#siphon

[fuckyeahfluiddynamics]

The Incredible Engineering of the Alhambra

Begun in 1238, Alhambra Palace in Grenada, Spain is a monument to Islamic architecture and clever engineering. Despite sitting far above the city, the Alhambra was fed by the river, diverted from upstream along a canal. (Video and image credit: Primal Space) Read the full article

[violentdelightshavevioletends]

Dain’s signet means people are afraid of being touched by him. Sloane’s signet means she’s afraid to touch other people.

They are each others balance.

A first year in Fourth Wing (a marked one he was warned about of the rebellion he was raised against) & the third year Wing Leader whose father is responsible for killing her brother; making them “should-be-enemies” yet, they have impeccable chemistry. Challenging each other as one of them was rather by the books (but is slowly fraying/changing) and the other a walking rebellion, pushing them into the gray middle ground; creating a balance between them. From the moment one first says, "I’m going to hurt you" & the other "gods don’t I know it" —

… Much like "You’ll be the death of me & "she’d be the best thing that ever happened to me, I’d be the worst thing that ever happened to her" … sound familiar?

Making them the balance to the last time this happened.

Their signets are the balance, and may very well change the war… Her siphon as a signet which could be the counterpart to the Venin; as instead of draining life, she is “life”. And where a main character is now missing (what may be) crucial memories, his signet allows him to find and see memories; which could help if they don’t wish to be found.

They are the balance.

[danii19]

“Incase you haven’t figured it out by now…. I’m a sociopath” - Kai Parker

[avi-illustration]

Got around to doing a more proper ref sheet for this guy + he has a name now :] a bit on the nose but that seems par for the course in Transformers lol

What I've currently got going for him is that Siphon is a pretty small Predacon compared to most of them, only coming up to about Megatron's shoulders. Brute strength isn't his thing - his cannon and bite force in Alt mode are his highest-damage weapons, but he focuses more on strengthening his allies and weakening bigger enemies with toxins and lacerations until he can capture them and finish them off. Smaller opponents that he can grapple outright are in danger of his ambushing capabilities and are safer out in the open.

[paradiecircus]

I came up with a Bonkai idea that I could see myself supporting (even tho Kennett will ALWAYS be my fave!)

I hope you guys will be as excited about it as I am, it’s my new baby 🖤🖤🖤

[sergedevries]

Soda siphon green.

Oil paint on wood.

Original artwork.

21 x 16 cm. / appr. 8.3 x 6.3 in.

[wickedsrest-rp-archive]

Name: Raul Moreno Martín Species: Spellcaster Occupation: Surveyor Age: 27 Years Old Played By: Tapir Face Claim: Miguel Bernardeau

"Miss one sigil and you’ll transmute yourself into flesh furniture. No pressure, initiate."

Raul had been destroying evidence and dodging questions from other local covens for a year since the Pacto Áurico’s grand experiment unleashed a shockwave in Toledo’s astral plane like an earthquake thundering through an ocean trench. Yet, Raul hadn’t gotten better at answering those questions for himself, He couldn't even be sure if the ritual had failed, or if sheer audacity had left them unprepared for the consequences of actually succeeding. 

Within the gilded and hushed halls of the Pacto Áurico, or Auric Covenant, Raul had learned what the masses called ‘magic’ was just chaotic energy humans could force in useful patterns through equivalent sacrifice and ritualized formulas the ignorant called ‘spells.’ Raul initially didn’t find it weird that his mother visited distant worlds in her dreams or that dad and grandpa never met an ominous artifact they didn’t immediately adore.   

But the divide between the occult and outside eventually hit as he tried to divide time between, school, friends, sports, parties, hobbies, love, and his parent’s arts. Each deeper circle of thaumaturgy required exponentially more time to decipher, experiment, and refine. Some rites even required Raul to offer up parts of his inner self. Raul loved his friends and day life, but each new intoxicating rush of unnatural power seemed to sweep him farther out to sea.   

Years later, Raul had descended with his squad of the ritual teams beneath the arches of San Ginés and into the Caves of Hercules and the forbidden Casa de los Candados beneath Toledo. The Auric Covenant’s path of shaping chaos through rites and sacrifice had forged Raul into a formidable sorcerer, but demanded such all-consuming focus that Raul had been more concerned on proving himself than questioning whether the coven’s latest grand ritual had gone too far. It was only after archeological layers of Castilian, Almohad Caliphate, Visigoth, Roman, and ancient Iberian ruins gave way to alien architecture that was already ancient in humanity’s stone age that Raul began to realize the enormity of what the Auric Covenant’s inner circle intended. But by then, reality was already bleeding.   

All Raul knew for certain was that the cascading vortex left more than just physical wounds on those who’d survived a desperate attempt to stabilize that massive imbalance of energy. As they’d all picked up the pieces and tried to remake the wards and magical reservoirs that’d been destroyed by the ritual’s backlash, Raul slowly realized something leeching his lifeforce after each invocation or transmutation. It was tiny at first, but like internal bleeding, seemed to rip deeper the more power he wielded. None of his family and friends seemed to be faring any better, each with their own individual scars and consequences. Raul chose to focus on helping his family and coven rebuild to avoid the deepening questions. A long trail of false leads and failed cures eventually lead to a magically rich locus on America’s east coast, just one more short stop before everything went back to normal.

Character Facts:

Personality: Bold, loyal, ambitious, ingenious, cagey, grasping, warped, disillusioned

Raul rarely drops his guise as a cheekily clueless civilian fixated on maps, swimming, and evil buildings.

Raul tends to have cycles of intense hyper-achievement followed by crashing and burning.    

Pop culture references and social subtlety tends to bounce off Raul’s skull.   

Raul doesn’t care about the species or morality of business associates. Only the mission matters.     

Raul excels at the precise geometric patterns needed for occult diagrams, but is otherwise a terrible artist whose class presentations gained infamy for being unintentionally surreal.   

Raul received a wound to the soul during a ritual.  

[lilitaqa]

Untangling the Siphon Merge: Answering the "How Do They Even…?

Question:

So. Question about The Merge. Well, for the girls anyways, so. They’re siphoners. Meaning they siphon, of course, and that means they have no magic of their own and have to take it from someone or something else. If they need magic in order to do the spells. How can they Merge if they don’t have magic? Because. Wouldn’t they just absorb or siphon it from each other, I mean. How do they tell who’s strongest. Even though we already know. I’m just not sure how it works for them. Help? Explain maybe? 😊

Ughhh... well, this is gonna be long.

So, as far as I remember from the show (which I watched a long time ago and there might be some pretty big inaccuracies), the Gemini coven works like this: in each generation, the leaders of the coven must be twins who, at 22 (or 21, but let's take 22), have to perform a ritual called the Merge during a celestial event. The mandatory criterion for this ritual is that they absolutely MUST be twins, and that's it.

As I understood it, at birth (most likely only in this coven, but we haven't met other witch twins) their magic is kinda shared but split between two people, and thanks to this ritual, it gets collected into one, making the winner of this Merge much stronger and their magic more stable. Well, that's exactly how I understood this concept, because it might be different, and it's just two witches whose magic gets collected into one person, like in a harvest, but it's more stable because they're twins, but in the end, the winning witch still becomes much stronger.

So, when this ritual ends, all the lives of the Gemini coven members get tied to the new leader, meaning the winner of the Merge.

In this coven, there's a chance that a special kind of witch might appear who has no magic of their own but can absorb it from external sources. It's very rare, but it happens. It's unknown if siphons can appear outside this coven, but all the siphons we know came from it.

The siphons themselves, as I already said, have no magic of their own but can absorb it from outside their body, meaning from other supernatural beings, magical objects (so, cursed ones), enchanted places, etc. This makes them simultaneously powerful and relatively weak without an energy source (magic).

And what's important is that they have a one hundred percent chance of winning the Merge against a witch opponent because they'll immediately suck out all the magical power from their opponent during the Merge.

But the problems start when two siphons fight in the Merge. This is exactly the headache you gave me (I thought about this damn Merge for several hours) with your question, because all the concepts I laid out (namely, the two most logical ones, and everything else stems from them, and only the craziest Merge theories go down a different path which is totally unclear) say that the Merge for two siphons is completely impossible.

If you say that they just need to pull magic from outside and then start the Merge ritual, I'll wanna break your neck and say that it makes no sense because that's magic they pulled from something else, it's not their opponent's magic, it's foreign.

Or maybe you'll say that they assimilate the energy, and after they've absorbed it, it becomes theirs, but that also makes little sense because even if they assimilate that magic, it doesn't change the fact that it won't become the magic they got at birth

(So, witches in their universe have innate magic in their bodies; it regenerates on its own, it's theirs from birth, and they can increase it through training. In their bodies, there's an overall, let's say, limit (which can increase), and their magic regenerates to this limit during rest, while the magic in siphons is simply absorbed by them; it's just placed in a flask (which, if you think about it, might itself be this same limit, which can also increase if it's constantly subjected to heavy filling) which runs out and gets refilled through using magic and absorbing more. It's not the same as with witches, and the opponent sucking out all their magic shouldn't kill the siphon, just deplete them of all accumulated magic!)

Аnd when it's taken away in the battle of will and magic during the Merge, their flask would just become empty, and it would simply wait to be refilled from another source later, not kill them! And of course, this isn't their innate power that needs to be taken in this ritual! Even if you consider it "their" magic after absorption, it's still like pouring all the liquid out of a flask – the flask remains a flask even without water.

The loser would still survive unless the ritual itself implies the automatic death of one of them (which is sad), and that still wouldn't give the winner ANYTHING, because the magic they both absorbed could have been absorbed by one person alone without losing a twin in the process.

You could just say that this ritual for siphons would increase the volume of how much they could absorb without harming themselves, but that's weird because it's still unclear how exactly the ritual is supposed to work, because my sanest thought about how they could increase the flask's volume is how they exchanged magic with each other during the battle, trying to absorb way beyond their limits since both were almost full to the brim.

And during this battle, their limit itself would increase rapidly (though it would probably be very painful and harmful). Or they could try to absorb some kind of spark that made them siphons, but that's in the realm of crazy thoughts that are unclear how to implement.

We reject the first option because they could do that without this ritual, just maybe without such strong loads on their limit.

Oh, and yes, I already said that the most logical option in this whole situation would be for Lizzie and Josie to just NOT use the Merge ritual.

Because listen up, sweethearts, it's not mandatory. Yeah, I don't know about Legacies season 4, but in The Vampire Diaries, it's clear that the ritual itself is needed to find a new coven leader so you don't die when the previous leader gets old.

And even if you think that the consequences didn't catch up with Jo and Kai because one voluntarily stripped themselves of magic and the other got stuck at one age, that wouldn't be very logical because when Kai got out of the prison, the consequences should have dogged him until he merged with Luke. So that's all a hypothetical situation.

And since the previous coven leader is dead, they don't need a new leader to avoid dying. (Maybe I missed something because I didn't really watch season 4 of Legacies properly, I barely watched it, but whatever happens there should fit into this framework.) So from this, we should understand that the Merge ritual should have either not worked or thrown a system error. And that it most likely could not happen after 22. And most likely, Julie Plec really did mess things up.

(And seems like my obsession with siphons is back.)

(Oh, and yeah, I didn't know how to start this sentence with this parenthesis, so I'm writing with it, but most likely during the Merge, it's not just magic that gets absorbed, but also a part of the magic wielder's essence, which technically doesn't change things that much because it's an addition to the magic which is part of the witch's very core. So if you think about it that way, the magic carries a pretty strong imprint of the one it was in, which is exactly why Kai developed the ability to feel things from Luke.

Hmm... Still, this can be chalked up to precisely that and not to some life force whose traces of gain/loss we don't see.)

So they absolutely cannot perform this ritual in any way without some huge failure. And if it does determine who's stronger, it's only by how much magic they can absorb while resisting the siphoning of what they'd absorbed before.

And that would be a battle of will, like I already said. Also, it's about how much magic they can hold in their flask without bursting, because it would definitely be more than they had before and beyond their limit. Well, like I said before, they could do that without the ritual to practice siphoning (or whatever it's called).

So it's IMPOSSIBLE. And yes, Julie Plec most likely ruined the canon.

Thank you so much for your attention, and I hope you enjoyed what I wrote. ❤️💗❤️

[postcard-from-the-past]

Siphon of the factory of L'Argentière, Alpine region of France

French vintage postcard

[fuckyeahfluiddynamics]

Breaking Down a Water-Powered Timer

In his latest "cutaway" video, Steve Mould takes a look at how you can nest siphons to create a system that periodically flushes itself.  (Video and image credit: S. Mould) Read the full article

[violentdelightshavevioletends]

Chapter 57-60 (so much is happening I’m just making a bullet point list of me screaming about things as I read) ❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

Onyx Storm SPOILERS

CHAPTER 57

There’s something about the fact that Xaden doesn't sit in the Throne of Tyrrendor during the “meeting of chaos & war strategy debates” in Chapter 57... like; he's not sitting, not resting or just watching, he isn’t doing it like a King who’s never seen war first hand choosing from a towers safety; he’s doing it like a soldier, as someone who will be on the front lines beside them, and thus discusses it with them as such (on all levels; giving space for the lowest voices to be heard, for equal among the rebels, even against other leadership in higher stations). And in that holding his command among them with such powerful ease to the claim simply because of how he holds himself; he doesn’t need a throne or symbol or higher seat to be the leader he is… so idk… gonna go fan myself now.

Brennan saying OUR sister

How dare Theophanie even suggest Jack as his brother… and remind me of Liam again like that cause ow😭💔

Sloane going after Dain and him just taking the punches yet her listening… I’m watching them🫢

Melgren wouldn’t see the rebellion though👀👀

Xaden does have a point; her in danger is him in danger.

Not the “worse than dying” trope. NO!

Okay, this planning accepting ahead of time is actually pretty smart😂 yes Violet will of course save Mira, obviously Xaden is going after her, let’s just get that out of the way; even Brennan says it for himself going for Mira too.

CHAPTER 58

But Violet is both cadet and scribe…

The way Tairn assures her of her choice because he followed, he knows🥲

Aaric is there again… maybe cause he saw what Melgren didn’t? Hmm… I’m watching you Rebecca

Too soon to rub in the Andarna thing! “The Irid we lost”😭 she’s NOT lost she’s just gone for a bit AND COMING BACK

I mean… she didn’t say what brother lol ;-)

Lmao I misread the “runed” armoire as RUINED and thought it was from the first book spice🤣

NO, NOT ANOTHER complicated wording again! WAIT FUCK NO LIAR NONONO

MIRA NONONONONONONOOOO (I swear my eyes bugged out😱 and heart fell🖤 on that final line😭 of Chapter 58) NOT MIRA! NO. FUCKING. WAY. MALIK YOU CANT HAVE HER!!! NOT MIRA!!! YOU WILL NOT DIE TODAY!

CHAPTER 59

Please tell me this is a bad dream😅… a really bad dream walking moment?😭

Well, at least even the Venin also want Jack dead… guess we all agree on that!🙄

Hehe I’m sobbing🫥☠️

Xaden protecting them while Brennan and Violet try to save Mira and it’s killing me because is he fighting for them to have time knowing they’ll find a way or is this him giving them the last seconds they have together😭 and Tairns voice to her giving her descriptions so she doesn’t turn taking care of everything so she’s safe there for a second😭(and she knows it)😭

SLOANE BABE DON’T YOU DARE DIE — REBECCA WHY DID YOU GIVE ME A LIAM APOLOGY RIGHT NOW CUZ I’M ALREADY DYING HERE

NO! DAMMIT! NOT A REPEAT OF BRENNAN DRAINING HIMSELF TO DEATH!😭 WE ARE NOT LOSING ANY SORRENGAILS TODAY (let alone two) I FORBID IT!!!

How much are we trusting Aetos these days? lmao but damn what did he see😅😭👀🫥

No… Brennan saying sorry to VIOLET because he knows this will kill her… no nonono

Sloane’s full circle of saving a Sorrengail🥺😭🥹

Dain you just got points for letting her hate you, so long as Mira lives

NO MORE SECRETS (for real this time)?!

“God don’t I know it” — okay Dain and Sloane I see you… idk how I feel here but age; wait is Sloane only a year younger than Vi? I guess that’s the same as Xaden and Violet then… okay maybe? The fact he took her punches, is that the mark earlier?🥺😭🥹

Umm… so Sloane said Dain has more power than he should; does that mean something bad? Venin? Or like she doesn’t trust him to have power and it’s a political statement?

You are NOT a weapon😭

Brennan you are a miracle worker *breaths finally*

Me screaming at Rebecca for scaring me like that again over MIRA of all people (after the Ridoc incident I CANNOT ANYMORE… but also scare me and bring them back don’t leave them gone I can’t do it after Liam and every mention of that hurts enough so also stop hurting them)

OMG WAIT… the marks are gone after Sloane… the marks that sounded almost like Venin? Can Sloane heal Venin?? — What marks were on Dain and Brennan; did they all mark runes or something? Why does Dain grab his good wrist?

lol😂🫶I love Sloane🖕👍

I wish we had more Sloane and Liam… well… anything🥹

War zone mail… really?

Hehe Dain there’s a lot of explanations we all need😅

DO. NOT. TURN.

“ONLY EVER YOU”

WHAT PROMISE??

Sgaeyl and Violets nod of “protect them” agreement 🤝

“The Duke of Angst” 🤣🤣🤣

Yeah… another problem adds up😅😅😬 these final 10 chapters are CRAZZZYYYY

CHAPTER 60

Yeah the stubbornness always proves true…

The way Tairn almost broke dragon law for Violet because he wouldn’t leave her🥺

A rider a weapon — second year indeed

“Magic requires balance”

… who’s faster?? — ya know what I don’t wanna know

Fuck they regenerate?🤦‍♀️ Great.💀

“The same as shadows” — fuck. … command needs to not notice that please

lol Violet using the tree thrown at her to her advantage as a cover👏

… what is she supposed “accept”?

WHO IS SHE TALKING ABOUT?!?

OMG. YES. BODHI 👏counter it👏

Her mother was the balance to THEOPHANIE… this is so much worse fighting essentially… her mother

Wait wait wait… what balance does Violet break?

LILITH FOUGHT THEOPHANIE BEFORE?!?

“Dunne” — that one now… intrigue.

It isn’t her… but it’s Rhi!!! —

— POV SHIFT — let’s go TEAMWORK TIME!!! (I love our girl so much🥹) THE BEST OF US — now no dying OKAY?!

CHAPTER 61; here I come with the energy of I ain’t gettin no sleep cause of you talk ain’t gettin no sleep cause of me; THEOPHANIE

❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌

[the-arcade-doctor]

heres my best approximation of your boy

take 'em !

my son!!!

[rowancampbell-author]

What oc is the craziest and which is the meanest?

Oh thank you for asking!

I would say Ari from Bloodlines is the meanest; though she holds back a lot, she can be very sardonic and cruel. She lashes out sometimes since she compartmentalizes all her terrible feelings until she can't anymore and explodes. She's working on emotional balance 👏.

Siphon from The Godkiller is craziest. He has psychosis from trauma: the many years of psychological and genetic experiments at the hands of some scary people. 😨

[themoonwitches]

Have you ever wanted to make your own energy siphon? Freshly dropped pine needles make the best weaving material, and it’s full of naturally siphoning energy of its own. As you braid each strand, and as you add the strands together, imagine yourself staring into the void and the void opening up inside your siphon. When you’re done, you can use it to cleanse crystals, and your overall environment.

[brawlertech]

Darkus Nano Siphon | Evolutions

[postcard-from-the-past]

Siphon of the factory of L'Argentière, Alpine region of France

French vintage postcard