#progenerate

[robot-singularity]

Looks like those left a mark, huh

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Hello! Love love love your blog so much, especially the poetry part! I wish all the best for you, this blog has changed my whole writing system

Would love to see a few words on the birth/origin of great things, if possible. Thank you, and take care <3<3

Birth – The coming into existence of something; origin, beginning.

Origin – That from which anything originates, or is derived; source of being or existence; starting point.

Ancestry – The origin, background, or historical development of something.

Beginning – That in which anything has its rise, or in which its origin is embodied; origin, source, fount.

Extraction – Of things: Origin, source. Obsolete.

Fontal – A source or origin of something. Obsolete.

Headspring – The chief source of something; the quarter from which something originates.

Heartspring – (Chiefly poetic and literary) the spring or source of a person's innermost feelings, thoughts, etc. (chiefly in plural).

Naissance – Origin, birth. Obsolete.

Nativity – The creation, beginning, or origin of something.

Parentage – The source or origin of something.

Primordial – A primeval, original, or fundamental thing; a beginning or origin; a first principle.

Principium – Beginning, commencement; origin, source; first principle, element; fundamental truth. Now rare.

Principle – That from which something originates or is derived; a source, an origin; the root (of a word, etc.). Now chiefly Philosophy and Theology.

Progenerator – The source or original from which something is derived; a forebear or progenitor.

Quelle – A literary source; the source from which a concept, piece of information, etc., derives.

Racine – A root cause, a source.

Radix – Source, origin; that in which anything originates. Rare.

Rist – A source, an origin. Obsolete.

Root – That from which something grows or is derived; a source, origin, or cause.

Source – The chief or prime cause of something of a non-material or abstract character; the quarter whence something of this kind originates.

Sourdre – Source.

Spawn – The source or origin of something.

Springer – A source, an origin. Obsolete.

Upstart – Upspring, origin. Obsolete. Rare.

Wellhead – A primary source or origin of something.

Wellspring – A source or origin providing a constant or abundant supply of something.

More: Notes & References ⚜ Word Lists

I'm not sure I fully understood what you meant by "great things" though. Let me know if I got it wrong, I could make you another list!

But this is so lovely to hear, thank you for your kind words & take care as well <3

[ultraericthered]

Whitewash Fit For A King

Somewhat related to the post I just made.

It's quite ironic given King Magnifico's cult leader-like status in the film that there exists a small but still sizeable (for this site at least) amount of Wish viewers who make up a cult following of Magnifico stans. And when I say this, I mean they're all that kind of villain stan.

Oh no no no no no...

Yeah, it partially gives me more cause to resent the filmmakers of Wish including both scenes with the burnt tapestry of Magnifico's sad childhood trauma-related past that spurred him towards creating his kingdom in the final cut ("If only I'd known magic back then...", "so THAT doesn't happen again!"), but at the same time, I feel like even without those moments, these people would've found some way of woobifying and saintifying the character and act as apologists for his villainy. After all, this has happened with virtually every fictional villain in existence in the history of ever. These kinds of stupid, immature simps who don't want to look in the eye the reality that their faves are problematic to the point of being literal evil villains have always existed, and a character like Magnifico is hardly the most perplexing case of this. I recall long ago reading the opinion pieces of someone who was an apologist for Scar from The Lion King, trying to paint him as a lifelong victim and Mufasa as the real villain (can't wait for the upcoming Mufasa movie to re-ignite THOSE takes!). On Xitter I once came upon someone who actually simped for and woobified fucking Ghetsis from Pokemon, projecting all sorts of mental illness and disabilities onto him while insisting that the character had some redeemability that has never once been shown to exist in canon. Even on here, there are people who stan Phillip Wittebane/Emperor Belos from The Owl House, to the point where they maliciously trivialize the religious trauma that Dana Terrace had to grow up with so that they can act like she's petty for "vilifying" the literal villain of her own goddamn story. And I don't even need to get started on the "Magneto Is Never Wrong" subgenre of villain apologism that you can find all over social media. These stans are all absolutely koo-koo!

I've seen this whitewashing/apologism garbage for villains spewed out ad nauseum and the Magnifico simps all sound the same as what I've seen out of those other villain simps - "He deserved better, he wasn't at fault for his mental downward spiral that Asha, the citizens of Rosas, and even his wife drove him to, how dare Disney vilify the mentally ill and victims of trauma like this, blah blah blah blah." And yet there was still one in particular with takes that made me go:

To be specific, it was the very same "Rainbow the Clown" take that this post gave a mention to. The person in question felt the need to mention that they're a Christian (and I hate that in the Trump era, that has become almost a red flag for me), and that as such, they believe that all black magic/dark magic has demonic roots and that they can recognize a demonic possession when they see one. Their interpretation of the film's events, which had absolutely zero basis in anything that was made the least bit explicit in the film itself, was that Magnifico reading from the tome of forbidden magic gave some anonymous demonic entity that progenerated that magic access into Magnifico's soul, mind, and body, and it overtook him. Therefore, everything Magnifico went on to do cannot be blamed on Magnifico himself, as he was "possessed" at the time, not in his right state of mind and not truly aware of the reality around him anymore. And this is why it was so cruel that he ended up punished rather than saved.

Yeah, about that. In the actual movie, there's zero mention of demons or otherworldly entities tied to that spellbook. The black magic itself that is conjured out from the book once the pages are read from and is able to make the spells and curses described within the book work is its own natural force. Its capabilities are destructive and once it bonds with its caster, it poisons their mind with an unbreakable addiction to using it, so that's why it was considered "forbidden" to start with. Magnifico unseals the tome and reads from its pages during his grievance-laden villain song, and we see this:

The magic comes out like green arms or ropes that coil around both of Magnifico's hands, and once they do, we see that green magic juice flow right inside of Magnifico, which briefly makes his eyes glow green as well. This is not "possession" - this is amalgamation. This magic binds itself to Magnifico like a symbiote, and in turn Magnifico is one with the magic now, committed to wielding it and making it manifest as awesome power to service his whims and desires. The literal next thing that happens after is the green fading from the king's eyes as he goes "Where was I? Oh yeah." After the process has be done, he shakes it off and resumes his singing, only now with the green dark magic at his disposal to freely use however he pleases. The magic and the destabilizing effect it has on Magnifico's mental state as he uses it to break and ingest magically contained wishes was not the cause of his turn to evil: it was the consequence of it.

And let's say that the book did contain a demonic entity that made the magic happen and it went into Magnifico to influence him from within a la Myotismon with Yukio Oikawa. It was still Magnifico's own damn fault because he chose to go back on his word to his wife and open up the forbidden book. He's no more absolved of calling out the demon than Mok Swagger is for deliberately summoning a demon to devour his own concertgoers. And no, "but he's just so traumatized!", "he's mentally ill with anxiety issues and was having a breakdown!", or "Asha and those selfish, ungrateful citizens drove him to it!" don't erase Magnifico's agency and capacity for making choices that he did, even in a limited time, think through and decided to go for it anyway. I'm not into the discourse over whether or not Magnifico could be redeemed or if he "deserved redemption" or not, but if you'd like to see a character's redemption, they need to have done some unjustifiable wrongs or else there's nothing to "redeem" them for!

(There was another Magnifico cultist who was a little more on point and likened the book and its magic to a substance abuse metaphor, drawing parallels between Magnifico and the character of Jack Torrance from Stephen King's The Shining. But they specifically paralleled his situation with King's Jack Torrance, when in the actual canonical narrative of the actual movie, Magnifico is Kubrick's Jack Torrance - the alcohol addiction isn't there to draw his inner demons back out so that a demonic entity can better use him and ultimately possess him, it's there to reveal who he always truly was deep down, which is what he becomes when he discards anything and everything in him that beforehand was reigning him in and holding him back.)

Another argument for the demonic possession theory? This part here in the climax, cited as the moment the entity was exorcised from Magnifico, leaving him confused and afraid of what he awoke to find himself currently facing before getting oh so wrongfully imprisoned.

....Folks, that's literally Sakina's wish, the first wish he broke and absorbed into himself through use of his newly acquired dark magic, coming back out from him. The green glow is there because, as just stated, it was that green dark magic that was used to eat the wishes in the first place. The green eyes and green glow fade from Magnifico to signify his power weakening. All the wishes that he absorbed after Sakina's come out from him following this. And if he'd really snapped out of a possession and was back to being his true "good" self at that point, why would the first thing out of his mouth be "NO! THOSE ARE MY WISHES!"? And if the demonic dark magic entity was gone, then where do the green magic hands that drag Magnifico into the tip of his scepter come from? The magic did not leave him because it cannot leave him; it's a part of him, he's a part of it. Reading from the pages of that book even once made him committed to the magic. It's a symbiotic bond and there's no breaking it. That was the point!

Last argument for this crackpot idea I saw from this person was that "high on green-colored dark magic" Magnifico cannot possibly be a valid representation of the king's true character because....his face when we first met him looked so handsome and kind! Look at him!

It's the same ol' "Hans' Twist Villain reveal was bullshit because he was not set up like a villain at any point beforehand, meaning he was not a villain until that very moment, and we can tell this because he never LOOKED evil!" argument, the one that usually relied on a single moment of Hans giving a sweet looking yet condescendingly fond and amused grin to himself after having met Anna that ignores all context, and is based on the idea that only cartoon caricatures of delightfully foul and obvious evilness have to exist to play the villain in place of realistic people in a Disney animated movie, as in real life, evil people aren't easy to identify just by looking at them. The thing is that some Disney villains, arguably all the way back to the likes of Stromboli and the Coachman in Pinocchio, serve as reflections of the dangers of people that have existed and still do exist in the world. King Magnifico is that for the covert narcissist in a position of authority that they're prone to abuse. Yeah, he won't always have EVIL BASTARD written all over his face, but there's context for why that is. In that first image, he's just talking to another person when that person is applying for a job working for him, and as such he plays the part of the kind, charming, generous and benevolent king. In the second image, he's looking at the wishes. The beauty within those magic wish orbs and the splendor their magic gives off make him very happy; that's part of why he hoards as many as possible.

That is King Magnifico.

^ And THAT is ALSO King Magnifico.

He's a villain. He visibly enjoys being a villain. He is valid as a villain. Let villains be villains and love them for that, dammit!

[incorrect-dnd-show]

Hey! Wanted to run to you before others HAHAH. But D&D Beyond just dropped a short adventure with all the kids and their magic items as progenerated characters to test out the 2024 rules and mechanics! They even brought in the Stormwreck Isle cleric and gave them a name and a hint of lore! Their name is Niko and they are a new arrival to the multiverse! Which like... WILD The link is here to check it out. https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dnd/uhlh/uni-and-the-hunt-for-the-lost-horn#PremadeCharacters

NO FUCKING WAY ITS MY LIL GUYSSSS

THEY EVEN LET THE KIDS GO HOME AND COME BACK FUCK YEAH

[darkysilverwing]

Doctor who: the star beast ramble.

So I feel like they put a bit too much emphasis in rose's nonbinary status in this episode, and i'm saying this as someone who is nonbinary and loves the representation. Because the way they put it in felt super clunky.

Like I can excuse where rose snaps at the doctor and goes "why are you automatically assuming Meep uses masculine pronouns?" cause if they are nonbinary you can assume that they've been incorrectly gendered for years and it might be a sore spot for them, and having Sylvia mess up on rose's pronouns and being weird about it cause they're not used to it was amazing, they could have ended it there.

Heck, I would have loved for Rose and the Doctor to end up splitting off for a second and Rose sticking out her hand to the doctor and going "Rose Noble, She/Her pronouns" and the doctor going "Right... uhhh.. i'm the doctor, he/Him pronouns... for now at least..." would have been a good way to throw in some bits and pieces of that representation.

Instead, we get a bunch of exposition just thrown at us where Donna goes "hold on, that's why my child is nonbinary! Cause the metacrisis within her caused her to inhabit one of the main parts of the doctor, you being the male part, me being the female part, and her being the nonbinary part!"

Like I loved the scene with the password, where uttering the right sequence of words would allow the doctor to release the lock on donna's mind, ending with the "binary... binary... binary" which felt like an homage to donna's break down when she literally started breaking down and repeated "binary" over and over and over again, and it was fully undercut by the fact that apparently rose, internally, going "nonbinary... nonbinary... nonbinary" which... what?

Like would it have been so hard to just extend the flashback a little to show Rose repeating the same words her mother was using? Maybe even have Sylvia going "Rose, what are you doing sweetie?" before the light show happened? Instead it's just sort of implied that the metacrisis was the reason for rose being nonbinary, either somehow it forced donna to give birth to a child who would grow up to be nonbinary, or with the energy in the back of her mind she grew up and was basically forced to become nonbinary in a weird, nature verses nurture scenario.

This Then kinda undercuts the whole representation of rose, cause now she's not just nonbinary, but she's nonbinary because of some weird scifi bullshit, not because it's just a normal thing for someone to be nonbinary.

And even if you did look at it like "oh she was born nonbinary because the scifi bullshit made her nonbinary" they then go "oh yeah, also if you're male presenting you're just power hungry and couldn't possibly think of just releasing the energy" which... i mean I love the fact that we can have some more donna episodes but really? they couldn't have just made up a bit more science fiction nonsense? Like "Oh doctor, dont you get it? the Shared inheritance created a monotelepathic psudoresonance frequency, allowing for a progenerational metasiphoning energy transfer. Which means we can perform an simultanious inverse chronoamplitude redistribution." and then shaun could just be like "you could... what?" and donna can go "we can just let it go" and then do the whole light show thing without throwing a weird jab at male presenting individuals.

Also, with the whole "Just let it go" thing, this kinda just implies that donna could have just gone "oh damn, I'm dying, but I can just choose not to die." and then we wouldn't have lost her for so long? I don't know, it was fine I guess, but like... still wasn't all that great, maybe I'll go watch some video essays and have my mind changed but still.

[andmaybegayer]

Last Monday of the Week 2023-08-07

Rainy season has come

Listening: Acid Magus' new album Hope Is Heavy is out, here's Progeneration.

Love Acid Magus. If you buy this album you also get a 15 minute long rearrangement of the three core songs from their first album which is absolutely killer.

Reading: Halfway through The Will to Battle. Notes to follow elsewhere as I make more progress.

Watching: Mermaid: The Body Found, at movie night. A mockumentary about mermaids being real shown on Animal Planet that was taken seriously by some people. Extremely stupid, great for heckling.

Making: Cinnabar is fully assembled, following a minor adventure with the power supply and finally fully stocking up on SATA cables. I'll put together a final parts list now that she's settled and I can actually use her in my day-to-day.

Playing: Mostly just kicking the tyres on Cinnabar with a few small runs in high end games, but I started Control and got to the first control point. I like the atmosphere but I can tell it's going to take me forever to get through this game with the amount of lore scattered around these cavernous halls.

Tools and Equipment: C/++ has a vars array of macros to print metadata about your code including the filename, line and function that a macro falls inside of. This is extremely handy for writing easy to use printf debugging code. GCC adds some extensions on top of even these.

[boobachu]

Do you think the Hamburglar fucked Hey Arnold! and that's how Inklings are made?

I mean, they brought him back just now so there's time... it's inevitable before the proto-woomy is progenerated...

i had a dream that due to a botched contract mcdonalds had accidentally agreed to individually sponsor every post on tumblr dot com so the site was unusable because everyone was just posting like 'cock sex cum' and then there'd be a giant integrated SPONSORED BY THE MCDONALDS CORPORATION banner underneath it and mcdonalds was losing millions of dollars on this

[collymore]

Love, the elegant antithesis to the irrefutably, villainous perturbations of Hate!

By Stanley Collymore

By virtue of its discernibly quite innate characteristics Love is perceptibly very instinctive and naturally simply reassuring. Hate, however, in obviously and undeniably so an unarguable contrast, is fittingly rather markedly, unquestionably and unrelentingly, distinctly prescriptive! For unlike Love whose general remit and actually voluntary commitment, simply is to evidently literally and as well equally thoroughly inspire, fully generate and sustain wherever and whenever possible an eager feeling of genuine self-assurance; crucially a literal consummate affability and appropriate responsibility for one's own actions and quite distinctively too the instinctive bonding of such personal qualities for, and likewise to the selfless advantage of others.

Hate, for its part, is self-evidently, simply purposefully malignant; egregious in its actions, at every affordable opportunity; and while efficaciously ploughing its wanton way along the literally ingrained furrows of jealousy, invidious envy, and the vilely wilful progeneration of any and every possible calamity, actually cheerfully, keenly, undoubtedly, and mercilessly congratulatorily, irrefutably presents itself whenever crass barbarity and basically its accompanying carnage unquestionably specifically become the efficacious, or relevant currency.

(C) Stanley V. Collymore 5 July 2024.  

Author's Remarks: The evidently, innately sterling qualities of my clearly distinctly proud Barbadian Culture has discernibly firmly imbued in me a rather strong, personal ethos; that I should never hate anyone despise, by all means, relevant individuals who truly deserve great loathing; but to go on and obviously hate them or crucially anyone else for that matter, never!  And actually so, because to rather vindictively utilize one's time, precious or nor, in idiotically, asininely and often essentially counterproductively hating anyone, only ultimately reduces one's own self inevitably to quite simply being really the actual despicable figure that one ironically is employing to really in effect castigatorily lambast and also equally evidently vitriolically demean or denounce one's chosen target for quite simply being themselves.

The rationale behind all this being that if you are being hateful yourself, how then can you honestly condemn others for behaving in precisely the same way that you're deeply engrossed in actually behaving yourself? It makes no sense whatsoever to me, and your subjectivity is quite skewed to say the very least. A classic case of do as I say or suggest but evidently not as I do!

Despising someone however is simply a literally wholly different and objective ball game because it's not based solely on subjective and very often thoroughly bigoted emotions or persuasions really as hate unequivocally and similarly also is; but instead quite logical, intelligently and rather solidly and simply irrefutably garnered facts, on which one can quite sensibly, and should always do so, base their own thoroughly objective analysis and obviously, intelligently constructive determination.

So exactly when are you distinctively as such effectively going to obviously climb down off the several, rather calculatedly orchestrated populist, very inane and utterly fatuous and basically ill conceived bandwagons of hate that you so idiotically love climbing aboard onto, even when you don't know, evidently haven't met or are ever in your life time or theirs ever likely to meet - ring any bells with you? - because of a lack of your own actually poor self-esteem? Just try it! It might very well even make you a half decent person!

[progenerate-eu]

M1 part3 | renovation | loft | video #1 from Georgi Tsochev on Vimeo.

English visitors - scroll down to the bottom

BG/БГ: Първо видео на тема "renovation" подтема "loft" Лофт ли е наистина? Макар предходната функция на настоящото обитаване да е било също жилище, а не склад или промишлено хале, (класически лофт) търсеният ефект и резултат е именно жилище притежаващо всички останали характеристики на "Лофт" - голяма светла височина (близо 4м) - отворена планировка - външно (характерно за промишлените сгради) окабеляване/инсталации - груба/сурова третировка на повърхностите на стените в жилището

В началото на филмчето ясно се вижда завареното разпределение и последващата трансформация. Малката кухня ще стане спалня, а трите стаи са обединени в общо многофункционално пространство.

Заданието (изготвено съвместно с клиент) бе:

1. Съвременно тип "Лофт" обитаване 2. Петдесет хиляди лева бюджет (2016 година) 3. Огромен "миндер" спалня (2.0м х 3.6м) до ниво прозорец дневна 4. Зона спорт + офис в рамките на дневната 5. Много складово пространство

Изпълнение:

1. Лофт ли е? Според мен - Да. Какво е вашето мнение? Ще се радвам на коментари. 2. Надхвърлихме с малко бюджета, но жилището се сдоби с изключително икономична в дългосрочен план система за отопление и топла вода - термопомпа "въздух-вода" Допълнителна икономия реализирахме от рецеклиране заварен дървен под, минимален бюджет локализиран за "финиш" на стени, икономичен и минималистичен дизайн за цялото обзавеждане) 3. Миндера добави складова площ с обем 5.76м3 или колкото малка (2-3м2) гардеробна стая 4. Шведска стена + копринен шал за "въздушна гимнастика" + елегантно "сгъващ се" офис 6. Освен двоен под за багаж в спалнята, добавихме и множество вградени гардероби и оползотворихме всеки кв.см пространство виж повече снимки от жилището в профилът ни в инстаграм:instagram.com/progenerate

Сред другите добри причини за двоен под в спалня: 1. необходимо пространство за "изравнителен резервоар" термопомпа 2. почти "френски прозорец" в спалня, без да се налага промяна фасада сграда 3. оползотворяване на твърде голямата за такъв тип помещение светла височина в помещението

- водещ проектант - "продженерейт-бг еоод" - ръководител изпълнение/бюджет - "продженерейт-бг еоод"

Настоящото видео е направено и качено на 28 август 2019 год, (част от първо видео: progenerate 3 in 1:

• progenerate 3 in ... ) Ако намеря отново вдъхновение и време бих могъл да направя още видеа свързани с този проект. Очевидно името ще е ... | loft | video #2, 3, 4

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ENG: The first video on the topic "renovation" this time with the subtopic "loft" Is it really a loft? Although the previous function of the present habitation was also a dwelling and not a warehouse or an industrial hall, (classic loft) the desired effect and result is precisely a dwelling possessing all the other characteristics of a "Loft" - high clear height (nearly 4m) - open layout - external (typical for industrial buildings) wiring/installations - rough/harsh treatment of the wall surfaces in the dwelling The welded distribution and the subsequent transformation are clearly visible at the beginning of the film. The welded kitchen will become a bedroom, and the three rooms are united in a common multifunctional space.

The BRIEF or assignment (prepared together with the client) was:

1. Modern-type "Loft" dwelling 2. Fifty thousand budget (2016 year) 3. Huge "minder" bedroom (2.0m x 3.6m) next to the living room window level 4. Sports area + office within the living room 5. Lots of storage space

the end result:

1. Is this a loft? Any comments? 2. We exceeded the budget by a little, but the house got extremely economical in the long-term heating and hot water system - an air-water heat pump Additional savings were realized by recycling an old wooden floor, minimal budget localized finish walls, and economical, raw and minimalist design for all furniture) 3. Mindera added a storage area with a volume of 5.76m3 or as much as a small (2-3m2) dressing room 4. Swedish wall + silk scarf for "aerial gymnastics" + elegant "folding" office 6. In addition to a double floor for luggage in the bedroom, we also added multiple built-in wardrobes and used every square centimetre of space see many photos of the apartment on our Instagram profile: instagram.com/progenerate

Among other good reasons for a double floor in a bedroom: 1. required space for "equalizing tank" heat pump 2. almost a "French window" in a bedroom without having to change the facade of the building 3. utilization of the light height in the room, which is too large for this type of room

- leading designer - "progenerate ltd" - head of implementation/budget - "progenerate Ltd"

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[egyptroyal]

yall do realize that after the timeless children reveal, that means jenny (doctor’s daughter) can actually have unlimited regenerations with no explanation why.

meanwhile the rest of their family is just stuck in a forced 13 regen cycle like my poor grandbby susan and ohhhh her son, mah poor great grandbby alex

[a-wartime-paradox]

The Nine Many Homeworlds

This is my opinionated version of the Clonewords Project, based on the Book of the War, Crimes Against History, and the Ouroboros Bottle Theory.

Original Homeworld

It is generally assumed that in the Pre-Imperaror Era, there was only one Homeworld. Biological reproduction was not possible here, progeneration only occuring in the "looms" (or, in the Book's terms, the "breeding-engines").

The date of divergence between this One Homeworld and the Many Homeworlds is not entirely clear, due to conspiracies and paradoxes, but at some point the Nine Homeworlds Project was executed, in which eight other alien words were "crypto-formed" to match the culture of the Homeworld. The House designated to each of these Homeworlds is not allowed any interaction with the "true" Great Houses, and the "true" Great Houses are not allowed any interaction with them. Officially, this is to make sure cultural backups are available incase The Enemy destroys the Original Homeworld, although it is widely speculated if this means that the Clonewords may not know they are not the originals (immediately leading to anxieties about whether or not the Prime Homeworld is actually the original).

Prime Homeworld / War King's Homeworld

Romana (evidence: Crimes says "she" and "field experience in the outside universe", and in the EDAs Romana III was President/War Queen), probably in her third incarnation, ruled a Homeworld we shall assign as "Prime", even though technically it may not be the original. At some point, this Romana left this Homeworld. It is generally agreed that she left to rule another Homeworld (potentially not one of the original Eight Clonewords, but that will be expanded upon). However, opinions differ as to whether this was to make that Homeworld think they were the original, or if her displacement was nonvoluntary, and even she thinks her new Homeworld is the original.

(From an out-of-universe perspective, this is very interesting is it seems to imply that at some point during the EDAs, our doctor switched from being ontologically aligned with the Prime Homeworld to being aligned with the Homeworld Romana would rule, as in the EDAs the Doctor always observes her as the leader, up until her Homeworld's destruction on The Ancestor Cell.)

The individual who would become the War King would eventually become the last head of the presidency (after a brief intermediate Head who's head was sent back in the event known as the First Message of the Enemy) and then the War King, a title which embraced both militarism and implied hereditarism (as "king" implies a hereditary monarchy) - and hence "vulgar" biology.

Romana III's Homeworld

This Homeworld is know to be distinct from the War King's, although it apparently was positioned where the original, originally was (Kasterborous, as The Ancestor Cell says. The Book of the War backs this up by "speculating that that original Homeworld may have been moved").

Crucially, despite not actually being the original homeworld (presumably), it's ruling Houses fully believe it to be, and it can be assumed with reasonable safety that it's War Queen, Romana III, also believed it to be the original. This lead to multiple Clonewords of it being created, as if it were the original.

This Homeworld was destroyed, along with its associated part of the Spiral Politic (read: version of history), when a future version of Faction Paradox, lead by Mother Mathara invaded it.

Gallifrey Eight

At this point I should probably disclose that although some of these Homeworlds are numbered, this most likely does not reflect their "observer criticality" (importance) in the Spiral Politic, or position/history relative to the Original Homeworld, due to the fact that many Clonewords beloved themselves to be the original, particularly Romana III's.

Anyway, Gallifrey Eight (or the Eighth Homeworld) had many "loomstacks" (recycling looms) and chronoforges (weapons of mass temporal destruction).

Gallifrey Nine

This Homeworld stored D-Mat guns, capable of complete temporal erasure.

Gallifrey XII

This was Homunculette's home Homeworld. By his time, the "original homeworld" had been destroyed. This statement was made by him, not the narrator, which means that the Homeworld that fell could have simply been the one that Gallifrey XII's ruling Houses believed to be the original, which could be Romana III's, although this contradicts the idea from The Ancestor Cell that Faction Paradox had erased all of Romana III's Homeworld's backups. Alternatively, the "original" mentioned here may have been the first cloneworld to fall, lost in the 'Battle of Mutter's Cluster".

Homeworld lost to the "Battle of Mutter's Cluster"

This Homeworld was likely (but not definitely) distinct from the previously mentioned ones. It was, according to an account that assumed Romana III's Homeworld was the original (The Taking of Planet 5), the first to be destroyed.

Bottle Homeworlds

As seen by I.M. Foreman in Interference (which I haven't read yet, so I'm not entirely sure about this), and the novel Dead Romance, the Great Houses were creating duplicates of their Homeworld inside bottle universes. These bottles leaked quite often, resulting in continuity contradictions and implied links between the EDAs, VNAs, and FP novels.

This means that it seems quite likely that most of the Homeworlds were actually inside bottles, but also that those bottles may be inside each other, in an Ouroboros fashion.

[comicaurora]

We know the Leviathan guarded the merfolk's lifewell. Is employing guardians a standard practice for The Twins? If so, may we get some examples for the other lifewells?

Lifewell guardians are indeed standard practice! They’re unique beings handcrafted by the Twins to observe the lifewell’s progress, protect it from intrusion and overall make sure nothing goes wrong while the species develop. After the lifewell is completed and the species are released, the guardian is granted a boon by the Twins, most commonly the progeneration of their own species. It’s possible that some (or even all) of the Younger Races have lifewell guardians as their progenitors.

[karnakian]

‘  you  know,  even  back  in  my  time,  the  concept  of  marriage  and  progeneration  was  entirely  unappealing  to  me.  i  even  dreamed  that  there’d  be  a  day  when  my  family  name  would  be  completely  lost  to  history.  but  now  that  i’m  here,  knowing  that  my  bloodline,  my  homeland,  will  die  with  me  ...  ’

‘  ha  ha  ...  what  a  lonely  feeling  this  is.  ’

[revuestarlight]

On the contrary. Precisely because it was something you said in the spur of the moment, it has brought your true colours to light.

You tend to avoid answering things outright, but that thought had been buried somewhere deep inside of you, no?

Kagehira. I think you've made a fundamental misunderstanding here.

The reason I exalt humans is not simply for being human. What I love is art, and art alone.

I see value in humans because they are the only beings known to be capable of producing art.

Beasts, you see, are incapable of such. That is what causes them to hold, at least to me, very little worth in comparison to humans.

You're aware of what sets humans apart from beasts, yes? Though this is a generalisation, humans have reason—that which allows us to suppress our wild instincts.

In the end, that may be the only definitive difference between us and them.

Art is but a product of reason.

It exists in a separate vein from undertakings such as eating, sleeping, reproducing and surviving for the preservation of our species, which are simply products of the information coded in our genes.

Even without drawing, even without singing, humans can continue to live without issue. Life is something maintained by eating, sleeping, gaining comrades and ensuring your own safety.

Art is not something humans require to live. Thus, we can call it a product of reason—or perhaps even a product of our humanity.

So then, what exactly is "humanity"? As you have previously said with great disdain, it is indeed the subject of much glorification in fiction.

Society dictates that we all ought to hold hands and get along, work diligently and reap the rewards of our labour.

They say everyone should live freely, doing whatever their hearts desire...

Whether it be taking down your enemies, fulfilling your dreams, or loving another.

This is wherein the error lies. Each of these things are simply products of our instincts.

Why do we love others...? Family, friends, lovers? The simple fact is that it facilitates our survival—the continuation of our species.

Increasing the number of people we can mutually love serves to protect us from external threats. Since that protection also facilitates the continuation of our lives, it elevates our survival rate.

That in turn allows for progeneration and proliferation.

In accordance with our genetic makeup—in other words, our instincts—those are simply ideal living conditions.

Love, dreams, justice, effort, friendship, victory...

Our stories sing their praises and extol them, but such concepts do not constitute humanity.

Humanity is, for example, the will that one requires to kill that which they love deeply.

An irrational, implausible action that defies the laws written in our DNA. Absolutely meaningless, moronic behaviour.

Other times, it is the will one has when, all the while knowing their continued existence would clearly benefit mankind and its future...

They instead choose to sacrifice themselves for some worthless nobody.

The free will to make such foolish decisions... That is what constitutes humanity.

[tsodeman13]

The Doctor was an abused child who had her ability to regenerate stolen and given to her abusers and then subsequently made to believe that this unique ability was not hers to begin with.

She’s not some messiah or supreme being. She was abused and experimented on and then subsequently gaslit to believe she didn’t progenerate the Time Lords.