he looks like a bug
Shin Salmonid
the problem with fanfiction is that theres too many coffeeshop aus and not enough aus where the characters are trapped in an alivehouse psychological horror situation or perhaps a labyrinth of sorts
Since the first do-over somehow sounded even more like ass, I remastered/redid the whole track now that I have more experience.
Picture this as the OST for a surprise XTRA WAVE during the next Big Run. Even better if this "King Salmonid" isn't announced anywhere beforehand.
Imagine, if you will, that distorted victory jingle plays to signify a King Salmonid, but nothing happens. All eight(?!) players Super Jump back to their starting locations and Mr. Grizz pipes in to express his confusion. Then he notices... no, no, he definitely sent out a four-man squad! Why are there more of you? How long have these conspicuous individuals in the same uniform been trying to blend in amogus? Are those Grizzco weapons?!
Then without a word, the interlopers all open fire at once. Cue the music.
Although the firefight would break out as the music kicks off, the 100-sec Xtra Wave would only officially start at 0:22 — when the Grizzco helicopter is blasted out of the sky with a Trizooka, careening into the ocean in a catastrophic, firey wreck. Mr. Grizz lets out a long, garbled string of curses and hails the emergency speedboat he prepared in advance to come pick you up. But will it make it to your squad in time? Here's hoping.
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Ditching the odd time signatures and overdriven timpanis in favor of breakcore drum loops is kinda like sanitizing what made the music ω-3 (the band for Salmon Run) special and shoving what's left in a place where it don't belong — which is similar to my interpretation of what "salmonlings" would be like. Literal fish out of water.
Salminid culture is heavily tied to the belief in the circle of life (via being cooked alive). It's why they're so willing to zerg rush players during Salmon Runs. So imagine being torn away from said cycle, altered so irrevocably that you barely recognize yourself. My intent was to capture that feeling of horrid mania, and the music I sampled from/covered lended itself well to that, I think.
I've also found a good in-universe performer at last: DJ Unregistered Hypercam 3 (by @teethflavoured on Tumblr), a retired Mudmouth turned solo artist for whom I instantly fell head-over-heels.
(sample source list and an ultra-rad visualizer can be found on my YouTube)
Rock Swag Tournament Round 1: Igneous Rocks Part 8
ALT
ALTOnce again we have some rocks named after minerals! This time, they're both ultramafic. Also this time, we also have a fun diagram to look at.
ALTTernary plots, very useful but sometimes difficult to plot on (at least for me. I always confuse myself, even now). But we're not plotting anything, we're just looking at trends!
If you look at the three corners of this triangle, you will see they are labelled Ol for olivine), Opx for orthopyroxene, and Cpx for clinopyroxene. These corners tell us what three things we are comparing the proportions of. In this case, we are comparing what percent of olivine, orthopyroxene, and clinopyroxene are in a rock (and what we call that rock based on the relative amounts of these minerals).
Ternary diagrams can have any three things in the corners, but you'll often see QFL (Quartz, Feldspar, Lithics) diagrams to classify sedimentary rocks, or sand-silt-clay diagrams for soil texture. You can also stick two triangles together to make a diamond for something like a QAPF diagram where the four points are quartz, alkali feldspar, plagioclase, and feldspathoids. QAPF diagrams are also used to classify igneous rocks (you can plot syenite and monzonite on them, as well as your granites).
The closer you get to the top corner of the triangle, the more olivine you have. The closer you get to the right corner of the triangle, the more clinopyroxene you have, and the closer you get to the left corner of the triangle, the more orthopyroxene you have.
If your rock sample plots in the top half (ish) of the triangle (at least 40% olivine), your rock is a peridotite. Now, depending on the relative amounts of pyroxene minerals, you may have different types of peridotite like lherzolite, wherlite, harzburgite, or dunite.
In the picture of peridotite above, the peridotite is actually the xenolith (the green rock embedded in the black rock) and it would be considered dunite because it is more than 90% olivine. The reason a rock full of olivine is called peridotite is because peridot is another name for olivine (specifically gemstone-quality olivine).
As for pyroxenites, if you have less than 40% olivine, the rock would be a pyroxenite. If it's almost all pyroxene (no more than ~5% olivine, at the bottom of the pyramid), it would be called websterite.
As for other facts about the rocks, both peridotite and pyroxenite are typically intrusive, phaneritic rocks derived from the mantle. Peridotite is going to be some shade of green because of the olivine, and pyroxenite is usually black or at least dark in color.
I'm also thinking of making an informational post about volcanoes, partial melting (and magma composition) and how these rocks/magmas get from the mantle to the surface, so look out for that at some point (I know myself better than to name a specific timeline).
