Baker goes over land justice theoretically, and with historical specificity.

good podcast in general - key ep

[drumlincountry]

Okay I'm not sure who you talked to, but I'm an archaeologist in the US southwest, and the law is that any construction that gets federal or state money - which includes all road construction - does in fact need a full archaeological survey by an accredited Cultural Resource Management firm before construction. I have studied books and books and books of publications that come from per-construction archaeological survey, and artifacts found have to be both reported to the state and properly housed in a state repository museum. Privately funded construction might get that blithe go-ahead unless something is found, but I promise that salvage archaeology before construction is a HUGE part of US archaeology - in fact, it's pretty much the only time when Native American burials are allowed to be excavated, and if burials are found, excavation HAS to stop and the local tribal authorities be notified and collaborated with to determine what to do with them.

I am delighted to hear these standards exist! & I should be more careful about blithe 2am tag ramblings that r second hand stories from a guy I know lol

[emojisarestatussymbols]

Public Art Sculptures in Chicago: Edward Kemeys' Art Institute Lion (South), replica of Hector Guimard's Paris Métro entrance, Chicago by Joan Miró, Flying Dragon by Alexander Calder, Sky Landing by Yoko Ono, The Picasso by Pablo Picasso, Flamingo by Alexander Calder

(The Bean was out of commission)

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

The Dark Knight Rises (2012, Christopher Nolan)

06/11/2024

[lasudio]

StrangeSpot, Round Thirty Two: Research (Uni)

The Research team take a trip to the BOOKMOBILE to hit the books and get assignments done. Several LGU dormies show up too (maybe they're jealous that Anna is playable now, but they'll get their turn eventually)!

Studying keep the Vandermorgan brothers from beefing with each other due to the events of last round. There is a positive out of all of it: Taron and Tara fall in love.

Marco, missing Leela's company, invites his late father's girlfriend Jill on a date. Weirdly, she accepts. Even more weirdly, her boyfriend Rocky walks by and sees them making out. The two have a falling out and Marco finds the whole monogamy thing so boring.

Taron graduates because he studied so hard, and Marco is expelled because he didn't study at all. The guy was on academic probation so much I'm surprised the uni gave him a shot at all, lol.

[lucilleandherrobots]

I'm not sure if this was ever specified in the game, but a horrific institute headcanon I have is that the Institute figured out a way to separate the memories from the personality from the copies of people that have on file. That that's what they use as the basis of all gen 3 personalities- whether first cobbled together in a weird Frankenstein collage or straight to the synth component.

That means that anyone's memories and personalities from prewar that got scanned, they're likely not the person they were once the Institute tampered with them.

If Jenifer Lands did a scan at CIT before her death... Would she even be Jenifer Lands anymore?

[imabiscuitinthousandworlds]

I have begun with my art project! We're supposed to document a journey, real or fictional (applies to both journey and place). So, naturally, I'm sending someone into the Distortion.

The first cardboard box is done! There will be another, larger one underneath that's not immediately visible unless you open the door and I'll find a way to fit in little notes of some poor person's attempt at a diary to keep their senses in these corridors. (It won't work but that's the fun in it).

Anyway I'm really excited for this project and I'm super proud of the door so far!

[opens-up-4-nobody]

hypothetical struggle between Christianity and paganism in bbc merlin? 👀 one that's very neurodivergent? 👀 do tell

Okay, so Athurian times take place in the early dark ages. Which was probably a weird time for religion in Britain. Because the Roman occupation had just come to an end, leaving behind the structure of catholicism at least with those in positions of power. But religious beliefs were still in the process of blending together with the local practices and other religions, leading to some odd gnostic beliefs. Obviously, bbc merlin doesn't talk about Christianity within Camelot but I think we can assume the catholic church would have a position at the round table. Presumably, Arthur would grow up instructed in catholic belief, go to mass, and have bishops or whatever advising him. He would rule by Devine right, sanctioned by the pope and magic would be characterized as demonic. And that somehow raises the stakes for me, imaging magical merlin within the walls of a very catholic Camelot.

I just have this image of merlin in the back of a cathedral as Arthur attends mass. Kneeling in this beautiful building, head bowed low as the congregation sings praise to a foreign God in a foreign tongue. A God that would apparently have merlin tied to a stake and burned alive. And merlin choking out his empty prayers, echoing in the verbal praise under the isolation of his nonbelief and magical association. Full of fear and venom.

The hypothetical struggle I imagine is one of catholic enforcement pushed by Arthur's religious advisors and Arthur's morality. Because Arthur is a good person and slaughtering a people on the basis religion is insane. So, what does it mean for Arthur if he stops listening to his advisors and starts accepting magic? He has to contend with a spiritual struggle, not just the secular issues presented in the show. And I would looooooove to watch that. The bending of Arthur's beliefs into something more flexible and less rigidly Christian according to the church of the time