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1 year ago

Yeah okay that’s cool as fuck.

So like the ancestor created a fabric that is so versatile that it can clothe you fashionably throughout any season, heal your light and severe injuries, and indefinitely redecorate your house. Elected BBY and ABY Coolest Material, holy shit I need a Tensilveil onesie for this summer, the humidity is killing me.

More seriously now, I’m incredibly curious to hear more about the place that it takes in the universe. In my mind (and pushed by the fact that it gave the D’Vallors their place in the nobility), this has to be an insanely exclusive good, that only a very small percentage of people can offer themselves, but maybe is it the opposite ? I would love to know more about the D’Vallor family and their values : are they greedy businesspeople that created an empire around and for the richest, or philanthropists that wanted to insure comfort and safety for the greater number ? Bit of both ? Heroes to villains ? I’m curious as hell.

Also…

Serenno.

I must ask.

Is Dooku involved ?

From The Bad Batch S2 E1, we know that he is crazy rich and that he achieved his wealth through disregard for his people. The man doesn’t have a good guy track record anyway, but here I take it (deduce it but might be wrong) that the D’Vallor family is way older than his/him, that during his lifetime, they are well established and thriving. Would he reach out to them ? Try to make them his allies ? Adapt to them and follow their lead instead of his own for once ? Or avoid them and their world ?

OK I’m creating questions inside of a question now, but come on, this is super interesting !! What a cool piece of lore, it invites so many questions and digging, I want to know more !!

Thank you for the tag girl, I’m definitely in on that worldbuilding 🔥

Some more extensive worldbuilding to enrich my Star Wars enclosure. Today (tagging @fog-n-dance and @sithfox because you seemed intrigued by the idea of living fabric). Feedback and reblogs would be so much appreciated!

Tensilveil - The Living Fabric

Tensilveil is a living, breathing material that merges advanced synthetic technology with the natural adaptability of mycelium. Its strength, flexibility, healing ability, and modifiable attributes offer various applications, from fashion to medicine and architecture.

Origins and Creation

Tensilveil originates from the planet Serenno, home to the family D'Vallor, who holds the monopoly of the unique fabric. Many generations ago, they emerged as merchants specializing in fine textile fabrics. Their rise to immense wealth began with Kiran D'Vallor, who developed tensilveil. This living fabric, crafted from a durable mesh inoculated with mycelium, revolutionized the textile industry, giving House D'Vallor access to nobility and allowing them to ascend in social and political circles.

Structure and Technology

Tensilveil results from an engineered yet symbiotic relationship between modified mycelium strains and a synthetic mesh of Durathrix. The mycelium, a network of fungal threads, autonomously weaves through the Durathrix mesh, which, optionally, can be reinforced with other materials like armorweave.

Durathrix is developed to sustain and accommodate the mycelium. It incorporates an advanced nutrient system that ensures the health and vitality of the living component. Microscopic nutrient capsules embedded within the Durathrix threads release a balanced mix of essential nutrients like carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. Responsive polymers control the release rate, responding to environmental conditions such as temperature and humidity. Osmotic pumps ensure a consistent nutrient flow, keeping the mycelium well-fed and healthy.

Additionally, the mycelium can absorb nutrients from its surroundings. Embedded bacteria help break down complex organic materials into simpler compounds that the mycelium can utilize. The fabric also absorbs moisture from the air, aiding nutrient mobilization and supporting continuous growth and health.

Characteristics and Features

Tensilveil is a living organism, so it can heal and recover. When the fabric sustains minor damage, the mycelium grows and regenerates, restoring the fabric’s integrity. If the Durathrix mesh itself tears, the mycelium secretes a binding substance that acts like a biological glue, holding the torn edges together. It then grows new threads to weave through and around the damaged area, effectively mending the mycelium and the synthetic mesh.

Modifying the genetic coding of the mycelium allows the fabric to be tailored in texture, from soft and smooth to rugged and coarse. It can produce a variety of pigments, offering a wide range of colors without synthetic dyes. The fabric’s elasticity, rigidity, or plushness can also be adjusted to suit specific needs, making tensilveil versatile for many uses.

Tensilveil features a synthetic biological clock to manage its lifespan. It counts cell divisions to trigger aging and programmed cell death at a predetermined point. From a business perspective, this controlled degradation is a necessary feature to ensure reliable revenue by maintaining a cycle of replacement and repurchase.

Possible Applications

Fashion: The tensilveil's mycelium can be programmed to change colors in response to different light wavelengths, making it perfect for fashion. This feature can create spectacular effects for stage costumes or exquisite gowns, and practical applications like camouflage clothing. The color-changing ability is achieved through genetic adjustments that allow the mycelium to produce pigments that react to specific light wavelengths, offering aesthetic and functional benefits. Additionally, the fabric’s texture, elasticity, and plushness can be customized to create unique fashion pieces that are not only visually stunning but also comfortable and durable.

Medicine: In medical applications, tensilveil is particularly suited for bandages and artificial skin for extensive burns. The fabric's living nature allows it to conform closely to the skin, providing a breathable and comfortable barrier that supports healing. The mycelium can be genetically engineered to produce antimicrobial peptides, reducing the risk of infection and promoting faster recovery. Additionally, the fabric’s ability to absorb and retain moisture helps maintain a hydrated environment conducive to healing, while also allowing excess moisture to evaporate, preventing maceration of the skin.

For extensive burns, tensilveil can be used as an artificial skin. Its self-repairing capabilities mean the fabric can adapt and grow with the patient's skin, providing continuous protection and support during the healing process. The mycelium’s natural ability to promote tissue regeneration can be enhanced through genetic modifications, ensuring that the artificial skin not only protects but also actively contributes to the regeneration of the patient's own skin. This dynamic interaction between the fabric and the body enhances healing outcomes and improves the overall recovery experience for burn patients.

Architecture: Tensilveil can be used to create flexible, adaptive structures. Its self-repairing and regenerative properties make it ideal for use in buildings. Tensilveil can adapt to environmental conditions, providing thermal regulation to maintain stable indoor temperatures and moisture control to prevent humidity-related issues. The ability of Tensilveil to change colors can also be used to create dynamic, responsive facades that adjust their appearance based on the time of day or weather conditions. This makes Tensilveil a versatile material for architects looking to create innovative and visually stunning designs.

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2 years ago

Me duele la cabeza


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2 years ago

This thread was a rollercoaster ride from start to finish and now lives rent-free in our brain.

So the other night during D&D, I had the sudden thoughts that:

1) Binary files are 1s and 0s

2) Knitting has knit stitches and purl stitches

You could represent binary data in knitting, as a pattern of knits and purls…

You can knit Doom.

However, after crunching some more numbers:

The compressed Doom installer binary is 2.93 MB. Assuming you are using sock weight yarn, with 7 stitches per inch, results in knitted doom being…

3322 square feet

Factoring it out…302 people, each knitting a relatively reasonable 11 square feet, could knit Doom.


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2 years ago

obsessed with the german subreddit called Gittertiere (Lattice Animals) which is dedicated to posting pictures of abandoned shopping carts.

Obsessed With The German Subreddit Called Gittertiere (Lattice Animals) Which Is Dedicated To Posting

Brave lattice animal is blocking the entry to the nest of a tin-vroomer

Obsessed With The German Subreddit Called Gittertiere (Lattice Animals) Which Is Dedicated To Posting

Completely over-bred lattice animal. Is this still considered beautiful? … In my opinion, this is lattice animal abuse

Obsessed With The German Subreddit Called Gittertiere (Lattice Animals) Which Is Dedicated To Posting

This lattice animal is utterly tuckered out from waiting for their play mate


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2 years ago

So, okay, fun fact. When I was a freshman in high school… let me preface by saying my dad sent me to a private school and, like a bad organ transplant, it didn’t take. I was miserable, the student body hated me, I hated them, it was awful.

Okay, so, freshman year, I’m deep in my “everything sucks and I’m stuck with these assholes” mentality. My English teacher was a notorious hard-ass, let’s call him Mr. Hargrove. He was the guy every student prayed they didn’t get. And, on top of ALL OF THE SHIT I WAS ALREADY DEALING WITH, I had him for English.

One of the laborious assignments he gave us was to keep a daily journal. Daily! Not monthly or weekly. Fucking daily. Handwritten. And we had to turn it in every quarter and he fucking graded us. He graded us on a fucking journal.

All of my classmates wrote shit like what they did that day or whatever. But, I did not. No, sir. I decided to give the ol’ middle finger to the assignment and do my own shit.

So, for my daily journal entries, over the course of an entire year, I wrote a serialized story about a horde of man-eating slugs that invaded a small mining town. It was graphic, it was ridiculous, it was an epic feat of rebellion.

And Mr. Hargrove loved it.

It wasn’t just the journal. Every assignment he gave us, I tried to shit all over it. Every reading assignment, everyone gushed about how good it was, but I always had a negative take. Every writing assignment, people wrote boring prose, but I wrote cheesy limericks or pulp horror stories.

Then, one day, he read one of my essays to the class as an example of good writing. When a fellow student asked who wrote it, he said, “Some pipsqueak.”

And that’s when I had a revelation. He wanted to fight. And since all the other students were trying to kiss his ass, I was his only challenger.

Mr. Hargrove and I went head-to-head on every assignment, every conversation, every fucking thing. And he ate it up. And so did I.

One day, he read us a column from the Washington Post and asked the class what was wrong with it. Everyone chimed in with their dumbass takes, but I was the one who landed on Mr. Hargrove’s complaint: The reporter had BRAZENLY added the suffix “ize” to a verb.

That night I wrote a jokey letter to the reporter calling him out on the offense in which I added “ize” to every single verb. I gave it to Mr. Hargrove, who by then had become a friendly adversary, for a chuckle and he SENT IT TO THE REPORTER.

And, people… The reporter wrote back. And he said I was an exceptional student. Mr. Hargrove and I had a giggle about that because we both knew I was just being an asshole, but he and the reporter acknowledged I had a point.

And that was it. That was the moment. Not THAT EXACT moment, but that year with Mr. Hargrove taught me I had a knack for writing. And that knack was based in saying “fuck you” to authority. (The irony that someone in a position of authority helped me realize that is not lost on me.)

So, I can say without qualification that Mr. Hargrove is the reason I am now a professional writer. Yes, I do it for a living. And most of my stuff takes authorities of one kind or another to task.

Mr. Hargrove showed me my dissent was valid, my rebellion was righteous, and that killer slugs could bring a city to its knees. Someone just needs to write it.


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2 years ago

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2 years ago
Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong
The Huffington Post
For decades, the medical community has ignored mountains of evidence to wage a cruel and futile war on fat people, poisoning public percepti

"For 60 years, doctors and researchers have known two things that could have improved, or even saved, millions of lives. The first is that diets do not work. Not just paleo or Atkins or Weight Watchers or Goop, but all diets. Since 1959, research has shown that 95 to 98 percent of attempts to lose weight fail and that two-thirds of dieters gain back more than they lost. The reasons are biological and irreversible. As early as 1969, research showed that losing just 3 percent of your body weight resulted in a 17 percent slowdown in your metabolism—a body-wide starvation response that blasts you with hunger hormones and drops your internal temperature until you rise back to your highest weight. Keeping weight off means fighting your body’s energy-regulation system and battling hunger all day, every day, for the rest of your life.

The second big lesson the medical establishment has learned and rejected over and over again is that weight and health are not perfect synonyms. Yes, nearly every population-level study finds that fat people have worse cardiovascular health than thin people. But individuals are not averages: Studies have found that anywhere from one-third to three-quarters of people classified as obese are metabolically healthy. They show no signs of elevated blood pressure, insulin resistance or high cholesterol. Meanwhile, about a quarter of non-overweight people are what epidemiologists call “the lean unhealthy.” A 2016 study that followed participants for an average of 19 years found that unfit skinny people were twice as likely to get diabetes as fit fat people."

A surprising article to find on the Huffington post. I think, especially towards the end, there's still a saturation of healthism and diet talk (just of the "clean eating" variety), but the information about weight discrimination is absolutely on point, especially within the medical field ignoring decades of research.

Not only do we know that weight loss isn't sustainable or possible, we also know that weight discrimination kills, in a myriad of ways. If you actually care about "health" then start unlearning your weight bias NOW and realize that fat people are just people who are a different shape.

And this article doesn't even touch on "the obesity paradox"(the fact that fat people survive heart attacks and injuries BETTER THAN thin people) or the fact that dieting, especially "yo-yo dieting," is a better predictor for heart disease than weight, and that many of the fat people who have cardiovascular diseases have a long history of dieting that (understandably) didn't work.

encouraged to rb but fatphobes will just be blocked.


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2 years ago

male gaze is not 'when person look sexy' or 'when misogynist make film'

death of the author is not 'miku wrote this'

I don't think you have to read either essay to grasp the basic concepts

death of the author means that once a work is complete, what the author believes it to mean is irrelevant to critical analysis of what's in the text. it means when analysing the meaning of a text you prioritise reader interpretation above author intention, and that an interpretation can hold valid meaning even if it's utterly unintentional on the part of the person who created the thing. it doesn't mean 'i can ignore that the person who made this is a bigot' - it may in fact often mean 'this piece of art holds a lot of bigoted meanings that the author probably wasn't intentionally trying to convey but did anyway, and it's worth addressing that on its own terms regardless of whether the author recognises it's there.' it's important to understand because most artists are not consciously and vocally aware of all the possible meanings of their art, and because art is communal and interpretive. and because what somebody thinks they mean, what you think somebody means, and what a text is saying to you are three entirely different things and it's important to be able to tell the difference.

male gaze is a cinematographic theory on how films construct subjectivity (ie who you identify with and who you look at). it argues that film language assumes that the watcher is a (cis straight white hegemonically normative) man, and treats men as relatable subjects and women as unknowable objects - men as people with interior lives and women as things to be looked at or interacted with but not related to. this includes sexual objectification and voyeurism, but it doesn't mean 'finding a lady sexy' or 'looking with a sexual lens', it means the ways in which visual languages strip women of interiority and encourage us to understand only men as relatable people. it's important to understand this because not all related gaze theories are sexual in nature and if you can't get a grip on male gaze beyond 'sexual imagery', you're really going to struggle with concepts of white or abled or cis subjectivities.


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2 years ago

they need to stop this NFL season now i am not joking or being facetious they need to reevaluate how football is played fundamentally and it should have happened after Tua earlier this season


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2 years ago

Me: oh yeah, if you think school photography is hard now, try imagining doing this with film.

The new girl: what’s film?

Me: … film. Like… film that goes in a film camera.

New girl: what’s that mean?

Me: … before cameras were digital.

New girl: how did you do it before digital?

Me:… with film? I haven’t had enough coffee for this conversation


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2 years ago

I’m always gonna be pissed that amatonormatvity as a term and a model for understanding society was literally mocked into disuse by exclusionists because of its association with aromantic folks.

Amatonormativity, honestly, has approximately fuck-all to do with aros. We did not even coin it, we’re simply the only people who actually take it seriously cause we’re among the ones who are most hurt by it. And it PISSES me the fuck off that it is not a widespread model used in greater queer discussions.


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2 years ago
Traumatic Head Injuries And Patriarchy Do Some Serious Damage To Boys.

Traumatic head injuries and patriarchy do some serious damage to boys.


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2 years ago

Watching the “you will excel at what you measure” trap devour basic moral practice in real time is fascinating in a terrible kind of way


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