#so come down to the lab

[just-late-roman-republic-things]

Thinkin' about her (the big black Slab that covered part of the forum and the Romans forgot why they put it there, so they made up spooky stories about it being the tomb of Romulus)

Thinkin' about him (the shrine discovered beneath the Slab containing our first hard evidence of a monarchy in early Rome)

(Mary Beard, SPQR)

#so come down to the lab #and see what's on the slab #spqr book #mary beard #archaeology #the Slab #jlrrt speaks

[carolperkinsexgirlfriend]

Steddie Upside-Down AU Part 87

Part 1 Part 86

Mom’s hovering in front of the door, a knife in her hand, trying to get the rest of them to get away from the window. It’s not working. If anything, Max’s nose only presses more firmly to the glass with every request she makes.

Will’s hovering just behind her, desperate to keep Steve and Eddie in his line of sight. He can just barely see the wisp of a curl through the side window of the van, bouncing as Eddie moves around inside.

He squints, trying to keep the hair in sight as the movement becomes more erratic.

Will hears glass breaking just as he loses sight of Eddie entirely, wisps and all.

He rushes past his Mom, using the weight of his body to open the door, even as she stands in the way. It’s almost involuntary, a compulsion to follow the thread that Eddie’d pulled him by.

“Will, don’t!” she cries, but it’s too late. He’s out, and through.

Mike calls after him, too, and there’s the sound of tennis shoes stampeding out of the house behind him. Will only hopes he’s not leading them all to their impending doom.

Bodies slump into the driveway, none of them human. They’re like if the Demogorgon had followed a different evolutionary chain. Dustin would find it fascinating. Will just wants Eddie and Steve back.

Wayne’s still standing sentry, looking out across the street, waiting for more monsters to creep in from the darkness, Barbara by his side.

Shielding the entrance to the van, is El.

“El!” It’s Mike, because it always is. He sounds so genuinely elated that something curdles and dies in his throat. He swallows it down, hopes it decomposes in his stomach, so he never has to look directly at it. “You came!”

El smiles, happily at Mike, then around to all of them. “Of course.” She looks over at Max, and she’s frowning now, that way she does when she doesn’t understand something. It used to happen all the time. Now, it’s rare.

Will doesn’t care, can’t when Eddie’s too quiet in the van somewhere Will can’t see. He pushes past her, too.

There’s a misshapen, monstrous foot sticking out of the broken window. He stares at it for a second before swinging the door open. It wrenches the foot strangely, makes it crack and tear with the resistance of the door before it breaks free, black blood flowing like the thing’s still alive. 

It stays still. 

Will looks past it, and finds Eddie’s pale face.  

There’s glass in his hair, and his palms are bleeding where they’re held in front of him, but he’s breathing. Alive. And he’s looking up at El like she’s answered all his prayers. Will and Eddie have been sharing the same prayers from the same broken pews for so long that for a second, Will thinks Steve is back. 

He scrambles over the dead thing blocking his entrance. It’s cold against his palms, flesh barely giving as he crawls hand over feet atop it. But, Steve’s still just sitting there, blinking, Carol huddled into his side like he can protect her, even like this.

“Steve needs your help,” Eddie says, plaintive. Begging with both voice and unblinking eyes, gaze locked on El’s own until she breaks it to look at where Steve still sits, unbothered.

Her brow furrows, eyes squinting like she’s peeling off layers of skin and meat to get to whatever’s underneath. “He’s lost?” she asks.

Carol is squinting at El like the words aren’t clicking for her. She looks back to Steve, then back to El, brow furrowing with anger.

Eddie nods. Will clears his throat. “Not like last time,” he clarifies. “He’s here, but his mind isn’t.”

El nods, decisive. “I will help.”

“What the hell are you all talking about!” Carol demands, even as people scatter around her, setting up for El’s latest rescue mission. “He’s right there!”

She’s not looking at Will, though. She’s looking at Eddie like it’s all his fault. Still, when Steve doesn’t say anything, her lip wobbles as she turns and asks, “right Steve?”

He doesn’t answer, even as she calls again. Will looks away when she bites her lips, eyes wide.

It’s easier this time. They don’t have to break into the school, don’t have to find a pool. El just sits cross-legged in front of Steve on the carpet, careful to stay away from the broken glass and the dead thing. Mike covers her eyes with Wayne’s flannel while the man himself switches the radio dial until he finds one with enough white noise to satisfy.

He can’t quite tune out the murmured conversation between Eddie and Carol, though, no matter how hard he tries. Eddie explains, in clipped, emotionless words, that something, one of the monsters from the other place she’d just gotten a taste of, has taken over Steve. 

“But we’re getting him back?” she asks, voice shrill and breaking, contrasting with Eddie’s own even tone. A veteran to the newbie in the warzone. 

Will, suddenly, feels terribly old. 

“Quiet now,” El demands. 

Eddie looks away from Carol without answering. There is no answer to that question when they’re all subsisting off hope, and not much else.

“Tell him we’re coming, okay?” Eddie asks. He’s looking down at his own bloody palms now, like he can’t bear to look at their last bastion of hope and wait for it to flame and go out. 

“Ask ‘im how to stop the thing taking ‘im over,” Wayne interjects. 

Eddie’s lip wobbles. Will knows how he feels. He doesn’t want Steve to know, if he’s in there at all, that they don’t know what to do. Neither does Will. He wants to save Steve. He always wants to save Steve.

But, Eddie finally looks up, meeting Will’s eyes before nodding. The movement knocks a tear free, but his voice sounds clear when he says, “Ask him how we kill the fucker.”

El nods, shoulders settling as she reaches out to take Steve’s hand. The white noise blankets them all. Will settles down to wait. 

That’s what they always do, when Steve is dying: they wait. This time is no different. 

Part 88

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#steddie #steve harrington #eddie munson #steddie upsidedown au #will byers #my fic #Jonthan and Nancy aren't here for Multiple Reasons. 1. I think it would be funny if they were just at Nancy's house hanging out with no ide #what is going on. and also. Nancy's specific drive with the upside-down has NOT been activated because Barb is alive. So she didn't do\ #the whole Muarry expose the lab plot. and Jon is SLIGHTLY chiller because there are more people looking out for Will so he doesn't feel lik #every single thing has something to do with him. This would also make the season 3 plot smacking them hard and fast sooo much worse #this isn't plot relavant really. it will Not come up i don't think. I just think it's funy. #Also 2. that is just too many characters. I had to put a few back in the box. I have difficulty with any more than like 5? this scene #WITHOUT those two has what. 11??????? And it Shows I think. So no more

[lastoneout]

I know it's a nuanced topic and any breed of dog can be dangerous but every time I see people scare mongering about german shepards I think about the first time I took mine to a dog park and how she was having a blast UNTIL she saw that there was a like, barely 1 y/o mastiff in there, and despite how badly that poor guy wanted to be her friend she had absolutely no idea how to process the very new information that there exist dogs who are bigger than her, and spent the entire time we were there standing on a picnic table looking desperately confused and occasionally whining at me to help her.

#granted she was a lab mix so she was like #so fucking stupid #-0 braincell ass dog #but still she was enough of a shepard that it barred us from living in specific places so #and it was just so funny and infuriating to have people be like “no german shepards are dangerous!!” about a dog #that literally was the biggest scaredy cat in the entire world #it was also funny bcs she was whining for help but wouldnt come down off the table #and I was like Laika my dear you are 40lbs of pure Dog and I'm a 5'1“ 17 year old #I cannot pick you up

[carefulfears]

i hope someday he reads this and knows

(the x files little green men / ? / the x files closure / ann brashares my name is a memory / the x files dreamland ii / anne carson antigonick / the x files my struggle i / jandy nelson i'll give you the sun / michael dickman killing flies / the x files amor fati / the x files closure script / the x files conduit, redux / the x files conduit script)

#thinking today about how badly these two missed each other for their whole lives #she was so little and being literally tortured and all she wanted was her big brother #he spends the REST of his life trying to be there for people like he couldn't be for her #this show is a tragedy etc etc #kae web weaving #she wrote in her journal that she just wished she could see his face for REAL and she never did!!! she only saw him again in death!!!! #when her 'ghost' comes out of the woods and she just sees him and smiles and Runs to him. yeah. #in his mind he'll always be a Failed big brother but to her he's just Her big brother #she was 14 and a human lab rat and the memory of him was literally the only thing that she had to hold onto. i'm making myself insane #she just wanted him to know someday. that she wished she could see him #he blamed and hated himself for his whole entire life and she literally didn't think anything more than Missing his face. #wanting him to know her story #writing it all down and hiding it for him #good morning everyone

[clodiuspulcher]

today im thinking about malaria in ancient rome.

about the fact that P. falciparum (the most dangerous kind of malaria) was likely endemic at least from the 2nd century BC onward that Galen said semitertian fevers (P. falciparum infections) were more common in Rome than anywhere else in the Roman Empire that the most severe manifestations of P. falciparum (quotidian fevers + cerebral malaria) were most common in babies and young children, an epidemiological observation that indicates the transmission rate of P. falciparum was extremely high in Rome that Quintus Serenus said there was no Latin word for semitertian fevers (they used a transliteration of the Greek, 'hemitritaeos') because "no one, i think, could have named it in our language and mothers would not have wanted to"

#working on my thesis gonna bring down the mood of the whole department #but i feel like i have to honor them #and the thing about malaria that fucks me up is P. falciparum has been around for tens of thousands of years #its not a disease of agriculture like smallpox or of sanitary issues that come with civilization like typhoid #it predates agriculture its been found in the bodies of mummies from ancient egypt and skeletons from ancient greece and rome #there are species-specific plasmodium parasites for gorrillas chimpanzees and humans #which to me indicates there was a plasmodium parasite for every now lost hominid #malaria is the strongest recent evolutionary pressure on the human genome #upwards of 30% of people in some parts of the world are heterozygous for sickle cell anemia #or heterozygous for SE asian ovalocytosis #thus it was more evolutionarily advantageous for 2-3% of all children to die #so about 30% of people could be protected from severe malaria #these mutations take a long time to evolve. parasites take a long time to evolve #there are people who mourned their infants tens of thousands of years ago in languages we will never know with rituals we will never see #and i cant do anything about any of that but i can keep going to the lab every day and trying my best to figure it out #because so many generations of humans stretching back to before we were human could not

[schrodingers-slut]

Debating abt starting a Mer au fic but I can’t decide on Marco/Ace or luffy/law

#lulaw #lawlu #marace #marco/ace #i say things #the secret third option is shinkami from mha but that’s so very niche #I know I want only one person to be human and they’re gonna be a scientist #there’s gonna be a lab setting for most of it I think #I just can’t decide who should be the mer #bc they’re gonna be pretty feral at least in the beginning #so if I do marace I think it’s gonna be Ace as the mer #if it’s lulaw I think it could actually go either way? #altho idk that luffy would be a good scientist bc I know the struggle of being absentminded in the biology field #like all love and everything but luffy would NOT put up with the bullshit they require for a degree #he does NOT have the attention span for all this busywork #I think law would be a v good feral mer with luffy being completely unshakable and unafraid #but I also like the idea of a very clingy mer luffy (who’s already kinda feral in canon) only cooperating with law #it’s gonna come down to who my nerd ass can comfortably assign a species to tbh #also if anyone has thoughts on this lmk i love outside input when I’m brainstorming

[aro-culture-is]

quick note - this blog is gonna be sparse again for at least this week. trying new medications and tbh initial side effects are not super pleasant + actual effects build up. as a result: currently as if unmedicated for mental health, with anxiety+ side effect, extra fatigue, dizziness, and fatigue. it's uh, sure something.

totally recognize that most of y'all know we're absent at times due to health things, just wanted to give a heads up that this one is at least anticipated.

#fun fact sometimes condensing meds just means poorer treatment of some conditions #this is a re-expansion + new thing #so that instead of poorly treating my mental health and using an unusually high dose SNRI for another (physical) condition #i will hopefully both be in less pain AND not depressed af AND also have an appetite again #i doubt i will be lucky and not have a fucked stomach due to meds but one can hope that an appetite will allow me to eat foods that upset #my stomach a lot less #my health is forever a massive balancing act #every time a medical thing is like 'so what meds do u take' i'm like here i wrote it down for u #and they're like 'oh. ooookay. let me just...' *five minutes of typing and clicking later* #'so! what did you come in for again? uhuh. you said you experience pain daily? with your chronic pain thing? hm. have you tried yoga?' #/gen #like. straight up every time i say 'i am in pain all the time due to fibromyalgia' they are like 'ooh studies say regular exercise helps' #and like. theoretically yes! but also. i would be lying if i said the fibromyalgia studies i've skimmed don't set off general 'bad science' #alarm bells in my brain #like... cool you performed a fibromyalgia study with... all male lab rats? mhmm? so are you aware fibromyalgia appears to occur #overwhelmingly in women? like. data seems to suggest between 70-85%? #(not that the data can't still indicate things but it certainly makes male rats a poor choice of model for tests on it) #also just... idk i've looked at some metaanalysis and been like 'okay cool theory and for all i know about human bio or bio in general that #sounds more or less correct BUT. you never discussed that one study on this subject that did NOT support your conclusion. #and that's 1) interesting when it was the most diverse group of subjects and the exceptions often teach just as much as the 'rule' #2) just shitty science. tell me how your theory is still credible when some evidence doesn't fit the model. #like... 'given that all other studies were primarily conducted on white american women in their 30s to 40s it is possible that this model #only explains (the early effects of fibro since that's a typical onset period) / (a possible genetic link primarily found in white women) / #(a possible sign of bias in diagnosis that demonstrates the possibility that there are different causes) / combinations of all of those #like... idk a paper that just throws out things that don't support it is a pretty big red flag #it doesn't mean the conclusion is entirely incorrect but it is often important to understand the context in which it applies #like... it's very easy to jump to an incorrect conclusion if you used something in the wrong context #ie: thumbs up is a good job / positive thing in a lot of western civilizations. teenage kee once went to china and discovered it to be #neutral to offensive in many areas outside of major tourist locations that were used to it #anyways i gotta sleep

[leefl00f]

New hc: Nori would totally throw a lab(house) party whenever the scientists are away for holiday

More in the tags :3

#floof speaks #:3c #murder drones #nori murder drones #murder drones nori #nori doorman #the lil gremlin loves to party #and Yeva tries to keep the party as calm as she can so the scientists don’t come back w/ the lab all messed up #but ofc she gives in #meanwhile Alice is throwing it down on the (makeshift) dance floor #yeva murder drones #murder drones yeva #murder drones alice #alice murder drones

[opens-up-4-nobody]

The way that the sun hits leaves and clouds. I feel like I could watch the colors change forever. If I could slow down for that long.

#i keep forgetting a have a deck now. i can go outside and sit there #im doing that now. sitting in the corner of a deck full of empty chairs. staring up at a big pine tree where the sun is striking it gold #at the top. i like how thr light hits the needles. if the sky was black it would look like its on fire #theres a tree outside my bedroom window too. in the morning. after the sunrises it catches thr light and refelcts the most perfect shade #of green. the kind of green that flutters translucent like youre looking up from the bottom of a pool. the light the light its all about #the sun. everything everything is about the sun. when i start my project I'll be focused on understanding how organisms catch the light bc #its so incredible and complicated it would make my chest swell to bursting if there wasnt an empty bleeding wound in my gut. a #metaphorical wound of course. i dunno. its just difficult bc right now my mood is inflated by hormones. not even that much i think I'm #just at what shoulf be a normal level of happiness so i can be slow for a minute. but just a minute bc i kno it won't last long #sorry i cant shut the fuck up when im like this but i dunno i just feel like i havr to document these ephemeral moments before they're gone #its just difficult when you kno the world is so full of beautiful things but 95% of the time your eyes are too clouded to see it #everyone tells me i work too much but i feel like im just staring off into space being miserable 60% of the time. ive just done so much #damage over the past few years im coming into a new lab as damaged goods. ive got an albatross around my neck in thr form of data i #collected so self destructively that the idea of having anything to do with its publication makes me hate myself. everytime someone tells #me good job on collecting so so so much data it feels like they're congratulating me for breaking something within myself. like i slit my #wrists and bled out on a lab bench and theyre saying good job and theyre excited for me and i have to grin and bear it and pretend im #excited too. but im not bc ive burned everything inside me to ash. so when im elevated enough to be distracted by the clouds and trees it #feels like healing. like seeing angels. beautiful ephemeral beams of light. i wish i could slow down enough to watch them. but now thr sun #is hitting the horizon and the sky is going gradually dark and i should go inside. bc i have many things to do in the morning. so that's #what ill do. and ill try to get more thsn 6hrs of sleep but its hard when your body is vibrating over with energy #but at least i dont feel tired in the morning. something in my head must be on fire #unrelated #hm i should maybe add a tw to this #tw self injury #but its the kind thst makes u good at ur Job. its the kind ppl reward. so they don't understand when u say its destroying ur life #but im trying to get better. i say as i gear up for an insane semester lol but i do mean it

[lovesickeros]

Darling: you hate me, it's written all over your face

Reader's resting b*tch face: what?

darling says it just to annoy you lbr. bc no matter how bad your resting bitch face is, the tsaritsa's is worse. darling has had years to learn how to discern the tsaritsa's mood when shes as reactive as a statue.

#asks #pale-value #sagau #tsaritsa #darling #in the tsaritsa's defense it isnt intentional shes just Like That. shes only expressive when she wants to be unnerving #bc whats scarier then blank faced tsaritsa staring you down? tsaritsa smiling. start counting bc you have seconds left #its like 99% body language and its all extremely subtle though. its an art form atp #80% of that body language btw is her ears. its why she hides them bc they give it away so EASILY. #reader being as stone faced is a challenge to darling though. like oh worm??? bet #darling thrives off chaos bc its the only entertainment they get when ur literally g-d #especially if you do not give a shit abt them being the creator. it just makes everything Worse #they r keeping you in a container like a lab rat #also unrelated but im fully taking over darling sorry comrade. my oc now /j #ive been having brainrots abt worldbuilding w darling. they arent even an unreleased character like tsaritsa. im going 2 eat a brick #WHAT WORLD AM I BUILDING HERE. MY OWN PERSONAL HELL????????? #yes. i am. thanks for coming 2 my ted talk gn

[bigboysteveharrington]

I got distracted working on part of a chapter later than the one I still need to finish and post and

Mike: Everyone’s afraid of Hopper, right?

Will, whose previous father figure was Lonnie and whose first memory of Hopper is him carrying him out of the Upside Down: 🤨

#I can't put Will or El or Jonathan's thoughts on this scene until I get there in the so far unposted fic in the same universe as The Things #in Life That I Can't Find but I *can* make a post making it clear that Will is internally like bitch wtf??? because he hasn't witnessed #Hopper intentionally being ominous to Mike and to Will Hopper was already becoming a dad figure before Hopper and Joyce even got together #Because he didn't even know Hopper when Hopper didn't give up on helping Joyce finding him even after his fake dead body washed up #And Hopper went into the Upside Down back when no one had ever come back out alive to get him and carried him out #And Hopper came along to the check ups Will had to have at Hawkins Lab and Hopper was already there for him more and doing more as a father #figure than Lonnie ever did even before they suddenly became a 5 person Hopper-Byers family unit so Will is one of the only ones that #didn't start off petrified of Hopper before they realized that he was on their side and he's seen the way that El is the boss out of Hopper #and El a lot of the time and he's seen the way that Hopper goes along with whatever Joyce wants 99.9% of the time even if they do bicker in #a more lighthearted way that never has Will hiding in Jonathan's room with loud music on to get away from it so he's like yeah Hopper's #big but he's just Hopper??? He's tough in a good at protecting us way but he gives in all the time to what people he cares about want and #he goes out of the way to do things for people regularly??? #Plus Joyce never looks scared of him and she's happier when he's around and Jonathan and Joyce and El all trust him so Will fully trusts #him and likes having him around too #Oops I didn't mean to go on such a long ramble in the tags but I have a lot of thoughts on that family dynamic #Hence the turning the fic into a series so that I can have a fic that focuses on their dynamics #Mine

[devil-changmin]

No, for real, people who do not watch Thai BL are literally missing out on the full range of human emotion

#you do not need sex or drugs or rock and roll if you can sit down and watch 45 mins of a show #where the translation gives you less context than if you just watched it raw #uses pronouns as haphazardly as a suburban mom trying to understand their kid's gender #and will literally put a break in the middle of a sentence so you have to wait until someone else speaks for the rest of the line #and THEN has a whole plot about the bitcoin investor in the fashion dorm inventing a faggot detector and selecting a classmate AT RANDOM to #test it on #ALL THE WHILE IN FRONT OF A PANEL OF PROSPECTIVE INVESTORS who could make this product a REAL THING #and his entire pitch revolves around 'doesn't it suck that anyone could be gay and we dont get to know?!?!?!?!?!?!' #meanwhile he's somehow made a massive breakthrough in genetic science (using resources from an anti-homosexual lab in Russia) #and doesnt even care about the scientific ground he just cares about his cousin not coming out

[el-im]

i forgot about this. in lab wednesday ryan (my ta) asked what i was reading. i hold up my book and he goes ‘no thank you’ and i said ‘you think that’s bad, look at this’ and opened it and pointed at the two pages in 6 pt font and said ‘that’s one footnote’. explained i was reading this on behalf of a friend and that i didn’t actually like this guy. and he was like. this is what you do for fun? like. this is how you unwind? I said, yeah, i guess (i have never been unwound in my entire life). he says ‘you read for fun, and not even like. magic treehouse or anything.’ and i said ‘ryan, do you read a lot of magic treehouse?’ and he says ‘don’t worry about it’

#also the bathrooms in the chem lab facility and in the actual building are all broken and ryan came up to hannah and i at one point #and was like. #tmi. #but. #i didn't know the bathrooms were out of order until it was too late #and long story short there is a shit sitting in the toilet on the 5th floor of the science lab facility that was 'bad when i left it' and #'will likely be worse later' that won't be flushed until monday at the earliest #there were tears in his eyes as he talked about the cleaning lady that he knows works on that floor #she's this old woman. he says. she does her hair every day #so it's beautiful and comes down in curls... #and. he says. #looking at us pleadingly. #she knows it was me. #captain's log

[hungerofhadarr]

an In-Between state of mind.

#mass effect #oc tags #urien deere #the reanimated #male shepard #having a Lot of thoughts about Urien waking up in the Cerberus lab again #hiiifhdjdbdjd #waking up in a body that is yours but so clearly wasn’t suppose to be #hhhhfbfhdjs #also Cerberus medical gown tease omg #imagine being Jacob. and this 8 foot behemoth of a man who is abusing his new biotics just comes FLYING down the hall #not in any armor #just a gown that isn’t made for combat #what are you doing? #could you even do anything? #Urien hours #blood cw

[stockholmgf]

:)

#feeling good about this year guys #i was jotting down any future schedule conflicts i’d have this year for work #went to put down my family’s birthdays and realized most of them happen after i leave for school #which obviously i was aware was coming up but it hit! still 8 months to go but i’m so excited #went apartment shopping with the future roomie today! #and i am SO FCKING EXCITED ABOUT THAT PLACE #the location on campus is PERFECT and i’m in a stem community that offers me so many resources i am so excited and lucky #and i just miss my campus so much i can’t wait to get back #i’m applying for labs and scholarships and internships #and it’s hard to keep myself focused on present times i keep forgetting i have a whole semester and a half to go but whatever #classes start next week i’m excited! #i only have 4 this semester. 2 of them are 5 credits but whateve #i made a friend that’s gonna sit with me in one of my classes and i think that’ll be nice #someone to hold me responsible #might add a chemistry major? we’ll see how this sem goes! #feelin happy! well rested eating well drinking water and reading more! #happy new year <3

[goldensunset]

i need the full geeta lore actually

#‘i have been to the zero lab myself a few times before but [blah blah blah’ GIRL?? #don’t just drop that so casually #i mean it checks out that she’s been to area zero of course #but like the zero lab… #wasn’t that built specifically by turo? #was she allowed to visit it all those years ago back in the glory days of his research #that would’ve been like ten years ago. so was she the champion then? how old was she? #was he insane yet back then? he barely ever communicated with anyone during that time it seemed #or is she talking about having been since The Incident #in which case she could only mean having reached the outside bc the door was locked and only the ai could let her in #hold on but then the ai would have detected her presence and probably reached out to get her to do the thing we ended up doing #maybe it did. maybe it tried and she chickened out thinking she wasn’t strong enough #maybe she was just waiting for someone as strong as us to come along. maybe she knew the truth about everything the whole time. #or has she simply visited since the end of the main story. post-ai turo #but again. why did she have the indigo disk where did she get that #the zero lab was built by the professor right? the disc is specifically compatible with that new lab tech not like ancient stuff #she must’ve had known him personally in some way #please i wanna know. what part did she play in the entire mess that went down with turo as he slipped into madness down there #the sv dlc experience #sv dlc spoilers