#'black mesa silly straw'

[inga-don-studio]

It’s a good thing Dr. Coomer’s not here. So much green goop. Tastes like citrus. :)

[valko-lapsus]

Inktober Day 1: Judgement

After a journey of hardship, you have reached a turning point, and have gained a renewed vigor to keep going. Is your new arm going to lead you to salvation, or will it direct you to your downfall? Either way, it’s time to grab your Black Mesa Silly Straw, chug that potion barrel, and see if you and your friends can make it out.

(After three years, I’m back :) I’m only gonna make about 15 this year because I have a full time job now, and there’s only so many scenarios I can do with HLVRAI and the ACAB stream.)

[lowpolyskeletonz]

appears in your doorway.

Boomer.

BOOMER!

I ship it. So much. I love seeing old men in love. They beat eachother up and laugh and share smoothies with two black mesa silly straws. They are eachother rock and eachothers teddy bear. Need I say more?

Unpopular opinion? I don't think I have one. Sorry folks I'm very sheeple </3

[happymari-everyday]

Day 336! She had her Black Mesa Silly Straw

[hlvrai-twh]

It's better than sacrificing one of you or Mars. It's worth a try, isn't it?

*I guess- come on then let’s go back…*

“Uh- Gordon! Wait.”

“-Tommy told me that he left his Black Mesa silly straw back in the library and I promised I’d get it for him…”

*What? You want to go even further back the way we came ? Why didn’t Tommy tell me this?*

“After his scare in the library, he didn’t want to make you worry.”

[catlokis-blog]

(@official-hatsunemiku) gman enjoys drinking with silly straws. tommy and darnold actually got it from him.

the black Mesa official silly straws were suggested by gman in a the meeting where he was planting the seeds to cause the rescas and he seemed so passionate about those silly straws they ended up implimenting it

[a-substantial-trash-pile]

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First image is a messy sketch drawing of Bubby, Benry, and Gordon with text on the top saying “inventing a new and more exciting kind of bowling.” Bubby is in the middle of throwing an actively burning bowling ball at a bowling pin—except the bowling pin is on top of Benrey’s head. Benrey is sitting calmly in a chair facing Bubby, drinking a soda with a Black Mesa Silly Straw. Gordon is in the foreground looking shocked and yelling, “NO.”

Second image is a messy colored drawing of Coomer wearing a green Hawaiian shirt. He is standing near an aquarium sitting on a table. The aquarium contains sand, coral, some plants, and a Mantis shrimp. Coomer is looking at the tank with a happy smile and vacant eyes saying, “It’s as shrimple as that!”

Third image is a black/white drawing of just Benry’s head facing the viewer while their chin is angled slightly down. They’re smiling ominously, a black shadow completely covering the top half of his face. The background is a splattering of reds and blacks with white text above Benrey’s head saying, “Benry has won the argument.” This whole thing is supposed to be a parody of the “Gollum has won the argument” image from the Gollum game.

The fourth image is a collage of the three original memes/photos the drawings above are based on.

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currently working on a complicated whale render so to take a break from that i drew some quick shitty hlvrai doodles

gordon knows benry will be fine—he’s more concerned about his nice wooden floors. and that’s a mantis shrimp btw.

[miniaturedoctor]

another work doodle! this time featuring sody man

[omdrawings]

soda!

[batz]

bubby voice: the man’s 36, gordon!

[its-desca]

OK I like this!! The part that’s most interesting to me is the part about communicating in a place without air. Now at first I thought, oh, that’s space! That’s how they talk to eachother in space! But then I remembered that when the science team goes to zen the science team are still able to talk to eachother. But THEN I remembered that the science team consists of a guy wearing an HEV suit, a half alien, a cyborg, the perfect lab engineered scientist, so I think it’s valid to assume that they don’t exactly follow the same rules that the universe has set up.

Anyways, I think the idea that there’s something out there that’s more dangerous than Benrey is EXTREMELY interesting. Let me raise you another theory though. Tommy is that species. Or at least half of that species, and Gman is the full version of that species. Tommy is able to read the sweet voice, but he’s clearly not the same species as Benrey, as Gman is shown to have a completely different set of powers than Benrey. Gman is able to change the fabric of the world. Benrey is able to change the fabric of himself.

Gman changes the world around him by stopping time, teleporting people around, building areas (Chuck E Cheese), and being able to affect others (fixing Gordon’s hand). He and Tommy are also shown to be able to create NPCs as well (I headcanon Gman is controlling all the NPCs in black mesa but it’s canon that Tommy straight up MADE Sunkist). But even though Gmans species is able to do all of this stuff, he is never shown to be able to manipulate Benrey any way. If he was able to do that, he would have stopped Benrey from breaking the game and becoming the main antagonist, he would have stopped Benrey from being near Gordon, he would have stopped Benrey from ruining his cool speech during the time stop with PS+. Benrey, on the other hand, is able to fundamentally break the laws of physics, but only do so for himself. He can shapeshift, clip through walls, fly, ignore time stops, literally rip off all his skin to become a skeleton (debatable but that’s how I interpret that lmao), etc. But although Benrey can mess with himself, he can’t mess with the universe around him. If he could, he would have actually stopped Gordon at the door without his passport, he would have stopped the science team from defeating him.

Since we’ve determined that Gman and Benrey aren’t the same species, what exactly does that mean? Well, Tommy can read the Sweet Voice, and the rest of the science team can’t. So what’s different about Tommy than the rest of the science team? He’s the son of Gman. Why would Gman be able to read the Sweet Voice? Because his species is the one who Benreys biological warning is directed towards.

I think this actually explains the friendship between Benrey and Tommy. Benrey became friends with Tommy because he’s SCARED of him and wants to be on his good side.

Guess who has the highest kill count on the science team. Guess who tells Gordon that this high kill count is “All instinct”. It’s TOMMY. Tommy’s species is a predator. Everyone else is the prey.

What kind of “prey” Benrey is though is a different question. I’m about to get super meta, but I think that the way Gman’s species “feeds” is on a narrative. Since Benrey doesn’t abide by the rules of a narrative, he sends out warning signals in the way of Sweet Voice, and in return, Gman doesn’t mess with him the same way predators don’t mess with brightly colored animals. The ACTUAL prey are the rest of the science team, who are there to play roles in the story and provide the Gman with something to control, something to do. Without the story of the science team, Gman couldnt exist. Without prey, predators couldn’t exist.

I don’t think Gman’s species actually eats Benrey’s species for a couple reasons. First of all, we never see Tommy eat anything throughout the whole series, he’s extremely fixated on DRINKS (Soda, “peach tea going through a silly straw”, Powerade). The closest thing we get in reference to Tommy eating something is his fabled drawer full of loose Tic-Tacs, and 1, that isn’t exactly a meal, and 2, that’s a reference to Baaulps childhood drawer of Tic-Tacs. Tommy doesn’t kill people in the story because he’s gonna eat them or whatever, he kills them because they’re in the way of getting to the end of the story, even if he doesn’t know it.

Anyways, I think I’m gonna call this theory the Gspecies theory. Obviously RTVS didn’t plan anything like this out when making the series, but I love reading into this kind of stuff.

BENREY BIOLOGY: Sweet Voice

I HAVE MORE BUT THIS IS MY STOPPING POINT FOR NOW

Benrey Biology Booklet Sweet Voice | Shapeshifting/Size Altering | Internal Structure | Behavioral Patterns

Will add the links as I post 'em!

[abbiebsart]

I’m a year late but can I see your passport-

[squiddlysq]

Dark Teespring Show Me Forbidden Hlvrai Merch

[casketvamps]

barney has his Official Black Mesa Silly Straw™, what about you?

(edit made by @loufromgh)

[snailsdraw]

[Start ID: Screenshot of tumblr users joyflameball's and manoscience's comments reading "YES" and "i'd be interested!" respectively. /End ID.]

Alright, you've spoken (anything in brackets is an action and not part of the line)

Darnold lines in HLVRAI:

Hmm, hmm, let's see…19…20…21…22…23 unique flavours! Oohooooohoohoo, I can't wait to show them this.

What?

Hey!

Uh…alright?

I've been here for uhhh…been here for about 3 days!

I'm Darnold.

Darnold.

It can be!

Hey…hey, hey, hey! You gotta step away from my research! This is not soda. This is not a fine wine, I know what it says. This is not milk. I, am, in charge of the Mixology department.

Oh, the Cybernetics… (waiting for Coomer to finish speaking) Cybernetics Department? Uhh…they WERE here! THEY got their funding cut after their…ill-fated cybermutt project.

Ooh! Your hand's missing! What happened?

Ooh…is that, is that some, is that some GREEN in there I see? That's…that's not good. Cybernetics won't help you there.

That's…are you, are you a- still alive?

Well…y'know…y'know, I- I don't, that (makes this short concerned/at-a-loss sigh noise) how long have you had that off?

Ooh…

Studies show that the longest you can live without your hand is 1 day and 4 hours. I think we need to help ya out!

But- (waits for Gordon to finish speaking) mm, yeah! Don't y' know this? You're a scientist, aren't you? This is what they teach you in… (waits for Gordon to finish speaking again) this is what they teach you in EVERY doctorate. It's part of every PhD!

BeCAUSE, because I'll TELL you, I have been working on a top-secret project. (turns around to look at the barrel of potion in the corner of the room behind him) Potion.

The Powera- yes, a potion.

This…(starting to sound peeved) what do you think Mixology is, huh? What do you think Mixology is, Mr- I don't know what your name is.

Can you seed that for me please?

E- Well, anyways. Alright, keep- run that 3 times.

Uh. So. ANYways. Dr Freeman, you've dis- (Gordon interrupts briefly) you've disrespected my potions, which I DON'T like. However, a scientist- (Gordon overlaps) a scientist can't just live- (Gordon ends overlapping) oh- a scientist can't live happily knowing that somebody's had their hand off for a day and 3 hours. So, this is what I'm going to do. I'm gonna make use of my top-secret, government-funded, extreme, delicious potion. I'm gonna give you some, BECAUSE, it has, secret regenerative properties UNKNOWN to man.

Please don't sit on the potion.

Uhh…! Y' kn- y' knocked the damn potion! Over.

Alright- well, it's sideways.

Ye- yes! Uh- well, yes.

Y'see, I tried to put it in some beakers, I TRIED to put it in beakers, but I only had. 3. And they all melted when I… put the potions in them…But this is okay!

So… (Science Team overlaps) so, I'll just hold- (stares at Bubby who's sitting on the potion barrel in silence)

So- (interrupted by Gordon) luckily- LUCKily I've specifically designed this potion to ONLY violently expl*de after you sit on it 10 times.

Yes.

Yes, so, y'have- y'have to, you HAVE to drink the entire thing. Now, I'm holding it at the proper potion-sipping angle. So, just break out your Black Mesa official silly straw and get to slurpin', okay?

It's BROWN flavour.

Well…how d'you drink?

Okay, okay, so at the VERY least you have a mouth. We can work with this, we can work with this- here. I'm holdin' it, I'm still holdin' it at the proper angle. Now just put your mouth on it, aaand, get to, suckin'.

Whut?

Chug! Chug!

You're gettin' it in there! Oh!

The potion is working!

See? Look at 'im! It's…it's, it's definitely goin', it's- it's only supposed to taste like brown!

I don't- (nervous) it's only supposed to taste like brow- BROWN! What is the green? What does that taste like??

Ooh- uh- d-does he normally look like that?

Is he okay? Does he normally look like this?

(intrigue and concern) Ooh… (disturbed) ooh…

Well- I don't- uh, we've only tested this on. A mouse.

It's- brown is supposed to taste good!

Is- isn't that what your hand looked like before?

Uhh…well, uh. I guess, mm…well, that's why it's still top-secret.

(with Gordon panicking and overlapping) Well…uh…whud…it looks like, uh…it looks like some tubes…?

Well, I dunno- maybe- we, we shouldn't be letting this, STOP you. We should just treat this like a hand, right? So let's do some, uhh…let's do some uhhh physical therapy to get you used to your new hand.

Can you try, uhh, just uh… squeezin' your hand and making a… punch?

Wuh- THAT one. This is your new hand.

Try it!

Ahhh, I see, I see. This really IS just like your hand! You just, uhh, did…you just fired your fingernails from your fingertips, as people normally do.

Wow…I've increased your fingernail effectiveness by ten-thousand percent!

Hmm…y'know- hmm- I feel like there should be…I feel like there should be MORE to this. I mean, hands can do MORE than shoot their fingernails, uh…so what could be missing? What could be missing? Mm…

Well uh, Dr Freeman, I'm feelin' like, I'm feelin' like there's, something missing but, I'm notquitesure- PRESS ALL BUTTONS TO ACTIVATE DEVIL GUN MODE!!!

Mmm…I don't- mmm…what does what mean?

Buttons? What, what- that one?

Well, I mean. What're talkin' about buttons?

Ooh. You downloaded, you downloaded the Pyro update- delete that. Really- delete that right fckin' now.

Oh no. They've put potions on my computer.

(Tommy asks what the next flavour of powerade is) Whut? (Tommy repeats louder over Gordon's firings) Mmm…welll, I SHOULDN'T tell you this, but, we're working on an evil flavour.

But- anyways, that's, that's not important right now, Dr Freeman. What IS important is that I can't use my computer anymore, and so I can't do ANY more research.

It looks like I'm gonna have tuh…actually, where're you guys goin'?

The Lambda Lab? Oh, THAT'S fun.

Well- (Gordon asks him if he knows what's happened in Black Mesa) - no! There's no, button, for the lift, down here.

(asked if he's shot a gun before) Uhh…HMm…once or twice. Or maybe 19.

Well…well, k*lling can't be THAT hard, right?

Anyways, I think, that…I think that this might be, a bit of a dangerous journey. But, it's a journey worth taking. I believe I will come along.

Here! I have 2 crates filled with. Mystery gadgets if you want to take a look! I don't know if any of them are good. I didn't look.

(about the milk/cholorox on the floor that Benrey passed to Gordon) Oh, that's just the almond milk.

(on Gordon saying that now Darnold is the new Bubby since Bubby disappeared) I-

Wow! I can't BELIEVE I never opened that box.

Was it [this was unintelligable. tee???] when you all came down?

That's not mine.

Ooh, yes. This sounds like good fun with good buddies.

(asked if he needs a gun) Uh…let's see here…Dr Freeman, will this suffice?

Well. Well, honestly I. I. Be- I don't really have any idea, I just have an intuition that IF YOUR BODY IS NOT STRONG ENOUGH, YOU WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO ACTIVATE DEVIL GUN MODE!!!…I just, I just don't know…!

gonna reblog again and continue cuz we hit the word limit

hey, anyone interested in what i think might be the full list of darnold's lines from hlvrai minus bank heist?

[scrambled-greggs]

better to have a black mesa silly straw and not need it than need a black mesa silly straw and not have it eh gordon?

@wayneradiotv