Teeth gnasher, servo smasher, cryptid crank. Disillusioned cider punk who takes his dreams seriously and sometimes they come out as art in one form or another. Worldbuilder, concept artist and pen scratcher with an interest in the fantastical, the divine, scientific improbabilities and the sensual. I like my cars vintage, my mechs big, my fantasy dark, my stories fun, my characters deep and my music varied.
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Aside from certain unique components of her construction, what is most remarkable about Ulisafine here is that she is a (mostly) autonomous golem that has the ability to extrapolate, learn and mentally evolve. Instead of one simple animus matrix that supplies power and energy to her form, she has a second animus matrix entwined with it that is necromantic in origin and gives her what can only really be described as a “soul” and where her ability to have a sense of self comes from.
The Maester’s Circle has very clear outlines for what is universally considered “acceptable” animus practices. The use of soul energy/necromancy is not one of them. This is the primary reason whyMaester Sectoromis after he was discovered deactivated Ulisafine in a panic (the latter of which was simply confused and upset that her master was so flustered), put her in a special containment crate and had her shipped out of Aurum City. Once her master resumed another project in secret and found that planar rift, he sent out an awakening beacon that caused her to reactivate and wander the countryside, much of her memory and processing algorithms locked away so that she would not immediately come and search for him yet.
A Thu'Marath pair who had fled their home continent found her, the golem a bit battered and speaking about directives and looking lost. One of the Thu'Marath, named Vomauro, belonged to the hero guild The Circle and happened to be a friend of one of the guild members, the L'tahr inventor Topaz. He decided the best course of action was to travel across continents and drop the eccentric (but otherwise docile) golem at Topaz’s doorstep, because hey it’s not like he knows the first thing about glitchy magitech.
It’s been a few years since, Topaz did some major hardware overhauls to improve Ulisafine’s quality of life such as better, more extensive sensory arrays and balance augmentations. The golem has been learning steadily from Topaz and her family, witnessed a few battles and has since become somewhat of a sidekick of sorts. Recently though, her long lost master has finally returned from Nhorsis’ quantum domain.
Aside from certain unique components of her construction, what is most remarkable about Ulisafine here is that she is a (mostly) autonomous golem that has the ability to extrapolate, learn and mentally evolve. Instead of one simple animus matrix that supplies power and energy to her form, she has a second animus matrix entwined with it that is necromantic in origin and gives her what can only really be described as a “soul” and where her ability to have a sense of self comes from.
The Maester’s Circle has very clear outlines for what is universally considered “acceptable” animus practices. The use of soul energy/necromancy is not one of them. This is the primary reason whyMaester Sectoromis after he was discovered deactivated Ulisafine in a panic (the latter of which was simply confused and upset that her master was so flustered), put her in a special containment crate and had her shipped out of Aurum City. Once her master resumed another project in secret and found that planar rift, he sent out an awakening beacon that caused her to reactivate and wander the countryside, much of her memory and processing algorithms locked away so that she would not immediately come and search for him yet.
A Thu'Marath pair who had fled their home continent found her, the golem a bit battered and speaking about directives and looking lost. One of the Thu'Marath, named Vomauro, belonged to the hero guild The Circle and happened to be a friend of one of the guild members, the L'tahr inventor Topaz. He decided the best course of action was to travel across continents and drop the eccentric (but otherwise docile) golem at Topaz’s doorstep, because hey it’s not like he knows the first thing about glitchy magitech.
It’s been a few years since, Topaz did some major hardware overhauls to improve Ulisafine’s quality of life such as better, more extensive sensory arrays and balance augmentations. The golem has been learning steadily from Topaz and her family, witnessed a few battles and has since become somewhat of a sidekick of sorts. Recently though, her long lost master has finally returned from Nhorsis’ quantum domain.
I mean not to espouse baby boomer rhetoric that shits on millennials and minimizes our real problems but social media really can contribute to general unhappiness and exacerbate mental illnesses, among other things. Social media can be very good for connecting people and learning about new things and perspectives but its negative effects and aspects should also be a point of discussion among milennials and genZ more imo
One notable way this has affected a lot of young people is in a way of body dysmorphia. Last year, plastic surgeons reported an increase of what they call “Snapchat dysmorphia” where people want to get surgery to look like their faces with Snapchat filters on. Among this, it can also aggravate eating disorders for people.
There’s also the instant gratification that our generation has increasingly become used to which worsens our dependence on our various social media platforms and can greatly increase dissatisfaction when we don’t get new notifications or interactions with a post we make. Which may have a negative effect on people’s self esteem when their posts don’t get enough likes or desired attention.
Another thing I think that social media has done is that it has normalized a lot of otherwise alarming and rare things. For example, images of gore or videos of death are just not out of the ordinary anymore. I’m not saying it’s everywhere you turn but it’s just not exactly as shocking anymore because of how common it has become.
Additionally, I think that social media has also normalized advertisements. Advertisements used to be confined in very limited spaces: billboards, television, magazines and newspapers, and radios. But now they’ve become more pervasive and we’re increasingly desensitized to it. I mean look at Instagram, half your friends are trying to. Convince you to buy things under the guise of being an “influencer.” Your favorite youtubers are constantly selling you things and we’ve accepted this as just fairly normal. But imagine what people trying to sell you things looked like pre-social media? It was the Avon lady your mom avoided at supermarkets or the telemarketer you hung up on; it was less invasive and we could opt out.
And don’t even get me started on our data being harvested and used to finetune our advertisements. And this is getting increasingly accurate hence why there are times that you were just thinking about something and bam, you see an ad for it and it feels like they’re reading your mind. Nah fam, their profile on you is just so precise that it can almost predict what you’re thinking and it’s only going to get more precise.
Am I saying social media is flat out bad? No, I mean I’m posting this on a social media website, hoping to reach and interact with people on this matter. But what I am saying is that I feel like as people more directly affected by social media then previous generations, we should really start having more conversations about how it’s potentially negatively shaping our generation’s society and subsequent ones before it’s too late to change things
I love that you’ve brought this up and I really want this to be a big topic of discussion. People who write software and create systems like this are so concerned about what they can do and don’t necessarily think of how that impacts people. The systems work great— exactly as they are designed— and yet the impacts on the brain don’t matter as long as the software gets what it wants: attention.
I have no idea what relationship people will have with social media when they grew up with it surrounding them, to a degree we’ve never seen before. And I wish there were some guidelines to establishing healthy habits, because limiting time on the screen isn’t going to stop people from banking all of their emotions on that screen time. They need to learn how to see social media in a healthy way, and I don’t even know if I do that myself.
I think healthy usage starts with limiting the amount of platforms you’re active on as well as some greater self awareness and reflection or your usage of these platforms.
I like this view. If people wager less emotional energy into social media by understanding its insignificance compared to the real world, there’s less at risk for them if they feel like they don’t match the expectations they set for themselves on social media (looking like a Snapchat filter or getting a certain amount of likes on a post).
Also me, talking about how social media is disruptive, and having my post reblogged by someone I follow on social media:
You can discover your favourite band when you’re in your late twenties. You can meet your best friend when you’re in your thirties. You can finally accomplish a life goal when you’re in your fifties. Your youth isn’t the only time frame where amazing, life-changing things can happen.
Changes & more clear-cut perks being made starting February,
including reworking Technomagi to where you can cash in your pledge
amount for that year as credit for discounts on commissions instead!
i honestly think the healthiest way to have fun on social media is to find a group of friends and value them as people just as you’d do offline because in my experience fixating entirely on being an ‘internet presence’ with a huge follower base does really weird things to people
Another resolution I’m making this year is making more spontaneous gift art for friends because I did that a little last year and it felt good, want to make it more of a habit.
This is the year where I’m going continue where I started last year and come to terms with all the shit that’s wrong with me. For one, once I have a steady income I’m going to therapy. Not every problem I faced in the past that helped contribute to the trauma was my fault but damn I’m not making it easier for myself or that small handful of people that I’m close to that I still care about.
Also normally I dislike May, it’s when it gets all hot and sunny but this year I have a lot to look forward to then. I need to start affirming all the positives in my life and stop agonizing over those brief periods of pain and negativity lest it consume me entirely. And thankful for those people that give me infinite patience because I trip and fall on my face a lot. My first instinct is to run and isolate myself but that isn’t fair to myself or others, they don’t want me to do that and I don’t personally want to either. This is the year where I kick my overwhelming negativity bias and chronic anxiety in the ass and be a better friend and partner.
I only hope it isn’t too late for forgiveness, not just from other people but to forgive myself.
