#also me: i must overthink the everloving shit out of this

[edains]

tagged by @deannastrois and @clericofshadows thank youuuuuuuuuuuuu

i'll tag @sunstridering @eloquentspeeches @narrayya @rodriguefraldarius and anyone else who wants to do it!

[blackwingedbird]

okay but can we just talk about pintsize for a minute

So I’ve been rereading QC a bunch lately, and what I find really fascinating is how Jeph as managed to set up the whole “robots as social allegory” thing entirely by accident. Like...obviously he’s leaning into it now, but it clearly was not the original intent, in that the original intent was “lol robots.” Jeph has said in interviews that he doesn’t plan storylines too far in advance -- his writing style seems to be more along the lines of making a joke, and then extrapolating from that joke and exploring its actual implications. 

That’s pretty fucking neat and something I could go on about forever in and of itself, honestly. But it gets super interesting in terms of robot stuff, because we’ve gone from AIs being essentially a combination of pet and toy, to sometimes being humanoids with their own lives, to very clearly and universally being people. Obviously in the real world, this is a product of the story evolving -- but in the QC universe, it must mean that they always were people, and thus that it was always pretty shitty to treat them like walking iPhones. 

We’re essentially seeing the AI civil rights movement in real time, in the same way the characters are. All because Jeph was like “hey what if I gave Momo a humanoid chassis, that would be neat.”

I started thinking about this a lot in strip 1900, wherein Marten says he doesn’t think of Pintsize as a robot, “just a little dude.” This struck me as being a. disturbingly similar to the idea of “not seeing color,” and b. patently untrue. Several other AIs -- nearly every other AI, in fact -- had evolved to obviously-a-person status by that point, but Pintsize was still the exact same walking punchline he’s been since the very first strip. I started wondering whether we would ever see him humanized, and how that would even work. It would be difficult to do without fundamentally destroying his character -- you can’t just throw him in a humanoid chassis and go “okay he’s a person now,” like Momo or Winslow, or even May. But it would also weaken the comic to leave him as-is -- “oh yeah, AIs are people, except for Pintsize.”

So it’s pretty cool to see Jeph exploring this, and I think he’s striking a really good balance, particularly in the current interaction with Claire (“Is this a prank?” “No, this is me expressing concern. The box of dildos balanced precariously on the bathroom door is a prank.”), and I very much look forward to seeing where it goes.

tl;dr I have been overthinking the everloving shit out of Robot Stuff in QC.

[galaxy-barnes]

I know this story is a reader insert but let me tell you I was Bucky in this chapter. God, that punch must have felt good, I swear. I just wanted to shake Steve. So. Badly. Just shake him until all the loose parts in his overthinking brain fall back into place again.

But I guess the punch did that too. Bucky and Penny both deserve the Best "Best Friend" Award. Can I give them a Best "Best Friend" Award? Nevermind, I'll do it.

Also, what the everloving fuck, Steven? You've been receiving these shits and never told anyone? And then freak out when your girl wants to deal with them alone too? That's now how this works!!

Operation Morons indeed!! (I love them though!)

Attached: Hurtful Words Pt.2

Type: (mini)-series,  Modern-college-professor AU… aka the wrong attachment AU ;)

Pairing: Steve Rogers x reader   Word count: 3530

Summary:  Steve’s been hit hard with the events involving bad poetry on campus too. He thinks he knows what needs to be done; but sometimes, what people truly need is a really good friend who knocks some sense into them. 

Enter Bucky Barnes and Penny Cooper.

A/N: Attached: Hurtful Words is an addition that loosely followes the Attached series. You don’t necessarily need to read the mini-series as a whole, but you will understand much better.

Warnings: mentions of name calling and humiliation, brief violence, swearing, some angst and lots of talking

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The friendship between Bucky and Steve had begun with a beautiful chain reaction.

On a cold November day many years ago, a six-year-old Steve Rogers witnessed a pair of stupid boys stealing a girl’s hat and tossing it around and he stepped in; a seven-year-old Bucky Barnes saw two jerks hitting a younger and obviously weaker kid and decided to take it personally.

That day, Bucky Barnes met Steve Rogers and instantly became a protective older brother, for he recognized that Steve had a brave and kind heart. That day, they became easy friends, because Steve recognized the same qualities in Bucky.

Even if they grew as people, they had their ups and downs, they never grew apart completely and stayed best friends for life – and the protectiveness over each other never disappeared. Which was only one of the reasons why Bucky felt an unbearable urge to punch someone – preferably the idiots who got his OTP into this mess.

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