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[–] [email protected] 73 points 8 months ago (6 children)

I write these words in steel, for anything not set in metal cannot be trusted.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's a Mistborn reference isn't it? That sentence seems familiar

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

It is

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago

"What's a few words changed here and there among friends?" - Ruin, probably.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago

I am afraid, however, that all I have known - that my story - will be forgotten. I am afraid for the world that is to come. Afraid that Alendi will fail. Afraid of a doom brought by the Deepness.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Metals oxidize. You need a ceramic encased in a carefully constructed glass.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

It's a reference to the Mistborn series of books.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Would papyrus sealed in clay jars in a cave high in the mountains above a dead sea be okay?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

If you are lucky

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Tungsten carbide in high-silica glass will probably outlast humanity by a significant margin.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Until someone discovers your cache of tungsten carbide and sells it for scrap to be turned into ball bearings and drill bits.

The cap stones of the pyramids were taken for building construction. The rare velum paper with ancient Greek mathematics was bleached and used for daily prayers.

Perhaps the copper complaint survived because it was on worthless dry clay.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Depending on who you listen to, piss in the snow might outlast us after the next election.

If you live somewhere it still actually snows anyway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Nah Ruin will change the ceramic

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I knew this was going to be top comment.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Can steel really be trusted if it can be rusted?