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NORTHERN EXPOSURE
3.13 Things Become Extinct
#things become extinct#nx 3x13#un medico tra gli orsi#northern exposure#ausgerechnet alaska#doctor en alaska#dante alighieri#chris in the morning#chris stevens#john corbett#nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita mi ritrovai per una selva oscura ché la diritta via era smarrita#quotes
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What i could write a paper on tho is the parallels between the divine comedy and dmc, i genuinely believe this
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saturday night, me in my pjs with the heart of my heart (my cat), eating lentil soup while listening to aphex twin and reading some pretty good stuff: perfection.
#once you cross the rubicon of your 30s life gets shittier by the minute#but you also really start NOT giving a shit about anything really#it ain't much but it's honest work#it's no coincidence that jesus siddharta dante all these big minds had some kind of revelation around 33-35yo#thriving in the selva oscura bitches
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TRIKARANOS CHAPTER II: THRESHOLD (part 1)
TRIKARANOS is a dramatized narrative based on ancient events following Crassus (and Pompey and Caesar) through the years 87-48 BCE. Intended for an adult audience.
SO! Chapter 2 clocked in at over 20 pages, which means I'll be posting it in batches of like, five or six pages as I finish lettering because trying to format 20 pages in a single photoset is a nightmare and I'm not going to do that lmao
⭐ Trikaranos will always be free to read. In the near future, you’ll have the option to support this comic & my ability to spend time making it through Patreon! currently, I have a tip jar!
⭐ There is no set update schedule (chapters vary in length and will be posted as I finish working on them)
⭐ alternative places to read it (coming soon!)
CREDITS all additional art used are in the public domain, and the specific images used are open access, etc
📌 The Mouth of a Cave, Hubert Robert
📖 PREVIOUS CHAPTER | START HERE | ToC (under construction!)
UNDER THE CUT entirely optional: the creator’s commentary, ancient citations, stuff I thought was neat, etc.
on the topic of legendary ancestors and gods and heroes, T.P. Wiseman's Legendary Genealogies in Late-Republican Rome is a really fun read
also have you ever noticed that caves are fucking weird. like. what's up with caves. however: caves perform the same function as a forest (and a maze)
Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,
ché la diritta via era smarrita.
-Dante, Divine Comedy
(it's a transformative journey) (a transformative underworld journey, even!)
speaking of which. parents. brothers. oof. can't think too hard about how crassus grew up eating meals with his whole family otherwise I'll feel like I have to walk into the woods and start screaming.
Sophocles’ Antigone (trans. Ruth Fainlight & Robert J. Littman) / Catullus 101 (trans Anne Carson)
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Why there can only be one - a Limbus Theory
Massive Canto 6.2 spoilers
So... Canto 6.2, amirite?
After I stopped having a screaming fit over voice chat and got myself to actually sit down and mull things over, my mind kept coming back to the ending of this part's final fight against Heathcliff(?).
As they have done numerous times already, Projmoon brings in our relevant Sinner's personal E.G.O. in the most emotionally high moment creating an iconic scene.
But... wait a minute.
The E.G.O. does not make sense.
Like, think about it. Since Limbus started, people have been speculating about what's in the Bodysack, one of the biggest theories being Cathy's corpse.
But our Heathcliff never had his revenge quest. He hasn't killed anyone from the Earnshaws or the Edgars until Hindley distorted!
So why the heck does he have a sack of bodies of (presumably) his enemies. And why is the final attack of Heathcliff(?)'s fight in the cemetery?
Heath wasn't there when Cathy died. He didn't go to her grave. He did not swear revenge on everyone and anyone who caused him and her suffering.
Not yet.
But... we do see someone who did, don't we? Dear old "Matt".
He is the book accurate Heathcliff. He's stood vigil while Cathy lay dying, he followed suit by destroying everyone and everything of the Earnshaws and the Edgars, and now he's on a self-destructive suicide quest of killing every last version of himself for causing Cathy's death.
The E.G.O. fits him much more than it does our Heathcliff, doesn't it?
So... why does Heathcliff have it?
This was the beginning of a rabbit hole (pun intended). Let me state plainly my point and then elaborate:
My theory is that our Heathcliff has been suffering from "identity bleed-through" since perhaps even before joining Limbus Companny, all due to the existence of "Matt" in the same universe as him.
"Matt" is outright called an Identity, meaning he's an alternate reality version of Heathcliff, a more book accurate version, as I remarked earlier.
He presumably finished his revenge quest until he was the last one left, but then he discovered, by some means, that alternate realities exist and that he can access them.
We do not know who showed him that technology or for what purpose, but regardless of those factors, that must've been the breaking point at which self-destruction became a hunt.
He says he's seen Hindley die multiple times, multiple ways.
He's a reality hopper, using his access to this technology (supplied to him by we don't know who) to play this act out again and again, until he's had his revenge.
How would this affect our Heathcliff, tho?
Let's consider the ImplicationsTM.
Wehave known since Selva Oscura how Identities work - you borrow a person's alternate reality self for a little while, letting them overwrite memories and take over the body.
Faust even calls it a transformation:
But notice how she specifies something rather important: they have a system to ensure the Sinners can use Identities safely. That they, quote, don't lose control over their own existence.
And even this system can be faulty, as Dante remarks in their note:
Faust knows this process is risky, that the lines can easily blur, and we know just how much damage this can cause because Leviathan outright shows us the psychological and physical toll this process can have on a person.
We even see the same thing in Canto 6 itself, with the hundred glass containers filled with kidnapped people forced to experience numerous realities at once.
Some of them even turn into Peccatula because of it, and we fight those newly made monsters.
So experiencing other realities alone can harm you, change you without even realising it.
What would happen, then, if more than one identity existed in the same reality at the same time?
My theory hinges on the idea that these identities would not just count as two separate people, that is true. But let's go with that train of thought. It is just as likely an outcome (and it produces an interesting story!), and between all the magic-esque technology and the Light, it's possible that something would get messed up.
Two people where there is meant to be one, two very different lives, and reality cannot really allow that separation. Things would bleed through, they'd get all blurry and you wouldn't even know where the difference is.
We have Matt-cliff, an Identity who has travelled at least a few universes, in each carrying out a scheme to kill everyone who hurt Cathy, including that reality's Heathcliff. In the books, it takes him his entire adulthood to carry out his plans. He's persistent, and thorough. In Limbus, he's had to arrive, kidnap several dozens of people (maybe with the help of the Ring, since they seem to be funding all of this research), re-establish the Wild Rabbits, get Hindley's trust, get hired, and scheme this reality's revenge plot.
That would have taken weeks if not months of prepwork. You don't just snap your fingers and have it all done.
I posit that Matt has been a factor for the past several months that Heath has spent, in universe, as part of Limbus company, if not longer. Throughout this time, their shared existence in this reality has caused their experiences, memories, and emotions to mix. And that isn't just my conjecture, we see that Heathcliff is indeed experiencing alternate universe memories we he starts to Distort and we (and Dante) see him see Mattcliff's grief.
[Thank you to my buddy @firestorm09890 for pointing this out to help me solidify this theory]
The way I see it, Bodysack is that.
A memory and an emotion of a reality travelling bloodhound imprinting itself on Heathcliff. It was foreshadowing his existence, it was staring us in the face that something is not right. The influence of another self can lead a person to corrupt and Heath had a slow trickle of it for nearly a year.
So... maybe it wasn't as surprising that he is our first Distorted Sinner.
I can't really see how it'd make sense in universe Heath has it otherwise, and I know Projmoon to be meticulous planners so I doubt this is an oversight on their part.
Guess we'll have to see next Thursday when 6.3 comes out and breaks me into tiny bits.
Anyway thanks for coming here to read this longass post.
#limbus canto 6 spoilers#limbus company#limbus theory#limbus canto vi spoilers#heathcliff lcb#healthcliff limbus#heathcliff
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The non english version based on the notes of the other poll (translations are not mine. Apologies for any inaccuracies)
Update: I realize after i made it i put the same Don Quixote quote twice but i cant edit polls so 4 and 9 are the same. oops
update 2: I accidentally put the first line of ch 1 instead of the first line of the prologue for Posthumous Memoirs. the correct quote is "Ao verme que primeiro roeu as frias carnes do meu cadáver dedico como saudosa lembrança estas memórias póstumas".
Translations and sources:
– Iliade by Homer. (“Sing, goddess, of the anger of Achilles, son of Peleus”)
Anna Karenina by Lev Tolstoy ("All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.")
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. ("Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.")
Cervantes from Somewhere in La Mancha by Don Quixote, (“In a place whose name I do not care to remember")
The Aeneid. ("I sing of arms and men")
The Metamorphosis by Kafka ("As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.")
the Inferno by Dante ("When halfway through the journey of our life")
The Stranger by Albert Camus. (Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can’t be sure”.)
Miguel de Cervantes by Don Quixote (“Somewhere in la Mancha, in a place whose name I do not care to remember, a gentleman lived not long ago, one of those who has a lance and ancient shield on a shelf and keeps a skinny nag and a greyhound for racing.”)
the Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Machado de Assis ("to the worm who first gnawed on the cold flesh of my corpse, I dedicate with fond remembrance these Posthumous Memoirs")
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This one’s ~hand-dyed~! It’s a color I’m calling Una Selva Oscura & it’s completely impossible to replicate because I put random amounts of dye in some water!
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200+ eventtt
[for my 202 followers hkdfjfjdkekwdkkd thank you guysssss]
my intro post is here btw
ok so events [might add more later]:
send in asks with these titles and a description of what u want btw :)
call me by your name - ask me about Italian! I could translate smth into Italian basically I will be a more time-more effort google translate for you [also nothing too long pls] alternatively u could ask me stuff like my fav word or smth else idm [I haven’t thought this thru but it’s inspired by an event being done by a moot of mine and it seemed cool @fire-but-ashes-too - u shld go check her out bc she seems super cool]
Death’s apprentice - I recommend you books or movies or TV shows! [Title is inspired by the book Mort by Terry Pratchett btw :D] - for this one pls tell me what genre you prefer, fav trope etc etc
Selva oscura - I make you a mood board or I make a mood board about a book or TV show or movie etc [this might take some time especially if I don’t know the movie]
We’ll meet again - playlists!!! I make you a playlist that I think you’ll like [if I don’t know you very well then pls like tell me what ur vibe is] [THIS MIGHT TAKE SOME TIME]
ENDING TMRW <333
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Vorrei poter dire “e quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle”, ma sono ancora “per una selva oscura, ché la diritta via era smarrita”.
#frasi tumblr#frasi belle#frasi d'amore#frasi tristi#frasi tristezza#frasi citazioni#citazioni tristezza#tristezza#amore gay#gay#dante#stars#lost stars#star aesthetic#aesthetic grunge#pale aesthetic#sky#night sky#pale sky#blue sky#stelle#cielo
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Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita mi ritrovai per una selva oscura, eran tutti uomini della questura.
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"[The mid-life crisis] is at that mid-point in our personal continuum when our delicate lives hang in the balance. We look behind us to see how far we've come and we realize that our past isn't a solitary trail through secret woods but a vista as big and as expansive as the ocean itself with our experiences stretching to the horizon like tiny dot-like sailboats sucked up in the enormous sea.
Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita / mi ritrovai per una selva oscura / ché la diritta via era smarrita."
3x13 Things become extinct
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✎ "Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,
ché la diritta via era smarrita."
"Midway upon the journey of our life
I found myself within a forest dark,
For the straightforward pathway had been lost."
Watch the Timelapse ☞ here
Prints for this illustration are available here and here
#illustration#art#digital illustration#artists on tumblr#deer#forest#dark aesthetic#painting#digital painting#art print#Dante Alighieri#Dante’s inferno#divine comedy#spiritual
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𝓗𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓪
La tribu Huaorani, también conocida como Waorani o Waos, es un grupo indígena que reside en el este de Ecuador dentro de la selva amazónica. Esta tribu aislada, compuesta por aproximadamente 4.000 miembros, tiene una herencia cultural y lingüística única. Su idioma es distinto y no tiene relación con ninguna otra lengua conocida, incluido el quechua, que se habla comúnmente en Ecuador.
Debido a su antigua práctica de trepar a los árboles, una habilidad crucial para su forma de vida, los huaorani han experimentado adaptaciones físicas en sus pies. La tribu depende principalmente de la caza de monos y otros animales de caza menor utilizando lanzas y cerbatanas como principal fuente de alimento. La combinación de un acervo genético limitado, la exposición constante al entorno desafiante y la necesidad de trepar a los árboles ha resultado en el aplanamiento de sus pies. Algunos individuos dentro de la tribu incluso exhiben la presencia de seis dedos en cada pie y seis dedos funcionales en cada mano. Curiosamente, la estructura de sus pies sufre cambios con el tiempo, comenzando con los dedos rectos al nacer.
Vale la pena señalar que la tribu Huaorani no es el único ejemplo de adaptación humana a ambientes específicos. Ciertas tribus de Malasia, por ejemplo, han desarrollado la capacidad de permanecer sumergidas bajo el agua durante períodos prolongados para pescar perlas. Sus pulmones han evolucionado para procesar el oxígeno de manera más eficiente con el fin de respaldar esta actividad.
Además, la aparición de piel blanca en los primeros humanos que emigraron al norte de Europa puede atribuirse a la reducción de la luz solar en esa región. La piel blanca tiene una mayor capacidad de absorber vitamina D en comparación con la piel oscura, lo que facilita su producción a pesar de la poca luz solar.
En general, los pies humanos pueden volverse gradualmente más planos con el tiempo cuando se exponen a entornos comparables, ya que los dedos tienden a extenderse para proporcionar un mayor agarre y equilibrio.
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Listen/purchase: B. Where Are You? by Nebel lang
Este es el tiempo
Este es el tiempo
De la selva más oscura
Hasta el aire azul se ha vuelto rejas
Y hasta la luz del sol se ha vuelto impura
Esta es la noche
Densa de chacales
Pesada de amargura
Este es el tiempo en que los hombres renuncian.
Sophia de Mello
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Hiya bards!
Level 3 is characterized by tight platformer sections like this one! Apart from personally loving challenging platformers, I think this type of design reflects pretty well the Selva Oscura (dark forest) from Dante's Inferno's Canto I (chapter 1).
Enjoy, and have a magical day!
#gamedev#indiedev#indiegame#indiegamedev#godotengine#godot#platformer#madewithgodot#pixelart#platform#Dante#game design#game development
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