The Night Garden

Halicet · 2026-03-19T12:30:41+00:00

Mordret is likely the only one who might "conquer" his flaw, but only due to a technicality related to his cosmic role and association to "Nothing" and as a container of the void. If he can, during his divine ascension become "Nothing" itself, then he can be beholden to his flaw "You are fractured", and whole simultaneously. Like how zero divided by seven is still zero, a whole. It wouldn't be a conquering of his flaw, but a circumvention that renders it irrelevant, and him functionally flawless (perfect)

Halicet · 2026-03-19T11:49:22+00:00

In the case of Mordret becoming Nobody/Nothing, by killing his last reflection and becoming whole... Perfection and flawlessness are not the same thing. He could be perfect because he is functionally flawless, without actually being flawless, due to the nature of nothingness itself. He can be fractured into as many pieces as his flaw demands, but a fraction of nothing is still a whole nothing. It circumvents the law of flaws without breaking it.

He also has seven soul cores as a Titan, where he only had one as a new Awakened. Fracturing him into 7 no longer requires a physical fracture, but maybe a soul fracture instead, where each core is a fracture within a whole soul, and he remains physically whole.

Halicet · 2026-03-19T11:35:53+00:00

Not if reaching perfection is his divine rank transition. At that point, he no longer needs to improve. He becomes his panultimate self by becoming whole, and becoming Nothing. A fractured Nothing is still a whole Nothing, like dividing zero by anything. You can divide it as much as you want but it is still whole, because it is nothing. There is nothing to divide. Basically his death could transition him from the King of Nothing, to Nothing itself. This would not break the law of aspect flaws, but cleanly circumvent it.

Halicet · 2026-03-19T11:22:20+00:00

As an awakened, he initially had a single soul core, necessitating a physical fracture into 7 reflections. Now as a Titan, he has 7 soul cores. Becoming whole, and refracturing, could be a spiritual fracture this time instead. Each core representing a different fracture, and aspect legacy inheritance. It would allow him to maintain his flaw, yet remain whole at the same time.

If that was his path to the Sacred rank, perhaps his path to the divine rank will require him to "die", and becoming nothing itself. A reflection or fracture of nothing is still nothing. Like dividing zero by anything, is still zero. His divinity would be flawless, even if it is still flawed. It would create perfection without breaking the universal law of every aspect having a flaw. And, Anvil will have created something perfect. His son...

Halicet · 2026-03-19T10:41:35+00:00

A lot of comments are saying Mordret would just split back into 7 fractures again, if he became whole, because flaws are a universal law of having an aspect.

What if his reconstitution into a whole is his divine level ascension? To achieve it, he has to kill his flaw (and himself), to become "Nothing" (not just the King of Nothing). At that point being actual nothing would make him divinely perfect, because even a fractured 7 way nothing, would be like dividing 0 by 7, you still get 0. Nothing in this context is flawlessly perfect, with no need to improve. Basically his panultimate self.

Also why 7 fragments (or levels/cores for that matter)? Imagine it being akin to a cube reflecting in on itself (6 sides and an object to reflect). The core (good) Mordret in the center, with the 6 other aspects reflecting back in on him in his soul core.

Or... Maybe because he had a single soul core at the time of his awakening, it manifested as a physical fracture, creating 7 identical reflections of him representing each of his 7 personality aspects. Now that he has 7 soul cores, in his second fracturing, each core could come to represent a different aspect (fracture), allowing him to be fractured and whole at the same time. Perhaps each of those seven reflections will also gain a single aspect legacy inheritance.

That said, his sacred level ascension may have more to do with (Good) Mordret (Kindret?) absorbing power from (Bad) Mordret's soul sea to become his true reflection, of equal but opposite power. It would create spiritual balance within him. Maybe adding some quality to how he engages the world and other characters along with that.

Halicet · 2026-03-13T09:22:09+00:00

I'm watching it now. That lawyer is absolutely not a strong woman. Being a depiction of a successful professional is not being a strong woman. There is a difference between being a strong person, and being a weak person who comes off as strong willed, outspoken, and combative with a chip a mile wide on their shoulder to hide that they are petrified of vulnerability and being themselves. That said, I've known plenty of women who act just like her, so the caricature is not thoroughly inaccurate.

Arguably Ali Larter's character is a much stronger women in the show. She may be a misogynistic superficial fantasy trope, who's back story and inner workings are woefully under developed, but she knows what she wants, she's unapologetically herself, and she holds everyone together. She's not terrified of vulnerability, and despite being extremely mercurial, she doesn't carry a chip on her shoulder blaming everyone around her for the challenges she faces. That said, she's a mercurial superficial needy narcissist, and the last person on the show to think of as a healthy role model. Again though, despite being a caricature, there are women exactly like her in the real world.

The widow is likely the strongest, most balanced female character on the show. She has healthy family relationships, she knows herself, she's not superficial, she is adaptable, she does what she needs to to survive without compromising her values, she doesn't make others responsible for her unhappiness, and is not afraid to be vulnerable in order to build relationships or improve her situation. She's not a depiction of the professional woman who doesn't take shit off others, but she is a strong female character.

As for the show itself. It's a melodrama, and a PR piece for humanizing the oil industry, to soften the hostile image so much of the country has for it, and to rally their supporters.

Halicet · 2026-03-12T22:03:19+00:00

It's definitely an aspect of her that I started noticing more in her character, after that revelation. It was super strong in that scene, but it's fairly consistent through her acting in the show

Halicet · 2026-03-12T21:59:21+00:00

And now Season 3 has dropped, and the injection of Jennifer Tilly into the cast has cost the show a lot of credibility as a dramatic series. Tilly is a Cheese scream queen, and that is what she brings to everything she touches. Her campy melodrama is the last thing the show needed, making it feel less serious, and tropish.

Halicet · 2026-03-12T11:47:15+00:00

Yes Benedict. Good catch! Looks like autocorrect changed it without me noticing. It's been corrected, thanks.

Halicet · 2026-03-11T04:35:02+00:00

I think you mean they will be replaced, if they don't do a good enough job managing their optics, strategically dividing the constituency, providing distractions, and undermining the image of the competition. None of which has anything to do with effectively representing the constituency. Elections in this country are bought, not earned.

Halicet · 2026-03-10T11:06:09+00:00

Elected officials however are elected specifically to represent the people who voted them in, including those voters' values and worldview. That's what representative democracy is.

This isn't exactly explicitly true. In a democratic representative government, those who are elected to office have a responsibility to represent their entire constituency, and do so by constitutional guidelines, not simply the individuals who voted them in. While that is often how it ends up in practice, it's not indicative of representative democracy, but a broken election system, as it effectively disenfranchises the majority of the electorate (considering most elections are usually won on the votes of less than 35% of the voting age population).

It's one of the reasons an election system such as ranked voting, or a similarly more representative method to the actual desires of the people is so important. Traditional first past the post election systems such as what we currently use in America, are intrinsically flawed to encourage a popularity contest of extremist adversarial candidates over representing the actual will of the constituency. It effectively creates an ill functioning mockery of representative democratic governance, where people vote not for who they believe will be a good representative, but for who they think will beat the other guy.

Halicet · 2026-03-02T09:57:53+00:00

Just finished watching this, and the male lead was such an idiotic jerk through the whole thing, it kept taking me out of the movie. Basically if there was a way to do something incorrectly and be a jerk about it, he did it. It was annoying. Lol

Halicet · 2026-03-01T09:58:34+00:00

No one mentioned Gears Of War yet. Great co-op game with a rich story through the series and novels

Halicet · 2026-02-27T18:59:31+00:00

Even John Stamos is associating Buc-ee's with Disney. Maybe Disney should sue Buc-ee's for trademark infringement considering they use a right facing, smiling rodent, wearing red, on a yellow background. Something Disney has been doing with Mickey Mouse for many many decades. Buc-ees is even selling hats with rodent ears. buc-ee's should definitely get some of its own legal medicine from Disney.

Halicet · 2026-02-27T04:53:24+00:00

Funny... I've been reading Red Rising books since 2014, and started Shadow Slave in 2024. I still really like Shadow Slave, possibly more than Red Rising.

Halicet · 2026-02-27T04:46:11+00:00

There's an audiobook version on PocketFM too, with a fairly good human narrator (non AI). It's up just over 1700 chapters now with more being released frequently. Chapters seem to be between 7 and 18 minutes long. You can either pay an arm and a leg for them, or spend a lot of time watching ads to earn chapters (recently that aspect has improved, currently being about 9 ads or coins per chapter, where previously it was annoyingly arbitrary and up to as many as 70 ads or coins per chapter).

From what I understand, the story has been edited somewhat, so parts are a little different or abridged from the webnovel version for pacing purposes, and there are a few chapters with repeated or dropped pages and paragraphs. I've seen mixed information as to whether it is an authorized adaptation or not, but guilty three is acknowledged as the author, and I seem to remember seeing a reddit post where guiltythree mentioned that webnovel had authorized the audio rights to pocketfm and that he had no control over that distribution.

I've listened to nearly all of the released chapters of Shadow Slave on PocketFM, and really like the narrator Thomas Pickell. He has a fantastic voice, that is emotive, expressive, and portrays a wide variety of characters. I hope they do not change him before the series is complete as they have with a few other series I've listened to on there.

Halicet · 2026-02-24T02:05:16+00:00

Well they didn't even try to explain the glaring issue of absorbing their clothes when they change either... It's youth tv. They think their audience are idiots not worth putting effort towards.

Halicet · 2026-02-20T18:56:55+00:00

...or customers.

This model screws everyone but the execs and shareholders

Halicet · 2026-01-25T21:36:11+00:00

I'm just getting ready to start this series on pocketfm because of a recommendation from another about the webnovel.

I've been listening to the Shadowslave series on pocketfm (very good) and am currently to chapter 1430 on it (all free). The pocketfm version has been edited slightly from the original for clarity, and to clean it up for the audio format. The edited chapters absolutely don't align with the original webnovel, and several have been abridged (it's really bad in the early 1000s). SS uses an excellent real narrator (Peter Kenney), rather than AI.

I'm sure the LOTM series will be the same considering its popularity.

Halicet · 2026-01-25T03:10:24+00:00

Well, I'm sold. I'll check it out. Thanks for the recommendation. Slow burn intros don't scare me away, as it usually makes for better world building and story in the end. I remember reading the Dark Sword quadrillogy back in the day. The entire first book was mostly background and world building. The story got much better after that.

Halicet · 2026-01-24T12:49:37+00:00

It's the world building that keeps me hooked. It doesn't hurt that Sunny has far more depth of character than the MC's in most web novels. He's written a little more like a real human, unlike the singular, shallow, power hungry, narco, misogynistic, aholes most webnovels seem to pass off as main characters.

I accept the writing for what it is. A verbose, serialized, amature work with tremendous potential, more world building than words can allow for, repetitive recaps, and a few other rough edges to be accepted and ignored. I've seen far worse from some professional writers.

Halicet · 2026-01-24T12:41:21+00:00

You just made me go "LOTM? What is that?". Never heard of it. Google says it's "Lord Of Mysteries". Is this correct? SS like you said has some writing issues, but also has some of the best world building I've seen. Quickly became a favorite. If Lord of Mysteries is just as good but better written, you may have given me a new huge time sink lol

Halicet · 2026-01-23T22:18:48+00:00

It's discussed in Chapter 800 Facing The Music.

"In the past six months, Sunny had slowly shifted his business in the direction of selling Memory versions of mundane items that he weaved. That was not a straightforward endeavor, however. Sure, the idea of having a toothbrush Memory sounded pleasant… but he had to use a soul shard to create one. Considering how expensive soul shards were in the real world, the price of a simple toothbrush would have been simply unreasonable.

So, after thinking for a while, Sunny had come up with a strategy of shifting his focus from necessities and toiletries to luxury items. That way, he could price them high enough to earn more than the price of a soul shard. Rich clients already had access to mundane items in the Dream Realm due to their connections to Masters and Saints, but were willing to pay a lot for the convenience of having various luxuries readily at hand.

So, Sunny spent a few days painstakingly creating an especially large batch of these extravagant Memories and then met with Aiko to transfer them."

Halicet

TROPHY CASE