#I found the phone BTW

[tadfools]

You guys are commenting on the fics you read right? You’re at least leaving kudos on the Astarion smut and the pairs that have less than 20 fics for them too? You’re bookmarking stories you really like that are still being updated and ones that haven’t been touched in over a year right?

You know that even the smallest interactions are like cocaine to fic writers right? You understand how important a string of emoji hearts left behind on a chapter at three am is right?? Right????

You’re treating AO3 like a community and not a content factory….right?

[allgreekbitch]

i looked up “marauders era ship names” and what the actual fuck happened here

[rainey-staerie-daize]

Tried to use the Internet to find an old phone I used to use, and I'm having similar feelings to how I feel about the robot dogs.

I'm amazed at what was apparently possible for the early 2000s, which I didn't know about when I was actively in that time period because I was a literal child. And at the same time, I'm sick to my stomach about how much time has passed.

And kinda mad at certain functionalities being removed with time. I pulled out my mom's old Toshiba laptop the other day, and Kare thought it was the most advanced thing she'd ever seen because it had extra buttons and a disc slot. I explained to her that it's actually rather old, and I'm still not sure she understands. For reference, Kare's eight years old and this laptop is the one that's missing most of the keys because she pulled them off as a small toddler. And we might've had it before then for a while, but I don't really remember.

I've been grieving old technology and the passage of time in general for a little while now. I'm not well. Someone help me.

I think Xan's tired of me rambling on about robot dogs. Too bad, LOL.

I just think they're so neat! Seeing all of the models lined up is like a tangible representation of what "futuristic" meant throughout the late 90s and early 2000s. They're a bygone era frozen in time that was rather advanced for its time that you can buy on eBay if you're lucky. And the ERS-7 is sassy!

Skye asked me why I was shopping when I don't have a job, but I'm legitimately just nerding out, so I was like, "dude, they're not even being sold anymore" and she's like "so you want the new one, gotcha."

Girl, if I had $3000 randomly laying around, I'd get some kinda transportation.

I have a job interview tomorrow, and if I land it, which I likely will according to Skye, then I'm gonna have a job soon. And I just might try to hunt down a black ERS-7M3 with my newfound money.

[slimey-wallz]

Attempting to be humorous while I'm sick is hard

Unless this made you smile or laugh or something-

Then YAY!!! MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!🎉🙏

[kraymerman]

I believe that there is a high likelihood that Alice survived episode 6.

...

Well okay, maybe "survived" isn't the right word, more like I believe that there is a high likelihood that Alice could come back from her death in episode 6.

Why do I think that? Well partly because she's one of my favorite characters and I want her to, but more prominently because she's come back from the dead before (if my theory is correct)!

Now, anyone who has spent some time in the Alice fandom knows about the list. She's in it, it deadnames her (evil trans queen), and so on and so forth. What matters to my post, though, is what her status is labelled as, which, chronologically, would have been her status at the time of Cabin Fever Labs's attempt at patching Nori of the Solver.

There she is, number 017, deadname scribbled out for respect. And what is her status? "Corrupted". Now, we don't know for sure what it means to be "corrupted" (trust me, I have spent several late nights/early mornings trying to figure it out), but my hypothesis is that the state we see Mika (032) and Jame (012) in are the result of being corrupted by a bad patch (Mika left, Jame right)

Chained up, sedated, kinda fleshy, and very dead, right? Now, to explain why I think this is what corruption looks like, it's just process of elimination. It can't be a successful patch because these guys aren't anything like Nori or Yeva (plus it does everything except outright say that Yeva was the first drone at Cabin Fever Labs to receive a successful patch).

Athough I could see a possibility where this is the result of a patch having no effect and the Solver lashing out, the part that hangs it up for me is that these drones wrote on the inside of their locker doors, meaning that they weren't killed then chained up inside of their lockers. It means that they were restrained inside of their lockers, then died on their own afterwards. That's not what would happen if the Solver was on a rampage. Also, even if the writing means nothing and these drones had ineffective patches, the Solver fought back, then they were offed, why would Cabin Fever Labs keep the dead bodies? Let alone chain them up and sedate them? They would've properly disposed of it so as to eliminate a potential host for the Solver, there's no reason they would have kept the body around if this was the product of a "no effect" patch.

So that leaves only one option: corruption. And just looking at it, this feels, at least to me, what "corruption" could look like. A sort of halfway between machine and flesh, chained up and sedated so as to get the spazzing drone from catching anyone, and a slow burnout after being confined in their locker (possibly kept alive so the scientists could see what happened). Seems pretty straightforward to me.

So to bring it back to my original point, this short-circuting freak out, a corruption of the mind, followed by a slow confined death. If this is an accurate evaluation of corruption, then that is what happened to Alice when they tried to patch her. What Mika and Jame look like? At the time of Nori's patching, Alice looked like that too. Despite that, though, she was still, through methods unknown to us, able to not only come back to life, but also completely reverse the fleshiness and return to looking like a completely normal worker drone (minus the knife tail, although I always assumed that that was a self-modification on her part considering it lacks any of the fleshiness characteristic of Solver Tails).

If she was able to come back unscathed from such a terrible fate then, then what's stopping her from using the same methods to come back from a simple head stomp? It was just her head that was crushed after all, not her core.

An addendum: "What Methods?!"

After reading my initial theory, I'm sure you're asking: "unknown methods? What does that mean?" Well I'm glad you asked, hypothetical person reading this that I made up in my head, because that lets me get into the biggest reason why I love Alice as a character so much. She doesn't make any sense according to the rules of the Murder Drones world that we already know. But not in a "she contradicts them", moreso a "she works in a different way", implying that there is a whole new set of rules in this world that exist, but we just don't know about them yet.

Anyone who thinks about Alice for more than a few minutes realizes very quickly how her existence as a drone admitted to Cabin Fever Labs makes no sense. She's very obviously been given the Solver, both because of her "corrupted" status on the list and the fact that she's even here at all, yet she also shows no symptoms of being possessed by the Solver or, most importantly, any signs of possessing the telekinesis/regenerative/create flesh limbs abilities inherent to all drones who possess the Solver, patched or otherwise. Not only that, but she also actively distances herself from drones who do, calling them "witches".

Hell, in the case of regeneration, she straight-up proves she doesn't have it when she replaces the tip of her finger that Uzi bit off with a new one instead of regenerating her old one.

In a comment section somewhere, I saw someone speculate that the reason Alice is like this is because she is asymptomatic to the effects of the Solver. This idea absolutely fascinates me, the idea that, for whatever reason, the Solver sits dormant in Alice's code instead of infecting her like it does all other drones. (I suspect that this is the reason why she was able to come back while other corrupted drones weren't. For a moment, something happened to kick her strand of the Solver out of it's dormancy to bring her back to life, before going dormant again.)

Even if my speculations don't end up being true, this idea that, in some drones, the Solver can lay dormant is still an entirely new concept, a new function of the Solver that we never see it display anywhere else. It's a treasure map hinting at a treasure trove of all-new lore waiting just at the end. The sheer promise Alice has is so exciting to me. There's so much there, hiding just below the surface I can feel it.

It is for this reason that, out of all the Murder Drones characters that go underutilized, Alice is the one that, I feel, is the most desperately deserving of an episode/mini comic series of her own. THERE IS SO MUCH GOING ON HERE, I CAN SMELL IT! WE JUST NEED TO GO A LITTLE DEEPER!!!

[dahldahlbills]

compliment his hair right now 🫵

[herbgerblin]

I’m not sure if this is just funny to me, but when I was at the mbmbam live show in DC, I briefly lost my phone. security located it right away, but everyone in the lost and found gave me a funny look when they handed my phone back. it wasn’t until I sat back down that I remembered that this image was my lockscreen:

ID: Digital drawing for kravitz (specifically attypf), a human man with brown skin, dark facial hair and locs, and a musical build. His is wearing dark grey athletic clothing. Sitting on his shoulder is Cat Taco, a white long haired kitten. End ID.

Which isn’t that embarrassing considering the things I’ve drawn that could have alternatively been my lockscreen. But for a second I felt very dorky in a performance hall full of wizards.

[iwant-fuitgummi]

made some archon (+scara bc he's got a similar constellation) backgrounds for funises

[cranberrymoons]

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[rtgame-fun-facts]

Fun fact: Rtgame is very kissable

wuh

[borrelia]

trying to shop for something on etsy and getting bombarded with sponsored results for pregnancy hypnosis I DON'T WANT THAT!! I WANT STICKERS OF HATSUNE MIKU!!!

[aq2003]

[wipes tear from eye] they're all so fucking stupid (x)

[the-acid-pear]

Sold my first adopt yesterday and i didnt even realize i feel like i headbutted a cloud rn

[xmilkteafoxx]

pov: ur at a carly rae jepsen concert but ur phone battery is dying so u can only take videos on a shitty compact camera u got for the grainy #y2k aesthetic photos but also ur so short u can barely even see the stage so this is all you have to show from that night

[eugeniedanglars]

i am a top quality drunk bitch poster if i do say so myself even if i do reach drunk bitch state alarmingly easily. asking my tumblr followers where my phone is is top notch

[funsizedcrow]

some pose practicing that i turned into rvbs