To right the countless wrongs of our day, we shine this light of true redemption, that this place may become as paradise. What a wonderful world such would be."H I A T U S
not proshipper not anti but a secret third thing (person who has a career in the media and, through covering legislative politics, has watched “associating with problematic fiction or entertainment is an indicator of moral degeneracy” rapidly become a mainstream GOP position that they are encoding in legislation to target the queer community under the guise of protecting children, thus coming to the conclusion that positioning the “can people enjoy things that would be immoral IRL in their fiction” debate as a proship v anti fandom debate is akin to pretending that “should we have the death penalty” is a discussion that only matters in Death Note discourse — the extent and manner to which fiction affects reality is an issue that is immediately relevant to today’s US politics, and to summarize my opinions on the matter in fandom terms would be to diminish the ways this debate is affecting america Right The Fuck Now. and i have stopped taking “this person is bad for shipping the wrong anime thing and being horny about it” in any sort of good faith ever since I saw it literally used as part of a GOP smear campaign against a transgender state legislator in an attempt to defend the right from backlash after they used their supermajority in the Montana house to prevent her from speaking on the floor. Anyway I think everyone on this site, especially Americans, could benefit from ceasing to think in proship v anti vocabulary and instead developing coherent political positions on the nature of fiction that do not directly align with current fascist political tactics)
Gathering all the meta re: plants’ bioacoustics and how that is visually and auditorily represented throughout Trigun Stampede (2023) into one post 👇 👇 👇
Chladni figures are the geometric patterns that appear on the sand in the opening sequence of Trigun Stampede.
A static version can also be found all over the plants’ bodies, glowing on Vash and Knives’s face (and presumably bodies as well since in a few scenes the markings clearly extend to their necks) when communicating/connecting directly with plants, and on the bodysuits the twins wear as children—which Knives continues to wear as an adult.
From the single close-up frame we have of Knives to compare, it appears that Vash and Knives’s Chladni pattern is the same, which makes sense as they are identical twins.
“…[T]hese cymatic patterns are such a fascinating addition to the meta; how [Vash and Knives] communicate and/or interact with this plane of existence- a visual representation of their voices as plants [and] the frequency with which they resonate with the universe, or one another.”
Because plants operate at a frequency that the human ear cannot detect, there is indeed logic to Vash being able to hear Zazie The Beast’s buzzing sound.
Vash: “That unique mosquito sound… So you’re the one controlling the Worms.”
Zazie: “That’s odd. It should be inaudible to regular humans.” (S1, EP 4)
In a 2019 study, scientists discovered that Oenothera drummondii flowers “can sense natural airborne sounds.”
In a flashback of the twins’ childhood on the Project SEEDS Ship, Vash says the melody just comes to him unbidden and feels familiar.
Knives: “What’s that song?”
Vash: “It just comes to me. It calms me down when I’m nervous. I feel like I know it from long ago.” (S1, EP 12)
In the finale of Season 1, after Knives syncs with Vash to forcibly open his gate and access the dimension where the plants’ core is located, Vash starts humming the melody again. Immediately after, you can hear the melody in the background music of that scene as Meryl struggles to climb the overgrowth of vines, trying to get closer to Vash and calling his name.
This “plant motif” is also represented in the OST on the track “KNIVES’s Piano” by strings which can be heard starting at 1:38.
It’s interesting that only Vash knows and hums the “plant motif,” further reinforcing him as the twin who is more in-tune with his sisters (no pun intended).
Vash also seems to instinctually know how to calm and soothe distressed plants. We’re never shown Knives communicating with the plants, so it’s unclear if he’s able to the way Vash is.
The “plant motif” that Vash hums in S1, EP 12 is also the same motif that he adds to the piano duet the twins play at the beginning of S1, EP 9.
Not only is the plant motif heard as strings in “KNIVES’s Piano” at 1:38, it’s part of the main piano composition itself so you can hear it right at the start of the song, as well as in the beginning of “Visitation of a Calamity.”
If you listen closely at 0:23 of “Memory of Piano” you can hear the plant motif again as strings. You can also hear the first part of the motif as horns/brass in “Millions Knives” at 2:21 and 3:04.
All the OST tracks associated with Knives contain the “plant motif” in some way.
the fact it’s technically illegal to regrow/clone a lot of store produce because many of them are “patented” makes me so unbelievably violent and leftist
ever since I got into growing food I’ve discovered so much corporate evil in this place that most ppl either have no idea about or don’t care about. “what do you mean it’s illegal. it’s a plant” you are so close. keep going
