#palisade 41

[madcap-nattery]

Integrity + Ebullience + This Being

[ahcoffeebeans2]

palisade 41: the experience

the future fucking sucks man

[coriolisunset]

i know everyone's sad about this episode but here's me calling the big reveal with perfect accuracy 354 days in advance

[ellasadventuresinfandoms]

my face literally the entire time the figure stuff was happening

[doobyous]

“We are coming home not to conquer, but to build. Our doors are open. Send your envoys. Send your theologians. We are eager to talk.”

[swordbreakerz]

it took me 3 days to finish the episode

[telomirage]

the ominous countdown beginning mid-fake bird complaint 😂😭 interrupted by joe de vivre having a sudden craving to play checkers

[batboyblog]

Things Biden and the Democrats did, this week #11

March 22-29 2024

The Administration, with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg in the lead responded to the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. Working with Governor Wes Moore and Mayor Brandon Scott (both Democrats) The Department of Transportation promises to clear the harbor and rebuild the bride. DoT has already released $60 million in emergency funds as a "down payment" and President Biden is expected to seek $1 billion from Congress.

Vice President Harris announced a number of actions and investments designed to improve the quality of life of the peoples of northern central America. driven by poverty, lack of economic opportunities, and out of control crime people in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras are taking great risks and trusting criminal human traffickers to try to reach the US. The Administration is working to improve conditions in the Northern Triangle so that is no longer necessary. Vice President Harris announced $1 billion dollars in new investments as part of the Central America Forward public-private partnership, since 2021 it has invested $5.2 billion in the region. Harris also announced $175 million dollars of direct aid from the US to Guatemala at a meeting with Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo.

The Department of Energy announced a $1.5 billion dollar loan to help restart the Palisades Nuclear Plant. This would mark the first time a nuclear power plant was brought back online after being decommissioned. The hope is keep the plant running till 2051, this 100% green power source is projected to prevent 111 million tons of CO2 emissions in its new life time, the same as taking 100,000 cars off the road. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer touted it as key for her state reaching its goal of 100% clean energy by 2040.

Vice President Harris launched a social media push to inform the public about the Biden-Harris Administration's SAVE Plan. The Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) Plan was launched last year as part of President Biden's efforts to bring student loan forgiveness to millions of borrowers. Currently 7.7 million people are enrolled in SAVE, under which anyone making $16 a hour or less has a monthly payment of $0 on their student loans. 4.5 million SAVE enrollees are making $0 a month payments and another 1 million pay less than $100 a month on their loan repayment, over 150,000 people so far have had their loans totally forgiven. Republicans are suing to try to shut down the SAVE Plan

President Biden took keep steps to ensure quality healthcare this week. Biden extended the window for low-income Americans to apply for Obamacare. The original deadline of July 31st has been pushed back to November 30th. Biden also rolled back Trump era rules that allowed subsidies for "Junk Health insurance" These plans offer very little coverage and often mislead consumers into believing they have insurance when they aren't covered. These short term plans also don't have meet Obamacare standards and can refuse coverage for preexisting conditions.

The EPA announced new regulations aimed at "turbocharging" the number of electric trucks on the road. The new rules aim to have 25% of new long-haul trucks, the heaviest often diesel trucks on the road, and 40% of medium-size trucks (box trucks and landscaping vehicles) be nonpolluting by 2032, currently just 2% are. The regulation would apply to more than 100 types of vehicles including tractor-trailers, ambulances, R.V.s, garbage trucks and moving vans. The new tailpipe limits are expected to prevent about a billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions by 2055.

the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services  announced that thanks to President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act, 41 different drugs will coast those on Medicare Part B less money than it did last year.  An estimated 763,700 people on Medicare use at least one of these drugs every year. Some enrollees will save as much as $3,575 per dose.

The Department of Energy announced $6 billion for an effort to decarbonize energy-intensive industries. The investment in 33 projects across 20 states will eliminate 14 million metric tons of CO2 emissions each year when finished. Each project is meant to be highly replicable and serve as a blueprint for future private sector ventures. 

President Biden signed an Executive Order to Strengthen the Recognition of Women’s History. The Order will launch a review of all historic sites run by the National Parks Service to determine ways to better highlight the role of women, from all backgrounds, in American History.

The Senate Confirmed President Biden's nominees, Ernesto Gonzalez, and Leon Schydlower to federal judgeships in Texas. This brings the total number of federal judges appointed by President Biden to 190.

[swallowtailed]

palisade 41

honestly don’t really know where to begin here.

because, like, we all kinda knew this was coming, right? odds were it had to happen sometime. now it has.

but there’s still a real cosmic unfairness to the timing of it. figure died right after they decided they didn’t want to. breaking the wheel of their resurrection is fine and all, but they fought so hard to escape clem and join perennial that it doesn’t really ring true to me.

hearing future in the same sentence reminded me that there’s another suite of definitions for figure, aside from the noun meaning shape or form—the verb meaning guess, consider, imagine.

i’m inclined to read future and perennial as two sides of the same coin—two views of the principality. future sees an inevitable road toward culmination, perennial sees that it’s all the same fucking cycle. also, future seizing on a moment of power from perennial and turning it to their own ends.

real gur just cannot catch a break. they’re stuck with future, inside their own reanimated corpse, guarded by the shell of figure? some real eternal torment there.

so, you know. shit sucks!!

i was really, really hoping eclectic would steal future, and it would also have been incredible for gur sevraq (who, as we know, stole the future) to be stolen from future, but the dice fall as they will

really interesting contrast between the two sides of this arc wrt divine/axiom/mortal/etc relationships. thisbe is guiding integrity and communicating with ebullience, building relationships across ways of being. figure is destroyed just by exposure to divine power, subsumed by the weight of a god rearing up on its own. the axiom being willing to treat with thisbe, the divine destroying figure. which is maybe less about those powers than about the hands moving them—instrumentalization as always a core theme of palisade. 

of course it is also a cautionary tale of the capriciousness of dice. if figure and gur had gotten to speak with future i can imagine it going more like thisbe’s side. but maybe not! we’ll never know.

characters being demanded to envision a future was one of my favorite beats in partizan and it was really cool to hit that again (and to call back to leap!). but also heartbreaking. cori, happy and safe…

aw fuck the crew’s still gonna have to find out that figure is dead… mortality of course goes hand in hand with grief. much like valence’s death i think the positioning of figure’s death is ultimately going to be shaped most by reactions to it

dre’s pc deaths are always so fraught, huh. valence and chine were also kind of messy, sudden deaths—no clean tragedy. which, like, is life, but also, ;-;

the music was incredible. like breathing. and the way the dirge just stops—blinks out.

eclectic drawing up the seismic power of opposition, his own power, was really moving. a bit of grace in that moment.

i’m not sure where they’re gonna go from here, especially in terms of character arcs. it’s a rough downbeat. kind of falls in line with the conflict turns, though��fighting back and forth down to the bitter end. might be a bleak finale although at least one more thing seems set to unfold in this arc so honestly who knows

incidentally, bets on that: the smell of computer parts immediately made me think of the nobel, but the mechanical whine heard across the continent made me wonder if it could be palisade waking up (/being woken up). either way, it’s definitely getting to be alarm clock time, right?? (on the other hand maybe this is just motion activating all across palisade, but a bunch of motion factories just got taken down.)

it’s nice that the a-plot crew were having a fun heist though. cori deserves an alise breka mission

tragedy-ass podcast.

[ninthprime]

palisade 41 spoilers

i feel like i don’t have a firm opinion on the figure situation yet because it’s so sudden that i feel like i need to see the long term consequences (i felt this way about valence too), but i do have an opinion on the gur situation and it’s that it’s so bleak and it’s also perfect. so much of this season has been about the way divines are used as instruments and then how they respond to it- the afflictions being former divines who were hurt and warped somehow, the literal existence of the delegates, integrity being taken from dahlia and then trying to remake them, even perennial and arbitrage trying to take things into their own hands in some ways. i’ve heard people discuss future as one of the most “personality-less” divines before and that being turned on its head during this season is completely appropriate and slots in with everything we’ve seen. after thousands of years of being treated as a tool, there’s nothing stopping a being like a divine from trying something else.

and as a gurposter the other fascinating thing about it to me is that it lowkey reframes a lot of gur’s character. gur introduced himself in one of his first intros with a set of titles that included “liberator of the divine future.” but just because you’re using future for purposes outside of authoritarian rule doesn’t mean you’ve liberated it, if you’re using it in the same ways everyone else did. considering future decided to walk around in gur’s literal corpse and start promoting colonization, i get the impression gur was just another in a long list of people who passed it around and interpreted it for their own ends. i think it’s easy to see gur’s central fuckup as their big fight with clem on icebreaker, and that was certainly the moment that was fatal, but this introduces the idea that gur was making the wrong choices years before, when they took the “little golden ball” that clem insulted in that fight and just assumed that doing that was what future would approve of. and now gur’s being passed around between clem, figure and finally future (and to some extent autonomy itself and perennial) in the same way future was passed around for so long. gur stealing future and then future eventually taking their identity, worshipping the true divine and then feeling abandoned when they disperse with logos kantel, getting into the fight with clem and then spending years with her denying their existence, and then being placed with figure only for future to destroy and use him too…there is basically no part of gur’s life, other than helping found millennium break, that has not been recast as a hopeless endeavor or terrible mistake. real unprecedented levels of destroying a person’s identity.

it’s good tragic stuff and fits in really well with a lot of what this season has touched upon in terms of relationships between divines and people. uhhhh hey brnine sure hope your relationship with asepsis stays “normal” and “fine” : )

[clementineskesh]

palisade 41

(spoiler in rot13 reaction not)

"vs Qer unq ebyyrq 3 fvkrf evtug urer vg'f qbar"

"bu ab" tnfc "ubyl fuvg" "bu zl tbq, bu zl TBQ" "jung n cresrpg gvzr gb qb vg"

I AM AN HOUR AND A HALF AWAY FROM HOME ITS 11 PM AND I STARTED SCREAMING WHAT THE FUUUUCK WHAT THE *FUCK* WHAT THE *FUCK* YO WHAT THE FUCK OVER AND OVER AGAIN UNTIL THEY STARTED ACTUALLY DESCRIBING THE CONSEQUENCE THEN I HAD TO PULL OVER TO POST ABOUT BC WHAT THE FUCK NO WAY WHAT THE FUCK (Rot13) SVTHER QVQ EBYY GUERR FVKRF NAQ RKCYBQR WE WERE FUCKING RIGHT

[fatt-twitter-updates]

PALISADE 49: A Palette of Colors Pt. 4

4:41 PM PDT, 25 May 2024 (Source)

[eclecticopposition]

31 23 41, 5 & 23 for wire guy

aah, thank you for the ask! :}

fic writer asks

unsure if you meant 23 for wire guy or if it was one of the [insert fic] questions (probably 22 or 24!), so we're going to answer both of those! (if it was another number, you can always send in another ask)

anyways, putting this under a cut to spare your dash. wire guy talk and palisade stuff below.

(also, you should read wire guy.)

31. What’s your ideal fic length to write?

actually finishable is nice. so like, 12000 words? there are a few points that just feel nice to our brain. we can write a good 2200 and 2700, a pretty good 5k, and a really good 8k. a solid fic to us is right around the length of an average wire guy chapter. or it's one of our runaway projects, like oceanus. we do love getting tied up in a good longfic.

this doesn't answer your question. how about "the more words we can put in it without making it worse the better"?

23. What’s a trope, AU, or concept you’ve never written, but would like to?

we'd like to write a nonlinear weird fic or something with poetry. something experimental that might be incredibly unapproachable, at least to us.

41. Link a fic that made you think, “Wow, I want to write like that.”

well, our first favorite fic author was @estelraca, so we think we've gotta shout them out here. they turned apollo justice into a werewolf and we had a great time. more recently, we admired the ambience and construction and emotional nuance of the center cannot hold. it's a hunter x hunter fic that we really enjoyed. we also highly recommend Pound The Table! marvel universe lawyer fic written by an actual lawyer. it rules. we don't even go here, and it's so good and explains itself so well that we honestly don't need to.

and for wire guy;

5. What do you wish someone would ask you about [Wire Guy]? Answer it now!

The question is "what is wire guy actually about?"

The answer is "being a wire guy".

And then the actual question is "what does that mean?"

"what does that mean?" is also the actual answer to the first question. this is what wire guy is about.

(and then we've got two thousand words of elaboration, on both this and how it's juxtaposed with two other guys, which is what we would love to be asked about. or, arguably, we have like 120k words of elaboration, 74k of which are currently posted.)

(the other thing wire guy is about is the fact that phrygian had so many depression flags through all of palisade, but because brnine was brnine and cori and figure were having much louder breakdowns, the Copers on the team slipped through the cracks. so we wrote a novel.)

(it's also about pirates. and weird metal heists. we've been told that this fic has more metal heists than may be strictly necessary.)

22. Who is your favorite character in [Wire Guy] and why?

that's such a good question. the obvious answer is phrygian, which is why it's all in their POV! we think that some of the liberties we took with their character were pretty personal to us. working through trauma on their own, struggling with alienation and coersive pressure, being trapped and used, and just the general way they engage with reality was pretty bound up in where our mind was at. we think that given how many people have said they saw something of themselves in our phrygian depiction, too, we might have hit on something resonant. (haha.)

phrygian is such a tragic character, and we think about them a lot. not even just because we're attached to them! (admittedly we are attached to them and we get an emotional spike every time they're mentioned). not getting into heavy palisade spoilers for friendship reasons, but the degree of alienation that they experience and the fact that *the players* are weirded out by things that we personally parse as attempts to self express or connect just gets to us. it's one of those things where we want to crawl around in their brain and just talk about everything we find in there. there's so much depth! most of it is very sad even though it doesn't have to be! and canon does not explore it nearly as much as we want it to, because that's completely infeasible for a podcast or even a work of fiction! we wouldn't even want them to. what we want is like, drops of the pure extract of phrygian characterization juice at frequent and irregular intervals.

also, they're extremely cool and competent. we love the powergaming and watching them win. cool gun go brrrr.

(the second secret answer is lantana lao. this is because lan is a third option to the dreadful bind presented to phrygian in the form of lang silversite, someone who supports them and the branched enthusiastically but in a specifically military capacity, and wants them to go all in on using themself for war; and kel pire, someone who encourages their presence in a behind the scenes capacity, but undermines their boundaries and is much less open to the idea of them having any sort of public presence. what she is able to represent doesn't actually happen in wire guy, but it does happen both in an extras fic that we're also writing, and in our heart. and in wire guy, she's actually their friend! she actually wants to learn about the branched! we want them to have friends. we want them to get to talk to someone who actually talks to them and is a meaningful point of connection in a world that is so unwilling to give it. is that so much to ask?)

24. Are there any easter eggs in [Wire Guy], and if so, what are they?

there are a few! some are in future chapters. but most of them are little partizan nods, which we have a lot of fun with. the ring that lets leap listen in on nidean intelligence comes to mind.

does repeated symbolism count as an easter egg? if so, keep an eye out for things phrygian refers to as useful; keep an eye on wearing shoes; keep an eye on when phrasing is repeated back with small changes; keep an eye on that classic reference to blood in the back of their throat. and keep a close eye on the lights. phrygian does, sometimes.

[cartoonghosts]

spoilers for palisade episode 41

Okay so I knew that figure died but I'm having such a fucking visceral reaction like no that's my little guy. I literally knew that it was gonna happen but I actually cried it's too late at night for me to be listening to the major character death podcast. Anyways both of my favorite characters are dead now which means I'm gonna get ridiculously attached to cori very fast. I will never be able to listen to partizan and palisade ever again

[darkmoonseance]

about to listen to palisade 41 pray for me

[rozecrest]

palisade 41 spoilers - just rambling about my feelings in rot13

v fgvyy srry nyy zvkrq hc naq fnq nobhg svther… v yvgrenyyl znqr n cbfg evtug orsber guvf nep nobhg ubj v jnf jbeevrq nobhg svther qlvat v rkcrpgrq gur cbffvovyvgl ohg vg sryg fb fhqqra? naq v qba’g qvfyvxr gung, vg’f ubarfgyl bar bs zl snibevgr cnegf nobhg aneengvir va npghny cynl vf ubj qenfgvpnyyl guvatf pna punatr jvgu n ebyy be gjb, ubj vg pna srry wneevat naq hacbrgvp naq cneg bs gur sha vf jrnivat gur aneengvir gb rzoenpr rnpu arj harkcrpgrq guvat. naq v guvax qer naq nhfgva qvq n tbbq wbo ng gung jrnivat naq zbzrag uvg ernyyl uneq naq jnf n terng yvfgravat rkcrevrapr. gur pehrygl bs gur shgher… fhpu n cbvtanag ovg bs rzcunfvf sbe svther fcrpvsvpnyyl nf n sbezre pbafreingvir uvfgbel cebsrffbe naq gur svefg punzcvba creraavny jnf urycyrff gb fnir. shpx!

v’z whfg fnq nobhg svther yvxr, nf n crefba. ur’f unq fhpu zbzragf bs gevhzcu naq pynevgl nobhg uvzfrys guvf frnfba, ur jnf cbvfrq ng gur rqtr bs terng ubcr naq serrqbz naq vg jnf qnfurq njnl ol gur n fcrpgbe bs punapr naq yhpx gung’f orra unatvat bire uvz sbe nepf jvgubhg gurz rira xabjvat— juvpu vf irel ggect. ohg vg qvqa’g jbex bhg! yvsr pna or hayhpxl! v nterr jvgu nhfgva nobhg ubj gur gbar nebhaq inyrapr naq svther’f qrngu nyzbfg srry yvxr gur frnfbaf gurl unccrarq va fubhyq or fjvgpurq. irel irel vagrerfgrq gb frr ubj cnyvfnqr ynaqf rzbgvbanyyl.

v nz tynq ng yrnfg, gung svther vf gehyl tbar. gurve obql unf orra chg gb jbex, znqr n gbby ntnva, ohg ng yrnfg gurve zvaq vf abg pntrq. naq sbe n ovg, gurl jrer zber serr guna gurl rire unq orra. gung’f abg abguvat.

birenyy: vg znqr zr srry naq guvax n ybg, juvpu vf zl snibevgr cneg nobhg rkcrevrapvat sevraqf ng gur gnoyr. rkpvgrq va n fnq jnl gb frr gur arjf uvg gur cnegl, rfcrpvnyyl pbev naq oeavar. v’z tynq rpyrpgvp jnf yvxr shpx ab gung’f na vzcbffvoyr cubar pnyy gur znxr, fb gehr. zber yvggyr urnegoernxf gb pbzr sbe gur oyhr punaary. erfg rnfl svther ;-;