{"id":770,"date":"2023-10-31T01:52:56","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T01:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.butterflyscythe.com\/jinx\/?p=770"},"modified":"2023-10-31T03:10:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T03:10:56","slug":"30-oct-23-the-second-secret-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.butterflyscythe.com\/jinx\/2023\/10\/31\/30-oct-23-the-second-secret-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"30 oct 23: the second hidden secret thing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>the key to surviving the reverse universe is someone on the other side has to want you to make it. otherwise forget it &#8212; what&#8217;s done is done. if no one cares whether you live or die, you will die. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>but if you can, for even a moment, negotiate with fate, you can dodge a bad destiny, slip through the reverse universe. this causes a collapse of the previous time-structure, in an ice-nine sort of disappearing polymorphism affect. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>this in turn means statistical distributions dramatically change the repeating pattern: bad fortune becomes bold fortune; but deaths of hubris dodged in this way will incur a future not worth saving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>of course, entering the reverse universe basically means one will never know if they met death and just continued on with inside a simulation, in the afterlife, in a coma, etc &#8212; to overcome this impossible junction means one has resolved the temporal crisis\/chrysalis and can continue living. otherwise one will, effectively, live on as a ghost.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.butterflyscythe.com\/jinx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/9f74902ab53a485abc60236a985dd9c2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-774\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.butterflyscythe.com\/jinx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/9f74902ab53a485abc60236a985dd9c2.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.butterflyscythe.com\/jinx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/9f74902ab53a485abc60236a985dd9c2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.butterflyscythe.com\/jinx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/9f74902ab53a485abc60236a985dd9c2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.butterflyscythe.com\/jinx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/9f74902ab53a485abc60236a985dd9c2-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.butterflyscythe.com\/jinx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/9f74902ab53a485abc60236a985dd9c2-360x360.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>the role played by the HGA is unknown at this time &#8212; several combinations of entrance into the reverse universe have been reported. none have occurred without some external force attracting one to return (even if they never see it again &#8212; compare Dante &amp; Beatrice)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the key to surviving the reverse universe is someone on the other side has to want you to make it. otherwise forget it &#8212; what&#8217;s done is done. if no one cares whether you live or die, you will die. but if you can, for even a moment, negotiate with fate, you can dodge a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magick","wpcat-7-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.butterflyscythe.com\/jinx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.butterflyscythe.com\/jinx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.butterflyscythe.com\/jinx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.butterflyscythe.com\/jinx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.butterflyscythe.com\/jinx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.butterflyscythe.com\/jinx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":776,"href":"https:\/\/www.butterflyscythe.com\/jinx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions\/776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.butterflyscythe.com\/jinx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.butterflyscythe.com\/jinx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.butterflyscythe.com\/jinx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.butterflyscythe.com\/jinx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}