#SORRY FOR THE WALL OF YAPS

[artsideblogofsorts]

ALRIGHT WOOOOOOW. I wanna reply and show appreciation for this in a proper way so it's a reblog🥹💙💙

They would DEFINITELY vibe together naturally!! Nick is indeed a very cool and unique character that draws a lot of attention hihi, and he's quite charming too! A fan favourite for sure C:

THE JACKET ONE WAS A MUSTTTTTT and I also wanna draw him shirtless at some point!! not for thirst for ONCE BAHAHAH but because I wanna show all his damage. I might also introduce a few more chars from Fo4 and dbh C: already have ideas for a Reed900 appearance 😍

SAME HERE I love DBH design but the obvious synthetic look (like the ones in I, Robot or Bicentennial Man) are just UUGGGHH super cool imo!

AND ABT THE ATMOSPHERE AAAH HE IS THE NOIR VIBE, like I wanna explore more of that because I want Connor to be the younger less experienced detective that adapts to Nick's modus operandi and they both end up having this dark, smoky badass look to them KJASDFHKJHDSF im gonna blow the hell up just talking abt this

BOTH IS GOOD. They have the synnergy to share both kinds of vibes I think :DD

AAAHHHHH AND OF COURSE THANK YOU SO FRICKIN MUCH, honestly this one came out a lot more naturally than I expected ;v; it was a lot of luck. I will post a process vid later!! its not finished but conveys most of it :D Thank you thank you thank you kindly💙💙💙 ;V; ig those boring design lessons paid off, and even though I still have doubts and know that I can do even better your comments are immensely appreciated and push me in a much healthier way C:

thank you SO MUCH for taking the time to go over it all and for checking the details. Making them is so fun, but the reward of having someone point them out is 1000x better C: 💙

Nick Valentine, Synth Detective

partnering up with

Connor-51, Deviant Hunter!

I am pleased to present this little partnership idea between two tin cans I'm extremely fond of 💙 making this brought me so much joy and I hope you guys like it as well!

Some background info under the cut!~

Connor is an advanced prototype of android within the universe of Detroit: Become Human. He was designed to assist in the investigation of deviants, other androids that have "gone rogue" and stopped taking orders. He's also known as the Deviant Hunter. Though initially convinced that he is "just a machine" designed to accomplish his mission, Connor might eventually begin to warm up to his partner, and his priorities might shift unexpectedly.

Nick Valentine is a synth, or Synthetic man in Fallout 4. He is a mysterious prototype with the implanted memories of an old detective that lived over a century ago, and woke up in a heap of garbage after being dumped by his creators, the Institute. He's quick witted and snarky, and although his damaged components might make him appear intimidating at first, he is a deeply compassionate man who genuinely cares about doing the good thing, and this has earned him the trust and respect of his community.

[amequeer]

I just have a thing for "robot overcoming what they were made for" trope I guess

[go-star-sailor]

transfem wirt truthers wya

[theythemmer]

Parted from me and never parted. Never and always touching and touched.

[virsancte]

as the clock strikes twelve 👀

look at how gorgeous angel looks with this hair!!!!! I LOVE THEM SO MUCH RAHH when i grabbed them into cas i legit teared up over how pretty they are. they're everything to me;-;

[midnight--sadness]

this stupid ass show's timeline is so fucked up omg

according to the wikia, the year is 132 AC, which is already stupid in and of it itself but whatever, moving on.

I think it was last episode that they say that Daeron is 16, which is fine, okay, but then you remember that according to the timeskips and the wikia, Helaena is 17 and Aemond is 17-16. Jaehaerys & Jaehaera are 4 years old, so Helaena had them at 13, which is just.... yikes. But did Alicent have three children in two years? Why is Aemond's birth so uncertain when all the other major characters have birth years?

Alicent says that Gwayne was 8 and motherless when she and Otto came to court, and yet in episode 1 of the first season, Daemon mentions that Otto's wife died recently and we see Gwayne was old enough to participate in the tourney.... are there two Gwaynes or did the writers forget that they had already introduced his character? Also, him saying that he is the oldest son and should be raised at Oldtown is so stupid, because Otto is the second son and none of his children will inherite the Hightower, not unless his brother's kids all drop dead, which we know doesnt happen in the books (though they could do that in the show, who knows).

the writers make such stupid choices in regards to the timeline. Why did they make Joffrey, Aegon III and Viserys II so young when it is going to create so many problems for the narrative later on? How is Aegon going to flee on dragonback when Stormcloud is the size of a cat? Is someone going to rescue him and leave Viserys behind? One of the reasons Aegon III was so broken is because he was forced to abandon his brother and he never forgave himself. how can that happen in the show when he doesnt even have the ability to properly eat by himself?

and now they made Hugh Saera's son, when he looks like he is the same age as Daemon, and Saera was only 14 when Daemon was born in the books? hell, when he was born she hadnt even had that whole scandal business.... not to mention that they make it see like Hugh was born in Westeros, probably the Crownlands or even King's Landing itself. Are they trying to say that Saera worked at a brothel in the city while her father was king?

[happi-dreams]

i watched wall-e today !!!! it was soo good !!!!

obligatory doodles because !

[shinibobo]

Thinking about it, Mephiles had a reasonable crash out. I'm not wrong am I? I keep seeing other people in other parts of the web say that Mephiles was a heartless villain that was created to have no redeeming qualities and nothing to sympathize about but?? There's the fact that Mephiles is LITERALLY a broken remnant of a presumably benevolent (or simply was minding its own) god, forcibly drawn apart for the greed of one man that staged it as a benefit for all of soleanna?

Also there's the potential that none of 06 could have happened if Shadow hadn't trapped Mephiles (or dare I say even Iblis, though being a potential raw form of solaris' wrath, it's hard to say). Yes, they had the foresight that Mephiles was going to mislead and cause problems in the future, but they never had the full picture until it was too late for them. Mephiles, for all we know after Solaris split, was scared and confused. If you were stripped of your identity, but also didn't comprehend who you were and what you were, and were just left to your own devices without any direction, wouldn't that be overwhelming? Like here in 06, Mephiles sounds lost when Shadow finds them... Escaping? Finding their way?:

Shadow immediately jumped into sealing Mephiles into the Sceptre. Sure it was to ensure that a worse future didn't actually, in fact, happen, and it's more than likely in Shadow's nature to ensure there's no possible room for errors like that to happen. Though, it seems that the crux of the issues lie in Mephiles (and Iblis in silver's future) understanding that the world saw them only as forces of destruction and ruin that needed to be sealed away. They weren't wanted, because they aren't what the Solaris Project hoped for. Iblis caused Silver's timeline to occur when they were finally released from their prison, rage building and snapping. Mephiles holds a grudge when Shadow seals it away. When they finally, FINALLY reunite as Solaris, what way to take revenge than to deliver what happened to them; Out of sight out of mind on cataclysmic proportions.

Maybe if sympathy had been extended to Mephiles and Iblis, things could have turned out differently, and they wouldn't have become the villain we all hear about. Shadow and Silver had the potential to rewrite a LOT of things right then and there in that past timeline.

[mcytegg]

dumbasses

[messrsrarchives]

recently i've had a lot of asks/dms/tellonyms about mlm content and fetishising and i just,,,

first of all, i've done a whole video on this here so i don't want to risk repeating myself but the main point in that video is that this is the exact rhetoric that limits mainstream representation. not just representation, but education - when you reduce mlm media to fetish content, you're implying that these stories and the relationships in them are inherently sexual, the same way that politicians assume queer relationships are inherently sexual and remove them from the curriculum, limiting the amount of education people have on different family dynamics and identities that are so so soooo important to know. i also talk a bit in that video about why women may be more drawn to mlm stories, as well as how mainstream media's approach to female characters influences that too.

BUT anyway, i think,,, right now? not the time. right now - when books are being pulled off the shelves, when queer rights are in jeopardy, when there's been a massive wave of anti-lgbtq+ politics worldwide - is not the time to start critiquing fanfiction for what people write and why it's written.

there is absolutely the possibility for people to engage in this media in a way that does fetishise certain sexualities, but the approach of "women reading mlm" "men reading wlw" "sex in fanfics" being fetish content?

i fear that whilst trying to be progressive, we loop all the way back round and end up in the same mindset of those pulling books from shelves. queer stories aren't inherently sexual. sex in queer stories is not inherently fetish content. and dare i say, nothing in fanfiction is inherently anything - it's all about individual engagement.

and i could say a lot more, but really i'm just quite upset that we're not only having this discussion again, but we're having it at a time when fanfiction and individual voices are so important.

[spadesncrows]

i love the idea of deuce dying his hair to blond highlights or smth like that bc think about it

The last time deuce had blonde hair from what the game recalls was back when he was a delinquent, a part of his past that he continues to regret, hate and hide for the sake of moving on. He gets frustrated when he falls back into his old habits and embarrassed when he becomes angered, hating the way his own mannerisms remind him of the things he did and people he hurt. To him, the bleach on his hair was as much of a stain as his own wrongdoings. To him, there was no one without the other because every person he punched, every kid he bullied, every victim of one rude remark after another, all of them learned to avoid the head of blonde they saw in crowds knowing that out of everyone in their town, it could’ve been Deuce.

I like the idea that hair holds memories bc to me, it means deuce could have a happy ending. If he ever decided to willingly dye some of his hair blonde, I take that as him making peace with himself. To me, it is him acknowledging that yes, what he did was wrong and his actions can’t be undone, but he doesn’t deserve to berate himself for something he is trying to correct. The first step is to acknowledge that what happened was wrong and take proper responsibility for it, and he did. He took that step a long time ago and he is still actively trying to keep going and better himself and do more.

Some people don’t make it past that first step. Deuce didn’t have to. He didn’t need to become an honors student, he did it for the people he loved, for his mother.

I feel like he got rid of his blonde hair because it was the last shred of who he was as a delinquent. A minuscule detail tied so greatly to a point in his life that he despised. So the idea of him willingly bringing it back—even just a little—fills me with absolute joy bc to me, it solidifies the idea that he is the same exact person who he was all that time ago. And that’s okay. Because that person changed and grew and found somewhere to flourish even if he continues to struggle day in and day out.

Tldr I would die for this man thank you for coming to my Ted talk

[naydralikessoup]

ansem: the true nature of the heart is darkness! and in the end, everything will return to the darkness from whence it came!

sora:

[better-than-life]

GUYS GUYS IVE ALMOST FINISHED WRITING THE CHAPTER OF THE WALL-E AU THAT HAS BEEN TORMENTING ME FOR THE LAST (checks notes, what the fuck) 6 MONTHS

Might be able to FINALLY finish it tomorrow!!!!! Pls I need all the encouragement I can get gang, It can finally be free within a matter of days if I just work hard enough on it tomorrow

I only need to write in the fill bits between the various sections that I've done, there's already 5K words (its probably going to be my longest chapter yet, but I couldn't find anywhere good to stop it so-)

Also it's got my literal favourite scene from the film in (DEFINE DANCING WOOOOOOOO)

Genuinely so excited to show you guys the chapter, just need to finish this final stretch

[puppppppppy]

i wrote this as a joke because I wanted to strangle a guy watching tiktoks without headphones on the bus, but im genuinely disturbed that we've gotten to a point where convenience comes first. and it depresses me even more that its used to justify and monetize greed

[potatolucy]

Frozen Iron Veins

Weekly one chunk biome 1 REMADE!

Left is new, right is old

So it's the final month of my little weekly one chunk biome project, and I feel like I've improved a lot with my builds, so to showcase some of that improvement I thought it'd be fun to try and revisit and remake the first four builds I made for this project every week! These builds are seperate from the project itself

The first one was Frozen Iron Veins, and this one turned out to be an even bigger difference than I expected.

It was the first build I made for this project, so I didn't really know what I was doing with my terrain building, and I can very clearly see that now when I look at the messy texturing of the floor, and the placements of the ice were really messy as well. The inconsistency of the snow layers on the ground don't make any sense either. Everything was just messy lol.

So I tried to fix all that... and I think it went really well actually

The shaping of the terrain in the new one is much nicer and smoother with the way I like to use slabs nowadays, and the texturing of the calcite and snow isn't just literally randomized with a trowel mod anymore. I stopped using that tool a couple months ago with Scorched Path, and ever since then I've noticed a big improvement in my builds actually lol

I made the iron veins a bit bigger than I first expected, but I quite like how much bigger they look here. Especially the ice surrounding it is a lot better since I tried to place it a bit more like they're spiked away from the veins, if that makes any sense.

Lastly, the plantage just gives the build a lot more life, which it desperately needed since it looked quite dull imo.

Overall I think this was a really great improvement, I'm really happy to see how much I've learned throughout this year cause that was exactly what I was hoping when I started this project.

Next week will be time for Golden Hell :)

[reigraceee]

20, 29 & 88 for the OTP ship ask! For Aresyl and Theron 🤭

Thanks for the prompts :)

I kind of got excited because these pretty insightful questions and so this is going to be kind of long and possibly ramble-y

^Aresyl x Theron teehee

20. Who handles the spiders? Who screams directions in the background?

Alright, lmao. 

I had to think about this for a while because it’s really a good question. The thing is I don’t think that either Aresyl or Theron would really scream in fear over a spider, so I was kind of stumped for a second.

But here’s the thing- Aresyl’s way more chill than Theron full stop. Which says a lot because my guy Theron is actually a pretty mellow guy and Aresyl’s a certified Sith. I think Theron is good at managing his emotions and man-ing up, but Aresyl is so mellow in the first place that she was never at risk of freaking out. For example, Theron has a shorter temper than Aresyl- despite being decently chill himself -and we see that when he makes angry/annoyed remarks at Saresh, Lana, and Scorpio. 

So (stay with me here), Aresyl is generally the emotional anchor in the relationship. She will handle things when Theron is on edge and is able to help bring his temper/stress levels down.

Aresyl also has a higher standard for what she considers gross (she was a slave for years- she’s seen worse), so I think Theron is more likely to be bothered by the creepy-crawlies (we’re still talking about spiders).

All this to say, while I don’t think either are very likely to scream about spiders and could both manage the situation on their own, Aresyl is more likely to calmly take care of things while Theron is more likely to have negative emotion cloud his ability to do the same (handle a spider). 

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

29. What's an insecurity they hold about their relationship?

Early on, being on opposite factions was obviously a huge hurdle. When they met, Theron was a Republic spy and Aresyl was one of the most powerful, controversial, and influential Sith in the Empire. It was really bizarre to Theron to be working with a Dark Lord, let alone actually like her, let alone fall in love. Crazy stuff. Hard to get over.

Aresyl recognized this, which was especially soul crushing to her because she hated being associated with the Sith. She couldn’t help but feel she was forever chained to the Empire, keeping people from seeing her as a real person among other things. Aresyl is also the kind to get lost in her head, so she spends a lot more time worrying that she is unlovable than recognizing the love she has already been shown. So, what I’m saying is Aresyl worries that she’s not worthy of love in Theron’s eyes. But! That was more of a big issue early in their relationship- later on these feelings were only triggered if they got in a fight.

Funnily enough, Theron worries he’s not worthy for her. Although Theron did have his apprehensions at first, he dropped his prejudice as soon as he realized Aresyl was far more compassionate than most people he’d ever met- Republic or Empire aside. Quickly after this revelation, Theron regarded Aresyl so highly, he felt insignificant in comparison. Strong enough to carry a heart after all the abuse she’s endured, intelligent enough to craft her own path, and so uniquely beautiful- Aresyl might as well have been a goddess who lowered herself to be with him. From when they met to after they tied the knot, Theron’s totally lost as to how Aresyl could forgive, love, and support him time after time.

88. What's the darkest secret they have ever told one another?

I don’t really have any juicy gossip or drama or anything super exciting to offer here, other than the fact that they know just about everything about one another. Anything either might hide from others, they lay open for the other.

A big part of this is how they know each other's backgrounds. By the time they met, both Aresyl and Theron had come to terms with their unconventional childhoods, but they still definitely kept their stories close to their chest (is that an expression? Makes sense to me idk). 

Even when their relationship was super uncertain and seemingly only held together by a temporary alliance, Theron felt it was easy to be around Aresyl and trusted her quickly. There were people he’d known for years that he’d never dream of opening up to, but all it took was a few months for Theron to lay his whole story out for Aresyl. This was in part because he wanted her to fully understand him before they parted ways and in part because he wanted to be even with Aresyl after she hinted at her own past.

(prompts from this ask meme//Aresyl introduced here)