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grocery store mission barely accomplished took massive damage to the hull and all internal systems. shield repair could take days
I love how varied and universally weird the circumstances for making lifelong friendships are. Here's this guy I accidentally messaged once and I could not imagine my life without them now. Here's this girl I was so scared of when I met her, I would kill for her and remind her to rest on the regular. Here's this other guy we have so much in common we used to joke we were the same person in different timelines. It took us years to meet in person and I attended his wedding. There are also people who entered my life in absolutely unremarkable ways but changed it forever for the better. It's wonderful how easy it is to find people to love.
This is the best post I have ever written, read the notes and be blessed by loving your friends magic
Bacteria do have souls, but binary fission doesn’t produce new souls 99% of the time, so most single celled organisms share these sprawling souls that just get bigger every time they divide. Over time they compact down into these big mats of soul get compacted into geological layers that gradually accrete to the world soul. Sexual reproduction creates new souls but they’re much shorter lived as a result, and rarely make it into the bedrock, so most of the world spirit is from the Proterozoic.
but do viruses have souls?
No. Some people think that this is because viruses have no metabolism and can’t reproduce on their own, and therefore do not qualify as life. In fact it is just because they are too small. Pneumatons, the constituent particle of soul, have a wavelength of about 1 micrometer, and so can’t be contained in cell membranes or protein envelopes smaller than that. This also means the smallest bacteria also don’t have souls. This includes mitochondria and their immediate ancestors, which was a major impetus for their symbiosis with eukaryotes in the first place. The eukaryote cell got a source of energy, and in return the mitochondria finally got to directly apprehend a portion of divine eternity.
this is super useful information, thank you!
FMA edward is a lot more morally complex and explicitly complicit than FMAB edward and i think it's a lot more interesting.
FMAB begins with edward already a state alchemist, discovering the corruption as he spends more time in. nina is a revelation after the fact. in FMA, the worldbuilding is much more aware that people do not like living in military dictatorships and suffer greatly under them. they're suspicious and hostile; "dog of the military" is actually an insult and edward is thrown out of an inn for being one, even if he's only 14. regarding nina, edward is staying with shou tucker while he studies for the state alchemist exam.
FMAB allows ed this vague notion of what prioritizing his goals over others' wellbeing by joining the military means, allows him to change his mind after seeing the real costs without necessarily giving up military research resources. FMA makes the corruption of the decision explicit. he decides to prioritize his goals and align himself with the military after nina. he makes that choice with nina at the forefront of his mind, with a recognition that he is violating his values and base morality for access to resources and research materials.
the shou tucker line is a lot more harrowing in FMA for a lot of reasons. in FMA, it represents very real parallels between ed and tucker, parallels partly constructed by a desire for knowledge and alchemical power and partly by the military dictatorship they live in, who owns that knowledge, what it's used for, and what is allowed in its pursuit.
Daily schedule:
- Wake up on the problematic side of the bed
- Eat a harmful breakfast
- Log onto tumblr and reblog posts from abusive mutuals
- Attend narcissistic classes
- Watch an irredeemable movie
- Listen to offensive music
- Eat a cancelled dinner
- Go to sleep derogatorily
- Have dreams that will have aged poorly by the time I wake up