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@archivistmyrya

🖤🩶🤍💜 25 An archivistics student, a Critter and just all-around nerd

i love it when incels and passport bros try to portrait slavic women as "traditional" and "submissive" because one of Czechia's most popular theatre plays is one about a young woman being forcibly married to a much older man who caused his earlier wife's death (spoilers from now on btw 😭) and when he keeps beating her and even tries to kill the man she loves, she decides to take action and fucking poisons him

(it's called Maryša for anyone interested, it's truly amazing)

ty tagy jsou moc dokonalé, aby zůstaly skryty

Third Person reassured us that there's more coming from the Midst Cosmos because they need to complete the pattern and tell a story where Sara's character dies, Matt's vanishes mysteriously into the Fold, and Xen's lives on forever changed by the things they have experienced

people got mad the last time i said this but you HAVE to stop pretending that people of the past were more intellectual and thoughtful and you need to model yourself after them because modernity pales in comparison. that's nazi shit

A Midst Cosmos Timeline

10.6.575 - Clara Mire kills Maximillian Loxlee in retaliation for (and in self-defense on account of witnessing) his murder of her mother that same day

584 - Emil Bernhard’s The Cosmography is published

598 - Stationary Hill is established

603 - the first Vermillion County Almanac is published

28.3.605 - Fuze breaks even

09.3.607 - the Fold Barons meet on Akute and sign the accord forming the United Baronies

XX.(1–3).612 - Tzila Guthrie is born in the Highest Light

XX.11.615 - the Black Candle Cabaret opens

(615–616) - Merlin Vot is born on Vairtige

616 - Everett Shearwater is born on Midst

XX.11.616 - Lark arrives on Midst

20.3.618 - 6-year-old Tzila does a school assignment about why she loves her dad

619 - Magdelyne and Nicholas Fleit breach and are killed by Olga Costigan, who is subesquently dismissed as Prime Consector for the Good of the Trust

620 - Weepe becomes co-owner of the Black Candle Cabaret

13.9.620 - the Guthries are officially marked as in Breach

623 - Sherman Guthrie begins working at the Black Candle Cabaret

36.10.624 - Demarin Ginsburg kidnaps Milton Fleit Jr. after failing to kidnap Senior Notary Milton Fleit Sr.

37.10.624 - Vermillion County Almanac Issue 54 is published

38.10.624 - Demarin Ginsburg is arraigned for Breach activities

40.10.624 - Kozma Laszlo responds to a letter from Weepe

42.10.624 - s1e7 “Scry”; Lark “reads” Ettie and Ellie’s fortune

37.11.624 - Midst’s moon falls into the Mediun, causing a massive tearror

624 - twins Nixie and Trixie Guilemoth are born to Baron Priska of Ebonreef

44.11.624 - s2e10 “Oversight”; special session of the Upper Trust to discuss Midst’s moonfall

05.12.624 - the New Vermillion County Almanac Issue 1 is published, post-moon tearror

07.12.624 - Jonas Spahr is court martialed and discharged as Prime Consector

10.12.624 - s3e7 “Tempest”; Kozma Laszlo dines with Imogen and Hieronymous Loxlee, Senior Notary Milton Fleit Sr., Archauditor Imelda Goldfinch, and Tripotentiary Moc Weepe, during which she reveals herself to be head of the Breach and the one responsible for Midst’s moonfall

16.12.624 - the Breach infiltrates and destroys Valor records and Valor and Caenum reserves in the Central Vault; Tzila and Sherman return to Stationary Hill to a welcome home party

(632–633) - Cleophee Guilemoth is born on the Islet of Guilemoth in the Ebonreef

(634–635) - Dot is born in the territory of Grendellieanne

(635–639) - the Stagecoach begins operation delivering cargo between the Un and the Fold; Micky and Everett hired as navigator and pilot

(640–643) - Everett and Micky go on their first date at Kiki’s Cantina

XX.(7–9).(644–653) - Everett and Micky marry

653 - Merlin is stationed at the Uppermost outpost for a ‘number of months’; he designs and constructs the Bocular Man

45.6.654 - the Ship of the Cosmological Consortium begins its voyage to the ends of the cosmos

I just need to gush about Unend and Third Person for a second. They are using audio to tell a story, yes, but they are able to deliver something so much more potent than that. They're capturing a FEELING (or many hundreds of feelings) and surrounding you with it and making you feel it to your very core. What it feels like to face your death with certainty, desolation, pure oblivion, and the tiniest hope for others but not yourself. To face mystery and darkness with certainty, with a profound reverence to cosmic cycles you can never control but only participate in. To feel like yourself despite a lifetime of doubting it, avoiding it, or having it denied to you. To be surrounded by a community of people that love you and each other and the place they live with ease and gusto. Third Person distills these feelings and turns them into sound waves and puts them out in the world for us to hear and I just have to say thank you!!!!

I do actually really like that we end off on not knowing what name the former Granddaughter chose as a Mother. Because the point they make when being acknowledged as a Mother is that Realization is not a singular thing; it is not a single moment of crystal clear understanding that can be met, it's the process of being open to listening to the world and understanding that which is around you. Realization is everywhere and everywhen, carried alongside a person so long as they open themself to it. Capping off with clear moment of the newest Mother picking a name would muddy the point that they and the larger episode are making, which is that everything is continuous and exists at once, and no single moment is more important than any other.

Third Person describing Felix's dancing as "cybergoth" activated this video in my brain like it was my sleeper agent code phrase:

Also, given how Felix's new leather-and-occasionally-spiked watch look is described, cybergoth might just be his look now and honestly, good for him. Travel to all known and unknown ends of the cosmos. See things beyond your wildest comprehension. Embrace nihilism in a hopeless situation. Get a hot professorial situationship. End it all by becoming a goth and revolutionizing your field of research and expertise