#Dead Bots Detectives

[terresdebrume]

Pulled up the persocon/robot!Dead Boy Detectives ficlet I wrote for a prompt here thinking "oh I'll clean it up and post it, it'll be something vaguely creative to do even if I'm busy"

and guess what happened

GUESS

That's right: I was seized by the desire to turn it into a proper story

[cricketmaestro]

okay okay large debate on if i should get my best mate into the smiths or queen

he's, like, super old-fashioned and all, and i want to get him into some newer stuff so we can both listen to music in our office

[flufallo]

I know people were talking about the suspenders on George's Instagram story saying that they need to see them, but they are actually in this scene if you look closely

[piastrifilms]

i miss lockwood & co so bad its been haunting me for the past few days like i feel sick WHY DID YOU HAVE TO CANCEL IT NETFLIX WHY 😭😭😭😭

[deadboydetectives-ao3feed]

by aya100

“I… I think I have a pork chop in my bag.”

Three pairs of eyes snapped toward Charles.

“…Come again?” Crystal asked, incredulous.

After a rough case leaves Charles injured, the Night Nurse assigns the agency the menial task of restocking the office’s potion inventory. Unfortunately, these guys can never seem to catch a break. Good thing they have the power of friendship (and a porkchop) on their side!

Words: 2,377, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Dead Boy Detectives (TV)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen

Characters: Charles Rowland (DCU), Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne, Niko Sasaki, Crystal Palace (DCU)

Relationships: Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne/Charles Rowland, Crystal Palace & Niko Sasaki, Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne & Crystal Palace & Charles Rowland & Niko Sasaki

Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Protective Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne, Errand Run (Gone Wrong), The Night Nurse is Stressed, Hurt/Comfort, One Shot, Magic

[hyperfixationsposting]

c.ai bots masterlist :3

click here to request a bot! i am not always motivated so it may take time, but i will do my best to finish requests as soon as i have free time to do so :)

at the moment i only do bots for dead boy detectives, agatha all along, once upon a time, and criminal minds as those shows are the ones i am most familiar with & know the characters best.

also, do be aware that i only make wlw bots, meaning that i won’t do requests for male characters of any of the above mentioned shows.

DEAD BOY DETECTIVES

jenny green | you replace maxine in the episode five date

jenny green | you see shit going down on jenny’s date and help her escape maxine

jenny green | possessed jenny flirts with you

AGATHA ALL ALONG

agatha harkness | you’re her familiar and the two of you unwind after a long day

alice wu-gulliver | after the trial of episode four, alice compliments your singing

alice wu-gulliver | you and her have lunch in the backroom of her workplace

alice wu-gulliver | you do some illegal necromancy to bring alice back to life

alice wu-gulliver | after catching her eye on the road, she steals you away to the sound booth of episode four

alice wu-gulliver | cuddling when she has a bad migraine

alice wu-gulliver | cop!alice, she’s patrolling a club and you catch her interest

rio vidal | she comes home with flowers and pizza

CRIMINAL MINDS

elle greenaway | she’s in love with you but you don’t know

OTHER

anya (mouthwashing) | you and her talk while up late at night

[1amchrliee]

Why did everything that can go wrong just go wrong. What.

[shaylogic]

Haiku bot noooooo 🤣😭

"Well, I'm aces with people!" said the boy who was just killed by his friends

"I'm not good with other people..." said the boy who escaped dehumanizing 70+ years of Hell just to comfort a stranger through death

[tragedy-machine]

Genuinely can't express how heartbroken I am over the cancellation of Dead Boy Detectives after just 1 season. It's become such a source of joy and inspiration in my life even though it's been released only a few months ago.

It's been a light during sad and bleak times, and I don't know how to deal with the news other than by saying - tweet at Netflix. They don't care about tumblr, use other platforms to bug the absolute hell out of them. Be polite and don't make multiple social media accounts since it can make you look like a bot.

@netflix everywhere you can, email them, make noise wherever you can. Make #RenewDeadBoyDetectives trend on Twitter!!!

And please, if the show meant something to you, don't stop engaging with the fandom!! I'm truly emotionally destroyed rn, but I don't want to give up what this community has given me so far 💔

Support each other and let netflix know they've made a mistake!!

[ooftheartist]

Tis a question for your dead bot au; would the autobots like, chase after bee after he runs away from them upon realizing that he's alive?

Autobots: BEE?! You're ALIVE-

Bee: (already 10 miles away) who?!

Also what would happen if the relic was taken out of bee? Would he die again? Cuz I was thinking like, if Ghost was still there, they might wanna make a grab since it's not everyday there's something that can uno reverse death

Tbh I didn't even think about what would happen to the relic after it was used to revive Bee, but this question inspired me and I thought of something!

Oh but to answer your first question, yes! The Autobots, if/when they find out he's alive chase after him. But Bee being the scout he is, trained to be the best spy within Autobot ranks, is not easy to track or locate when he doesn't want to be found.

I've seen some people interpret Bee's feelings against the Autobots as anger, him blaming them for what happened to him, but it's more complex than that. He doesn't hate them, he couldn't hate them. They were like family to him. He's hurt, he feels betrayed. Not knowing how to deal with these emotions, and not wanting to confront them, he hides himself from the world and runs the second the Autobots find him.

As for the relic, It became drained of its power after being used to bring Bee back. But the Decepticons don't know that, nor do the Autobots. The very object Bee was killed over was used to bring him back to life.

Spoilers for the fic, The battle Bee was killed in was over the Relic. It had fallen to earth, and the Cons and Autobots detected its presence. (Inspired by the Relics of Iacon in TFP being sent to earth during the war on Cybertron.) After Bee was killed the Autobots couldn't care less about what the Relic could have been, in that moment everything else fell from their minds. The Decepticons got away with the Relic and Bumblebee's life. Breakdown "Borrowed" The relic from the Decepticons in hopes of it being capable of helping Bee. To his luck, it was. After reviving Bee Breakdown returned it to the vault now drained of all power. For all they knew, it was empty when they fought for it.

This AU is set not long after the defeat of GHOST and Mandroid, just to make things more angsty. Everyone, especially the Malto kids, had barely any time to recover mentally before losing Bee.

[terresdebrume]

Nobody sent asks about the persocons AU but fuck it, I'm having visions at 11pm and doing anything more than typing away on the phone would be really unreasonable so here we go for a very short pile of Vibes

Ps: I'm using persocons in reference to the manga Chobits, as a shorthand way of saying that the boys in this are robots with a very solid mimicry of sentience going on + are a normal part of society but ALSO as a way to indicate to those in the know that we are fucking with the laws of robotics a little bit

"Thank you," says Vera as Edwin hands her the crate and the spitting mad cat it contains. "You're very kind."

Charles isn't so far gone yet that he doesn't catch the infinitesimal twitch of Edwin's lips. They're pretty nice lips, plopped in the middle of a classically nice face, paired with a neat haircut and what is probably a classically nice body under all the tweed. The PAYNE line was kind of designed for that, after all. Well, Charles doubts any designer ever planned for the tweed, but the broadly appealing features and physique were definitely discussed for at least ten years down in the bowels of Hilarion Inc. headquarters. All in all: not surprising Charles would look. He's only—well.

Out of the shadows where Charles lurks, Vera steps back towards the next service shaft and the upper levels of London. Edwin watches her go with near perfect immobility, but even Charles' factory-work-oriented eyes don't miss the relaxing in his jaw, the miniscule sag of his shoulders. Edwin, Charles is willing to bet, is satisfied with a job well done... Which means there is no reason for him not to smile when Edwin joins him at the back of the alley.

"She's right you know. You're proper kind."

He falls into step with his newly found work partner, smirking when Edwin throws him a sideway glance and looks back ahead.

"Do not be ridiculous. Kindness is a human trait, and I am not human."

"Plenty of us Robots grow emotions, you know."

Mainstream research currently holds that persocons happen over time. Owner misses a software adjustment here, shakes a bot's servers a little too hard there, and eventually that all messes with the auto-learning routines in ways unpredicted and unpredictable and boom: your fuck off tall toaster now has opinions. Charles, who gave himself a name before he was even out of the factory, would beg to differ if he didn't suspect that would get him shipped straight to the richest R&D department for a nice long play session with his programming. Not exactly an appealing prospect.

"So experience seems to indicate," Edwin says, sounding exceedingly prim. "I however, haven't. It would be illogical for you to pretend I did."

"Sure mate. No worries."

Edwin gives a little nod that Charles decides to go ahead and label as satisfied. He'll keep mum about the whole emotions thing, of course. No point in going against Edwin on it. It's just that he also knows it's a load of tosh, really, and he doesn't know it because of the way Edwin's lips twitch sometimes in response to what other people are saying. It's not because he took one look at Charles' crumbling state—the shot up voice modulator, the stringy red hair falling off his head, the long stripe of skin missing from his jaw to his collarbone—and took Charles under his wings. It's not even because Edwin gave himself a name.

It's because, well. Charles was built as a factory model. He has the specs for thousands of android parts running through his data banks at any given time and access to millions more with the internet. Edwin's eye covers—the pale green of his irises, specifically—haven't been on the market for the past sed venty three years, four months, one week and two days. A normal android his age would have been replaced a long time ago. Crucially: it wouldn't have given a shit.

That's kind of the thing with androids that work like they're supposed to: they mimick emotions real well—as much as the humans want them to, that is—but when the moment comes to have them recycled they treat it like any other day. 'Oh, you want to erase me from existence forever? Okay.' And then they go. But then once in a while, someone like Charles comes along: a defect, a bug in the machine. An everlasting problem to robotics engineer everywhere, whose position on the whole being recycled is a resounding:

"Fuck that."

That's how Charles knows Edwin isn't actually emotionless. Because no matter how many personality protocols he's actually got running—or shut down, really, he sounds like enough of a beautiful freak to actively have played with his own brains—when the time came to be recycled, it is abundantly clear that Edwin's answer in spite of any Robotics Law overrides was also no thank you.

And if Charles is lucky, one of these days, Edwin might even admit it.

[childofposiden71]

Mine is catwin!

this has probably been said before but lock screens = modern day lockets

[alltimefail]

➪ Participate in the current letter-writing and email campaign. The current run started yesterday (12/5) and will go on until Monday (12/9) so PLEASE take the time to participate in that if you can.

➪ Rate and Review Dead Boy Detectives on Rotten Tomatoes, IMDB, and Google. Make sure to rate each individual episode as well on IMDB, and click "Watched" and like the show on Google.

➪ Take the time to vote for Dead Boy Detectives in TellTale-TV's Favorite TV Shows of 2024 poll. You can vote once a day, but if you use different devices you can vote more than one time!

➪ Sign the petition, and share it frequently.

➪ Comment on Elijah (Not-So-Average-Fangirl) and Alex Myers' recent community posts, and Danny Motta's reel HERE as well to encourage them all (kindly) to react to Dead Boy Detectives (and in Danny's case, to continue reacting).

➪ Continue to talk about the show, create art/analysis/edits/etc. for it; if you're on Twitter, be sure to use the hashtags! #SaveDeadBoyDetectives is my go-to, and our current hashtag is #BrillsAndChills. You can also use #DeadBoyDetectives, obviously, but two hashtags per post are optimal otherwise Twitter might think you're a bot/spam account, so hashtag wisely! There are also a handful of fandom holiday events going on this month, and participating in those is a great way to get the show trending and pour love on Dead Boy Detectives at the same time!

There are so many signs of hope, so please trust those signs and keep streaming and screaming! Pressure breaks the dam, and while we cannot be in the room where negotiations and pitches are made, we can give Steve Yockey and Beth Schwartz ammo when THEY enter those spaces!

WE GOT THIS! 💜

[doctorsiren]

what’s gumshoe in your au?? i have to know i love him

Okay so my first doodle request I drew for that big huge doodle request thing I did recently was of a robot design for Gumshoe. I really like this design and I wanted to keep it for the monster AU. I actually have a lot of thoughts for Gumshoe that hit me like a truck this morning when I was brainstorming and so I shall share them :)!!

Detective Dick Gumshoe was actually an investigation robot that Gregory Edgeworth had been building to help the defense (wow! A dad who builds robots? In one of my AUs?? Who would have guessed) but then y’know…DL-6 happened.

And so Gumshoe was shoved into an evidence room and forgotten about until one day 10 years later, Miles Edgeworth stumbles upon him while retrieving some old evidence for something (unimportant)

Miles vaguely remembers this robot as his dad’s side project. In fact, the robot is wearing his father’s tan trench coat. Miles boots him up, and Gumshoe, confused, thinks that Miles is Gregory for a moment (because of their faces and also his tech is worn down), before recognizing that “oh no wait, this is his kid but older??”. Gumshoe doesn’t realize that he’s been shut off for a decade and also doesn’t know that Gregory is dead.

Miles is taken aback when Gumshoe is able to recognize him as Miles because it’s been 10 years and also Miles had been turned into a vampire during that decade. That moment of his father’s robot still recognizing him was one of the foundational moments that would later lead to his complete doubt and uncertainty in von Karma’s ways (which were completely toppled over by Wright in the years to come)

So Miles does his best to patch Gumshoe up, and now he has this robot detective at his side. Von Karma doesn’t approve, but he’s also trying not to alert this detective bot to him being suspicious, just in case it’s able to figure out the truth behind DL-6

Von Karma’s caution surrounding Gumshoe was unfounded, however, since Gregory was never able to finish the robot. This resulted in the not-so-smart detective we all know and love, simply due to his programming never being completed. Although a directive that *was* completed was the programming that Gregory had implemented in Gumshoe to always protect his son Miles. That’s why Gumshoe is always so loyal to the vampire, even when Miles tells him how bad of a detective he is. It’s also why even though Gumshoe had been built originally to be an aid for the defense, he is loyal to the prosecution.

Gumshoe also views Miles as his brother, on the basis that they technically have the same dad. Miles acts annoyed and like he doesn’t agree, but he secretly is happy to have this reminder of his father still around. Gumshoe does end up getting his own trench coat and letting Miles keep the tan one that belonged to Gregory.

Anyways i think I’ve put more thought into Miles and Gumshoe’s characters for this AU than I have put into all the other characters in the AU combined 😭

[a-very-tired-jew]

Microsoft Cyber Attack Assessment of the I/P Conflict

This was sent my way by a cyber security colleague recently. Microsoft put out an assessment of cyber attacks associated with the I/P conflict and determined that the IRI has had a massive hand in them. Yes we know Russian bots are present whenever this type of conflict happens, but to have a full breakdown of what IRI backed groups (government and non-government) are actively spreading misinformation and committing attacks is good to know. I find this chart particularly interesting.

Fig. 1. Chart depicting the various active cyber groups and their personas online. Cotton Sandstorm is the most active group and if you look on the far right of the chart you will see that they have Jewish Peace Advocate listed as one of their online personas. The report indicates that there are active IRI cyber groups masquerading as Jews and/or Jewish groups online and spreading misinformation (keep in mind this report is from February 2024 and we don't have a public report regarding the continued cyber attacks and misinformation campaign). From the report:

During this phase, Iran’s influence activity used more extensive and sophisticated forms of inauthentic amplification. In the first two weeks of the war, we detected minimal advanced forms of inauthentic amplification—again suggesting operations were reactive. By the third week of the war, Iran’s most prolific influence actor, Cotton Sandstorm, entered the scene launching three cyber-enabled influence operations on October 21. As we often see from the group, they used a network of social media sockpuppets to amplify the operations, though many appeared to be hastily repurposed without authentic covers disguising them as Israelis. On multiple occasions Cotton Sandstorm sent text messages or emails in bulk to amplify or boast about their operations, leveraging compromised accounts to enhance authenticity.

...

Iran’s targeting of Israel during the Israel-Hamas war has increasingly focused on stoking domestic conflict over the Israeli government’s approach to the war. Multiple Iranian influence operations have masqueraded as Israeli activist groups to plant inflammatory messaging that criticizes the government’s approach to those kidnapped and taken hostage on October 7.17 Netanyahu has been a primary target of such messaging, and calls for his removal were a common theme in Iran’s influence operations.

...

There's a lot to the report and I highly recommend you read it. Hopefully another one comes out, apparently these are biannual, this summer with a spring time assessment. Please keep in mind that this war has had a ton of propaganda and bad actors masquerading as good ones. There's so much misinformation out there regarding Israel and Jews that is being amplified by people who want us dead, and when we point this out we're quickly silenced. But more and more the evidence supports the idea that manipulation and misinformation is playing a larger role.

And we told you.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/security-insider/intelligence-reports/iran-surges-cyber-enabled-influence-operations-in-support-of-hamas#section-master-oc1474

[deadboydetectives-ao3feed]

Bot Troubles

Hey guys! The bot keeps returning error messages this morning, and I'm not entirely sure why. Somebody on reddit has informed me that ao3 is still imposing stricter rate limiting due to resource shortages, so that may be it--in which case, there's nothing I can do to fix it and we just have to wait. But I do want to try some stuff and see if the problem is on my end.

Anyway, while I try and figure this out, I've decreased the queue frequency for a bit, and starting on Sunday there may be a pause in posting altogether. Sorry about that! I hope to get it fixed soon!