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i've been thinking about how irrigo and violant work recently. so of course i had to make diagrams about it

i don't think the plaque is like a literal tangible thing like it is on your tooth or in your blood vessels, but it's more of a residue that either snaps the synapses immediately and makes it impossible to reconnect the memory or builds up over time on the synapse and makes it harder to access a memory

"with resistance" in this case refers to someone who uses or has been exposed to irrigo frequently over an extended period of time. it works in the same way as drug/antibiotic resistance does in the sense that your synapses grow more resilient to the effects of the plaque and don't just immediately break. think of it like going from dental floss to rope

i also think violant can provide resistance too - in this way it would more likely cancel out the effects of the plaque and it's like placing a casing over your synapse, but at the same time now you have both a violant casing (with violant being impossible to erase so the casing is there basically forever whether it's effective or not) and irrigo plaque on your synapses so it's not something you can do repeatedly without eventually damaging the synapse and doing something fucked up to your memory

there's also potential for the buildup of irrigo and violant causing toxic shock in the brain in the same way foreign objects do - it's only in a long-term sense and if left unchecked the body will start attacking itself and engaging an immune response to remove the buildup, which will in turn inevitably damage, weaken or break the synapse entirely

the way to treat violant+irrigo buildup is with exposure to apocyan. in essence this has the ability to remove the plaque buildup and the casing, essentially breaking it off your synapses, and can help to heal any damage caused by an immune response or the synapse being freed from the casing and plaque. in this it would return the neuron to its natural, unaffected state, and the pathway would neither have the benefits or drawbacks of using violant or irrigo

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Velvet and Brocade Maternity Dress

c. 1888

Made by Mary G. Worley

Minnesota Historical Society

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by the way if you became a lion and look exactly like a lion to everyone else around you but you have no idea you're a lion or what a lion even is then is it fair for people to put you in the zoo and point at you while you suffer in a cramped and uncomfortable enclosure. do you deserve to suffer for innately being a lion even if you have no idea. just wondering

if you are put into a pit of lions do you think you are going to survive by fighting the lions? or are you going to get somewhere by becoming more threatening than the lions? are you going to scream as loud as you can and deter the lions from even thinking about attacking you?

do you feel more like a lion than yourself now? how much of you is a person, and how much of you is a lion? is the lion pit where you belong? were you fated to become a lion? did the lion pit change you? is the lion pit where you deserve to be?

were you a lion from the start, would you have been something else if you were never put into the lion pit, or were you going to be a lion no matter what choice you made? was your lionhood out of your hands? was it a higher power? was it something that happened to you? or was it just you?

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A black and gold silk brocade gown

late 1880s

Kerry Taylor Auctions

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I cannot relate to people who dislike female characters for “being manipulative.” She’s literally creative problem solving before your eyes. She’s literally just using her words. Maybe the other blorbos should be less pawn-like for her beautiful hands hmm

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this made me laugh probably more than it shouldchave

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my ms paint magic @thegreatyin

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bonus round: This thing from @thegreatyin

i accidentally locked in on an ms paint doodle so hard i made a master lineup

with a bonus marie for scale and some larger pics under the cut

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i accidentally locked in on an ms paint doodle so hard i made a master lineup

with a bonus marie for scale and some larger pics under the cut

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having many ocs is great. the downside is when you focus on one specifically, and then feel like youre a pet owner forgetting to feed the other nine that are looking up at you with sad round eyes and butting their heads into your calves

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if you are put into a pit of lions do you think you are going to survive by fighting the lions? or are you going to get somewhere by becoming more threatening than the lions? are you going to scream as loud as you can and deter the lions from even thinking about attacking you?

do you feel more like a lion than yourself now? how much of you is a person, and how much of you is a lion? is the lion pit where you belong? were you fated to become a lion? did the lion pit change you? is the lion pit where you deserve to be?

were you a lion from the start, would you have been something else if you were never put into the lion pit, or were you going to be a lion no matter what choice you made? was your lionhood out of your hands? was it a higher power? was it something that happened to you? or was it just you?

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Born #onthisday in 1838, theologian and schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, who in 1884 published the remarkable Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, perhaps the first ever example of “mathematical fiction”. More on the book here: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/aspiring-to-a-higher-plane #OTD

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That was an interesting turn of events

average day for the scoundrel @thegreatyin

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Guys did anyone just hear those bells toll

average day for the scoundrel @thegreatyin

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average day for the scoundrel @thegreatyin

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Mr. Wines invites you to behold The ECHO BAZAAR - London’s DAZZLING heart of COMMERCE AND DELIGHT. Observe as it ILLUMINATES the journey into a BRAVE NEW CENTURY.

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had this mostly done at the end of june but then art fight happened. so here we are a month later. wrinkly bat