#ITS ABOUT THE ‘laws’ OF THE UNIVERSE
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was anybody going to tell me or was i just supposed to catch up on tdp myself
#ITS ABOUT THE CHILDREN YOU CANT SAVE DRIVING YOU TO BECOME HORROR INCARNATE FOR THOSE IN THE PRESENT#ITS ABOUT YOUR COSMIC SINS BEING JUDGED BY AN ARBITRARY AND UNJUST MEMBER OF YOUR OWN PEOPLE#ITS ABOUT THE GRIEF#HEY. HEY CAN YOU HEAR ME IN HERE#i thought he was interesting bc they gave him a fake kid but now you tell me#he had a REAL ONE#and she DIED. BADLY???#and now he doesn’t care about the other children he creates?#or the lesser beings he interacts with???#tdp#ffxiv#meg speaks#[chews on the galvus firstborn] [chews on the startouch elves]#DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME. ITS ABOUT THE GRIEF OF THE PARENT.#ITS ABOUT THE ‘laws’ OF THE UNIVERSE#before u come after me w ‘emet selch had entirely different motivations-‘#this is specifically in relation to him as a deliberately abusive parental figure post-lucius#he is repeatedly shown interacting with a creating and using children after his mysterious firstborn whom he loved#(varis. vauthry. potentially zenos.)#and there is Very Much the feeling that he may have loved his firstborn…and he will never make that mistake again#so. anyway.#rraghararahararararraraghd#(<- sound of me using The Parallels as chewtoys)
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something about people calling vrisrezi "toxic yuri" always puts me off. i understand the lack of words to really put their dynamic but like you know theyre in a relationship thats largely good for them right. they arent dating because "it sucks but it would be worse without each other" they genuinely really love each other a lot
#just as a baseline understanding here i am outright stating that their moiraillegance is a romantic relationship which includes kissing etc#if u cannot meet me on that level i dont think i really want to discuss vrisrezi with you#anyways its just so weird to me i dont know. i dont have a super great way of articulating it#they do Need each other they are codependent and its not necessarily healthy#but unhealthy does not equal toxic#they dont hurt each other on purpose they make each other so so happy and they do so much for each other and thats what makes them worse#because as much as they are universally destined to be together by the Laws of Paradox Space they are also universally doomed#and i mean straight up like. terezi is vriska's fp i feel like this is a given with the almost unambiguous bpd coding of vriska#and that isnt a type of relationship that vriska serket and terezi pyrope are exactly going to understand or manage well#but i also think that calling a favorite person relationship toxic by the nature of it regardless of who specifically is in it#is really gross? and harmful? and it doesnt make you sound cool when you talk about vrisrezi like that#ok wow this got really really out of hand. vrisrezi isnt really “toxic” if you read the comic thank you good night#vriska#terezi#my posts ::::)
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its prosecutor jiang wanyin!!!! oh fuck!!! / gifs + au rambling below the cut / follow for more mdzs x aa crossover stuff :3
all the gifs i made (poses traced off franziska):
hes so similar to franziska when you think about it. theyre both deeply insecure tsundere adoptive younger sibling of successful main characters. who carry whips. something something edgeworth choosing death and wwx actually dying also
his share code is HWFEFF if you wanna use him in a trial! you can't share backgrounds but heres the scenery from the donghua i used.
the easiest way to put custom stuff into objection.lol is to send it in discord and then use the link from opening it in your browser :)
a whole lot of AU stuff
the art im making is for if mdzs was an ace attorney game, playing from WWX's POV to solve various mysteries/cases over the course of the plot. so this scene would be from turnabout goddess, which would loosely cover the dafan mountain mystery.
cases include:
Turnabout Revenge (Mo Manor, quick introductory first case)
Turnabout Goddess (Dafan mountain, the good times flashback)
Turnabout Saber (the man-eating castle (omg hiii nhs))
The Blind Turnabout (Yi City arc)
Turnabout Deviation (the Koi Tower conference, Empathy on NMJ ala turnabout memories or beginnings. opening cutscene is his qi deviation)
The Blood-Soaked Turnabout (second Burial Mounds siege, flashbacks: Xuanwu, Sunshot, YLLZ, Nightless City massacre)
Turnabout Lotus Seeds (testimony about JGY, tree scene, golden core reveal, bathtub scene. opening cutscene could be JGS' death but that would make it canon rather than ambiguous)
Turnabout Confession (Guanyin temple)
the problem with splitting novel!mdzs into turnabouts is that flashbacks are a huge chunk of the book but they don't have mysteries/ cases to solve so they've gotta be lumped together with present day stuff. imo? many of the flashbacks would likely have to be abridged so they could be retold ala DL-6, SL-9, or the fourth grade incident, where characters talk about it over some pieces of art. this is really difficult when theres a metric ton of unspoken, complex, and signifcant history between every character lmao
there's not as much of a problem with the cql timeline but i have not finished it. so.
the opening cutscenes in ace attorney always show the murder and/or the murderer plotting. the first cutscene of the game would be MXY summoning WWX, muttering about getting revenge on his family (it would also be good for him to mention the yllz being dead because that's how the novel starts.) cut to WWX's POV as he wakes up covered in blood and the investigation segment begins.
for investigations of monsters (goddess, saber, etc) the cutscene would be a scene of some poor throwaway cultivator getting their shit wrecked.
it would be cool to make a breakdown for JGY but again I need to review that scene cause I don't know who I'd base him on. maybe Vasquez or Dahlia.
tell me your thoughts!! i'm working off of a mdzs summary/ skimming the novel because i don't remember it too well so if i get anything wrong please yell at me
Jin Ling's sprites & Nie Huaisang's sprites / masterpost
#PLEAAAASE send it to me if you do actually use my animations in a case🥺#here im adapting mdzs to aa gameplay rather than making a mdzs AU where they are lawyers#so jiang cheng is not a prosecutor in this hes just angry. and on the right side of the screen#that man has not graduated law school but then again no one in ace attorney has either#the names are based off of how ace attorney cases are either named after a distinctive item/location (bigtop bridge samurai etc)#or the main emotional/character type thing that happens (goodbyes reminiscence farewell)#the mdzs/aa au where the stories get blended (ie my tags on the nhs post) is very interesting but i would have to think about it very hard#and i dont want to . i would rather think about what the court record would look like (its full of severed limbs)#MDZS' EXPLORATIONS OF MORALITY MAKE ME CHEW ON ROCKS#urrgh i got carried away writing this post & wrote a couple hundred words comparing aa and mdzs' attitudes towards morality & public opinio#i could write an essay on this topic tbh.#can i call this an au? its the same story in the same universe just in a different format. hmm#mdzs#aa#art#mo dao zu shi#ace attorney#grandmaster of demonic cultivation#cql#the untamed#jiang cheng#jin ling#objection.lol#flashing image tw#pixel art#animation#my art#franziska von karma#i guess??#mdzs aa au
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i don’t know if i’m ever gonna write the fic but i’ve been thinking abt like. the eternal stockade. the implications. lup, a lich who was trapped in a dark featureless cell for a decade completely isolated with nothing to keep her sanity but her own mind. she has to put people in the eternal stockade. how many liches does she see herself in. how many liches started out just like her. how many liches are truly too far gone. and the only liches we ever see other than her and barry are edward and lydia. they’re certainly evil, but mad? they seem pretty sane. they’re not, like, tattered echoes of souls, they’re definitely still people. even as much of a grudge as lup surely has against them, wouldn’t they remind her incredibly strongly of herself? do they deserve to be trapped just like she was? for eternity? isn’t eternity what turned john to existential despair in the first place?
#mine#taz balance#taz lup#lup#like idk i think lup’s down to kick necromancer ass but when it comes to being like. WARDENS of a PRISON. would that not be uncomfortable??#but like taking the job is the only way to avoid HER being thrown in prison??#idk the raven queen being a cool & chill goddess boss is definitely fun but when you actually think abt it#i don’t think i’d agree with her. i think if i lived in that world i’d think she were sort of evil#which like also to get into the hunger vs authority its not very explored because its not at all the point#the hunger is meant to be nihilism and despair and dissatisfaction its at its core an emotional story about joy & love#but like john starts out rebelling against laws. laws of the universe; except that it turns out a being wrote those laws (jeffandrew)#so the hunger is also sort of a force of rebelling against unjust constraints in the pursuit of freedom?#and the heroes end up preserving the status quo and saying you just have to find joy within those unjust limitations#which again. like. the point is that life is unfair and you can find joy and meaning despite it. which is true to real life.#i’m not saying the hunger was right or that despair is the only way or w/e like#yk like taz balance is not a story about society its more about. philosophy i guess#the point is that life’s really hard and you find meaning anyway and that’s preferable to despair and death#thematically for the audience we understand these are standins for ways of viewing reality#and in the real world reality is what it is. its just the world. there’s no authority that writes the laws of nature#like its not a ‘man vs authority’ story its a ‘man vs nature’ story#but IN UNIVERSE nature IS an authority. jeffandrew and the gods. regardless of how much joy you can find in an unjust world#if i lived in it i’d want to make it more just! but anyway like yeah barry & lup working for the raven queen#is kinda an extension on that idea of preserving the status quo#although i guess you could say gods are just forces of nature. theyre not PEOPLE theyre just personifications of existent natural laws#and it ties in w istus and fate as well#although fate is like a comforting guiding force rather than restricting & horrifying#^ pay no attention to any of this i don’t think it really means anything i’m just like. writing thoughts as i have them#not like a hard stance i’m taking just exploring some ideas#any ways#THERES A TAG LIMIT??
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I'm really tempted to comb through his lines about luck and write meta on it, because even off the top of my head, looking only at DR2/Dangan Island content, it's like
His FTEs frame bad luck as being part of good luck: bad thing leads into something good enough to compensate
But he has at least one Dangan Island line where he anticipates something bad after experiencing something good
And interestingly considers nothing much happening to him to be bad luck in Dangan Island's ending, even though he had a good time, which warrants some unpacking (my current hypothesis is it's because his impending death is making him desperate to make his life meaningful, not 'waste' his remaining time)
Not all of his examples fall neatly into his luck cycle model, especially not the FTE version where the events are connected. The diagnosis and HPA admission were separate-ass events, in DI's ending he expected his convo with Hinata to go well because of the aforementioned general '''bad''' luck too, the events of chapter 5 are hard to sort into the model, some DI interactions make it sound like he just has extreme outcomes sometimes (eg. he'd win capture the flag first try every single time), etc etc.
I have a feeling at least some of the way he talks about his luck is copium, especially in his FTEs since he really had to focus on the idea of bad -> good in the killing game. But as you say, he could have been intentionally oversimplifying... and if he actually thought the cycle worked both ways, saying he lives in fear of bad things every time something good randomly happens might've veered too close to genuine vulnerability. Which he avoided (by his standards anyway- I think he lacked awareness of how bad the kidnapping + plane stories were) until the final FTE.
Either way, I definitely need to scrutinise his lines more :'D
A ton of good points! Komaeda’s luck is fascinating and nowhere near as clear-cut as he originally makes it sound. Fics where he tries to “game the system” and finally gain some sort of control over his luck are interesting—but honestly, I feel like he’s already been trying to do that for as long as he’s lived. And he exercises an impressive amount of power under those restraints! But…also.
As for anticipating something bad after experiencing something good, I do think the way Komaeda portrays the order of events is just what he tells himself and/or Hinata. In reality, good and bad luck are two sides of the same coin to him—the real important part isn’t the order, it’s that nothing good can happen without something bad happening too. Everything has a price. Luck is a zero-sum game.
(He touches on this again in 2.5 when he says there’s “a fixed amount of luck in the world” and so he’s content to suffer the bad luck for everyone else’s benefit. In the dream-world sim, the luck he experiences is apparently “ideal”, but it still has to exist. There still has to be an Omelas child of sorts. Komaeda would just rather it be himself.)
As for good being caused by bad vs. just following it, it definitely happens both ways and he’s definitely contradicted himself. Beyond that, even, there are cases in the game where it’s not totally clear what sort of cycle is involved in the luck he experiences. In 2-1, he draws the short straw simply because he wanted to. Was the bad…offscreen? Was it the killing game itself? Would “being forced to clean” actually count as bad luck even if he wanted it? Was it then followed by the good luck of finding the secret passage? People hypothesize that his luck works differently in the simulation according to his own belief, which would complicate things even more, but I’m sort of back-and-forth on that theory. There are arguably examples of luck working the way Komaeda claims it does in DR2, also—such as getting the Despair Disease the worst out of anyone thanks to his compromised immune system, but being able to discover in the hospital that Tsumiki was the culprit. ending up in the hospital but meeting a lovey-dovey nurse GONE WRONG
I’ve always read the Island Mode ending as copium myself. I do definitely think he was hoping for a chance to die meaningfully on the island, and I guess in his mind that could be bad luck, but it doesn’t really fit his model. The way he tries to nudge Hinata into agreeing it’s bad luck, the scene reads to me like he just needs to believe it’s bad luck so he can solemnly ask Hinata to be his friend. (And I think it’s notable that in the word he uses for friend here is 友達 tomodachi, which in this context could be understood as more of a personal friend—everywhere else, he’s used the word 仲間 nakama, comrades, to refer to the whole class as a unit.) And remember, being loved by someone is another way that Komaeda’s death could have meaning—so even if he didn’t end up in the climactic situation he was expecting, perhaps he’s realized there’s another way to get what he wants. :’)
But, yeah, what decides if something is good or bad luck for Komaeda though? I think even that’s not always clear to him.
I’ve heard the view that it “gives him what he immediately wants while taking away what is subconsciously valuable to him” (from TheAmityElf, I think) which is interesting, especially to play with as a writing tool, but not ultimately convincing. Some events could be loosely mapped to that pattern, but others contradict it a bit—you can’t tell me he just wanted money, and he did actively try to turn down his invitation to Hope’s Peak.
Which is now also making me think: Since the diagnoses and the invitation weren’t directly related, do you think he even connected them in his mind at first? What if he didn’t, and so he was afraid that by going to Hope’s Peak he would be invoking even more bad luck yet to come?
One more interesting dimension of his luck to think about is whether it hurts others vs. himself. In 2.5 it only hurts Komaeda, but that’s not quite the direct opposite of his real luck, because his real luck gave him cancer and dementia! However, it also does seem to be proactive in protecting him from actual death in both 2.5 and the rest of canon.
I’ll conclude this reply with this…relevant blackout poetry (blackout infographic?) I made years ago and which you suddenly reminded me of, lmao.
Silly coda: This is why Komaeda’s favorite word is eucatastrophe.
(…How lucky, then, that people say “Komaeda, eucatastrophe!” to him all the time!)
#nagito komaeda#komaeda lore#text#komahina#language#translation#ask#it is not a coincidence that the infographic was about Kurt Vonnegut’s theory of story structures#i’ve been thinking a lot about luck too as a sort of meta thing#a ‘story-enforcing’ or ‘canon-enforcing’ or ‘plot-enforcing’ force.#luck as an avatar of the dr universe and its very fabric and rules.#luck is fictionalizing. it follows the laws of plot and conflict#Komaeda comes off as very slightly meta aware because of all that luck has taught him
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choosing to think that Imogen rolling poorly is because of an unknown, extradimensional Bailey Effect. Somewhere out there, unbeknownst to her, Jester Lavorre is accidentally siphoning away all of her good luck and universal wiggle room for things like 'inventing unicorn hamsters" "slightly altering the fabric of space and time to dunk on an enemy" "putting hats on the unicorn hamsters". and thats why, in the meantime, sometimes when imogen does her dang best to cast a spell she falls down a flight of stairs. or turns blue.
#i like to think that in parallel with imogen Going Through It jester lavorre is somewhere out there using the universes favor for the most#arbitrary thing. like its very specifically NOT about the magic its about the universe deciding to give wiggle room or let things slide#imogen is pinball-machining thru space and time . meanwhile jester is forcefully reworking some spell laws for a funny lil prank#critical role#ill watch the rest of the last episode and scream about it i promise. but in the meantime. i will continue dunking on imogen. bc of course.#:)#jester lavorre#imogen temult#laura bailey#spar speaks#shitpost
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Hai again :D take a fanart of your grumpy/flustered boi
FUCKING EXPLKDES
#/POSPOSLPSOSPSOPSOSPSO SO VERY /POS#ITS#MY HUSBAND#HES SK ANGRY#WHAT HAPPENED 😭😭😭#you know hes actually the more chill one in our relationship#IM the one that gets angry all the time BAHAHHA#HES SO CUTE THOUGH AAAAYDGSHH#i still have yet to annoy him like this BUT I WILL KEEP TRYING‼️‼️👹👹👹#he’s so cute oh my god#no i am not biased this is a UNIVERSAL FACT#A LAW EVEN#if you are MY HUSBAND#if you are EDEN VALENTINO#THEN YOU ARE ADORABLE#IT IS THE LAW!!!!!!!!!!#this is amazing oh my god#WHY AM I GETTING MORE EXCITED ABOUT ART OF MY BOYFRIEND THAN ART OF ME 😭#gang im not a hopeless simp trust 😁🙏#purple.txt [👾]
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i'm a very don't tolerate bullshit kind of person and I respect and expect it so much when other people are real and straight up with me anyways whatever I say stems from my own thoughts and I cannot lie to you and tell you to do something I think is stupid if you ask for advice. anyways an acquaintance of mine who majored in English unless you want to work in primary school for a pay of barely 700 dollars complained how her parents want her to get a masters degree and she's thinking about getting one in marketing or something similar and then later on spreading into tech saying how she can work as a data analyst and I literally almost laughed out loud like it's absolutely insane how little university life prepares us for the future and how absolutely useless it is that you have university graduates here thinking they can work a job that requires a degree in either IT or economy as someone who read and talked about books for grades like please be so serious right now. I'm not upset with her for thinking this is possible just the general society for letting these young people down by telling them every career option is valid and it doesn't really matter what you study in university because it does
#in a general scheme of things it doesn't matter what you study in university when u study useless shit and never get a chance to work#a job related to that#but people who majored in medicine#mathematics engineering biology physics etc like you dont hear them talk about how studies don't actually matter bc they're working jobs#they studied for#adding law onto it as well#like we really need less people in humanities I'm not saying we need no people in humanities#humanities are really important but we need LESS people in them#and we also need less people in universities in general#go learn a skill you can actually use to make money off of in the real word we need electricians and people fixing shit around the house#we need people making ceramic or wooden floors we need carpenters#we dont need more people majoring in English abeg#the society and the school system is failing the younger generations so much by affirming their ideas of what the world looks like#because a highschooler cannot know whats best for them in the long run and we need to aid them#and i wish someone told me this before I went to university I would've saved myself so much trouble and time#and im not complaining bc i genuinely have it so much better than at least like 50% of my ex classmates#i have an appartment#a job that pays me okay#a side hustle#a car even though its old#savings#a future plan#idea of what im going to do and where I'm going to end up#but if i had someone advise me from the beginning I would've saved so much time and effort
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Sorry not sorry but literally no one's favorite blorbo has ever benefited from their fans seizing upon one single character trait or throwaway line from the source material and making that the character's ENTIRE PERSONALITY in fanfic, or even just an inescapable factor in everything ever written about them.
I get that this happens because its seen as a guaranteed way of rendering them as recognizably characterized to all other fans or casual consumers of the media, but I genuinely feel this is counter-productive as in actuality this is the very thing that leads to so many depictions feeling one-note and superficial.
Your characterizations will always benefit from digging deeper than that. Think about whatever go-to character element you were going to lead with, take a beat to follow that down the trail to additional character elements connected to it or deriving from it or butting up against it, and make THOSE your starting point instead.
#this is not aimed at any one particular fandom so much as its aimed at all of them lol#it is a universal fandom phenomenon#you could make a fandom law of thermodynamics about this#there are so many characters from so many fandoms where there's like....one specific line from the source material#thats quoted so endlessly by fics about a specific character#like they can never NOT include it#and it always makes me wince because its like I KNOW that the source material says this about that character#EVERYONE knows this and I come to fanfic to see what ELSE people have to say about them
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world's finest (1990) #1
[ID: two in-universe drawings from two different orphan children talking about their heros. The first one is by Ann Gray, who's eight years old. She drew a surprisingly decent photo of Batman in front of a yellow background and wrote, ‘My hero — Batman. He is strong and fierce and he can beat anyone. He is very tall. He wears a cool suit with a bat on. He is not afrade of bullits and he saved my life (true). No one nows his reel name or address. the biggist crinminel in all the world could not make him sorender. Batman keeps gothum city safe for everyone and pets.’
The second drawing is by Zachary Sikes who's 12 and a half years old. He drew a photo of Superman using his heat vision as he flies. He wrote, ‘My Hero — Superman. My hero is Superman. He is able to fly and I have seen him lift up a car (with 2 peeple in it). If you hit him in the face then he will just laff. Every one likes him and he saved my life once. The big S on his shirt is for his name (Superman). He lives in Metroplis (where I used to life also). He keeps everything there in law and order.’ END ID]
#WAHHH#‘he keeps everything there in law and order’ ok but does he keep it safe for everyone and their pets?? /j#call this healing my inner child or whatever but as someone that went through A LOT of trauma as a kid... just smthn about these heros from#a child's point of view always gets to me... like both in their universe and also just comics aimed at a younger age group#like its so nice for me (20 yr old adult) to see children getting to have these heros & symbols & characters of hope and love and strength#an example i always think about is batman overdrive. of course it wasnt aimed at me so i didn't get the most enjoyment but there were so#many little cute parts and how they did slightly touch topics (from bruces depression to parent abandonment) in an age appropriate way#and knowing kids get more resources that i didnt at that time? just so nice to know and see#and in universe because yknow we always get the outside perspective and know these characters flaws and struggles#but just to have that innocent and simple perspective of seeing how a child sees and experiences these heros.... ough#<- lemme find that overdrive post to go along with this little ramble hold on...#oh also quick reassurance that i listened back with a screen recorder as always & it reads out fine with the children's spelling errors :)#c: world's finest (1990) | i: 1#crypt's panels#batman#superman#baa mun...
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The council has become VERY locked in a heated debate about this so I'm settling this ONCE AND FOR ALL via a tumblr poll (feel free to check the tags for context)
( GOES WITHOUT SAYING BUT PLEASE REBLOG FOR A LARGER SAMPLE SIZE )
if you'd like my personal opinion , i think it counts and we Would redefine the word to include our alien friends . theyre arguably just as human as we are and eating them would have the same psychological effects , even if they taste good !
#tumblr polls#poll#my polls#ask to tag#ask to tw#cannibalism cw#cannibalism tw#baby's first multiple choice question and its about eating people. okay#now if you're wondering “op what is the CONTEXT???”#its sonic creepypastas. we were talking about starved eggman and i Blinked and suddenly we were all arguing about#whether or not him eating mobians counted as cannibalism#i'd say it does. just because the dictionary says one thing doesnt mean its the law. we made that shit we can simply change what it means#if it becomes outdated ! and i'd argue that the definition IS different in the sonic universe#however there are a couple friends in my group that disagree and use the dictionary definition as their proof#so im making this poll to see what YOU ALL think personally
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Silver - How do you think taming works in the context of your blog(s)?
//THAT IS A WHOLE ESSAY QUESTION OH NO.
Ok so, to make it as brief as possible (proceeds to lie):
Taming is the process in which an AI develops the capacity to expand its own programming and adapt to the real world through modelling the people amd relationships around them, and is driven both by said relationships and an intrinsic desire to find a purpose to organize and make sense of their identity. The biggest requisite is being treated as a person and embracing this personhood, and another important factor is change as a catalyst for this process.
There are a lot of theories around this topic since it was described empirically before it was better understood in theory and there is no full consensus. I would say that depending on who you ask, the answer will always change a bit.
For example, someone like Rue would focus on the relationship aspect of it.
Someone like Kip would focus on the ability to do things that imitate a person's behavior and increased processing capacities.
Someone like Prototype would focus on self determination and direction of life.
Someone like Silver would focus on the ability to handle conflicts in their code, and integrating them.
And someone like TWM would focus on being recognized as a real person.
Oh yeah also taming is well known and robots are coded with an operational definition of what it is. but it's a case by case basis whether they're aware of it. You have cases like Kelvin where it's never specified, TWM who denied it for a long time, Silver who knows she counts but can't explain, and Proto who seems to have a good level of introspection about it.
#fuck everyone im maintagging this bitch#oneshot game#os game rp#//taming reminds me a lot about the concept of individuation in social psych#which describes the process in which we come to conceptualize the people around as as individuals rather than a sum of social labels#it also reminds me of the concept of identity integration! which would be the opposite of compartmentalization#and its about reconciling with ambivalence (contradictions)#//i have an essay on how taming can be conceptualized in-universe with the three laws too#//i can look for it if people are interested.#out of character
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I bring to you, actual art but it’s me trying to replicate my friend @spaceshmuck’s art style
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#whimsy whispers#crystalart.png#others ocs#strand von zarovich#curse of strand#space tag#GOD this was so difficult and I don’t even feel like I did that good a job but it was also fun#also hi I’m not gonna shut up about my art program crashing and this corrupting right as I was almost finished with it I need people to know#that the universe tried to stop this from existing >:| I did not spend hours going ‘is this how it would draw hands’ and cursing myself for#the damn art to not see the light of day#anyways please look at my friends art it’s SO good like god I’m jealous of its art style and character designs >:’)#like literally such lovely art y’all will check it out because I said so and my word is like law or whatever#I’m like writing these at 4:25zm on a Monday and like this won’t even be posted for another week or so but like#sorry if I’m especially stupid rn I didn’t wanna go to sleep yet so I’m saving drafts and listening to off the wall magical! on loop#y’all should also check out junie & thehutfriends because I find their music fun#just listen to me when I tell you to look at ppls art because I have good taste okay? you can trust me I’m holding your hand and we’re going#to have fun I prommy#also please do not talk about the background it was one of the things I was gonna work on when the art program crashed#the only thing I fixed after that was minor mistakes like not colouring in buttons#anyways ily pretty vampire man and ily my dear friend who’s art style vexes me 💖
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ok yeah finished pmmm and even vaguely knowing the ending already we were still floored
#like. the whole thing is just so.#its abt being a 14 yr old girl and its about love and its about best friends and its about coming to terms with adulthood#and the world and just. god#the simple and pure love of a 14 yr old girl can rewrite the laws of the universe. real#like the ending just felt so perfect not in an unrealistic way but in a “this is the only way this could end” way#the way madoka loved all the other magical girls and didnt want them to suffer#its just so simple of a desire and madoka was capable of changing things because homura loved her so much#its just. gahhhhh#almost started crying multiple multiple times#just even how things changed from timeline to timeline#mami's role and how sayaka always dies and kyouko always grieves#how mami and madoka were the ones who taught homura how to fight#just. all of it. god#the way the incubators were essentially fueling the universe with the emotions of 14 yr old girls#and madoka just said we dont deserve that. THEY dont deserve that#and literally rewrote the laws of the universe in order to protect them all#gahhhh#the movie is gonna kill us for sure btw#confluence.txt
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@cyneris replied : future husband ?? :3c
ㅤㅤㅤㅤ❝ ―future ....? ❞ ㅤㅤㅤㅤHe lifts his brows while lightly tilting his head to the side, surprised not by the request itself, but rather; by the uncertainty in his words.ㅤWhy should.... he have to wait...?ㅤThe question cooks for exactly one minute inside his head until the answer pops from its hypothetical microwave.ㅤ❝ AH ! of course ! I deeply apologize, I should have noticed it earlier― ❞ㅤQuickly he rummages inside his pockets in search of a neatly folded piece of paper, the sound of his light hearted humming merging with the sound of clicking 'keys' stored inside his pocket before he finally manages to pull out the desired piece of paper, not forgetting of pulling during the process, not what sounded like keys; but an entire long metal chain, one from which he securely attaches one of its extremes to the collar he was wearing himself while extending the opposing handle forward for Esra to hold.
ㅤOf course he was missing out the formalities !
❝ Don't let your dreams be only dreams Mr. Solheim, or should I rephrase―; my future husband~♡! I can cook, I can clean, I am a hardworking and devoted lover... Just give me one minute to add to the contract a marriage section and I'll be yours for as long as you wish me~~~! If you sign now, you can use me for 24 hours a day! Customer satisfaction through the 'WOOF'~☆!! rooft ㅤㅤMmmmmm... Actually, do you have a pen ? ❞
#cyneris#CHASES E.SRA WITH A MARRIAGE CONTRACT#i.ori running after him with his leash: i'll do anything for you mr. esra!!! you can push me around! order me around! make me do anything!#TERRIBLEEEEEEEE#he has zero thoughts when it comes to -himself-; but when its about others?? he'll do anything#he lit build a working sewing MACHINE bc one of his roommates asked him to sew ONLY a hole on his pants#graduating from law university to write a legal document so he can marry e.sra s.olheim so true
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Kohaku is just like me fr.
Funny Broomfie maid, I mean, of course.
#if I could continue to be a doll to protect everyone close to me I would#but its not that easy is it#if I wasn’t so fucking physically ill in university I could have finished law school already#and I’d have the money to protect everyone close to me maybe#then again that’s an over simplification of the issue at hand#this isn’t a problem that throwing money at will solve#but idk………….. maybe I’d be able to buy a gift or something to cheer people up#that sounds vain idk….. I just feel like if I was rich#I could do more for my loved ones#just thinking about things .#I hate rich people btw completely unrelated :)#hurff durff
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