#any downtime

[cookies-after-dark]

i bring a sort of "Shmilk and PV share the reader" and then add a, "Shmilk and PV are also sexually repressed and while PV builds up the courage to court the reader he and Shmilk romp in the hay 5 times a day to release their pent up frustrations" vibe to tumblr that nobody really likes

[forgetful-river]

Guess who couldn't get their pen pressure to work right :D

[emeraldmew]

Chapman just sitting in absolute silence when he's not actively doing something like contacting Visser Three is eerie enough from Rachel's perspective but...

like, Yeerks probably get bored and fidget too. He's probably not just sitting in silence.

Iniss Two-Two-Six and the human Chapman are probably chatting.

[ariadne-mouse]

I did have to work today but with so many people on vacation, I spent the afternoon with 0 emails (blissful), 0 chats (incredible), and instead put my head down with a movie in the background and did something I have been meaning to get to since, oh, 2022: clearing out a few file archives that had an intimidating mix of (possibly) important unsorted records and (possibly) abject junk. I sorted some but deleted SO MUCH and it felt amazing. I am so powerful

[ryuusei-boi]

Inazuma Eleven Ending 7 - "Mata ne... no Kisetsu"

Taken from TODOS LOS ENDINGS del ANIME de INAZUMA ELEVEN 4K by Angelico and edited by me

[leupagus]

A whole day later and I'm still thinking about the person who decided that Dragon Age: The Veilguard is badly written because they found a codex that references the book club that the companions started.

Because they thought it was unrealistic that anyone at the Lighthouse would ever have time to read books, much less have a book club.

ETA all this to say I am in my “block people clogging up the tags with negativity” phase of getting back into Dragon Age fandom.

[teeth-draws]

In my downtime did up an old painting of Halle (ofc) from @shepherds-of-haven

Halle likes: developing spells, teleporting away from emotional conversations, children, gambling, reptiles

Halle dislikes: battle mages, people asking her questions, cardio, the friendzone 😭

[kalibabysworld]

I'd bet a lot of money that at least 50% of the reason Charly smashed his racquet today is because he's still carrying over frustration and anger (and disappointment) from the loss in Paris. That wasn't even two weeks ago and he himself admitted that that loss hurt more than most.

[laundrybiscuits]

@eriquin recently (and not-so-recently, whoops) tagged me in a few things! So we're doing Super Combo Tag Extravaganza here.

Current media: watching Severance, listening to Ruby by Jennie, and reading a whole bunch of Han Kang.

"Glass is transparent, right? And fragile. That's the fundamental nature of glass. And that's why objects that are made of glass have to be handled with care. After all, if they end up smashed or cracked or chipped then they're good for nothing, right, you just have to chuck them away. Before, we used to have a kind of glass that couldn't be broken. A truth so hard and clear that it might as well have been made of glass. So when you think about it, it was only when we were shattered that we proved we had souls. That what we really were was humans made of glass." -Han Kang, Human Acts

Recent writing: long story short, my work is directly impacted by The Current Situation, and I've been spending about 12-14 hours every day at what was already a fairly demanding job that plays into the worst of my workaholic tendencies.

THAT SAID I did in fact recently dump a bit more into that one weird sequel WIP, so for once I do happen to have something relatively fresh in the category of Munson Family Feelings:

When he was a kid, Eddie wanted to be a were-pig one summer. Werewolf would’ve made more sense, but Eddie didn’t let that discourage him. His third-grade class had gone to visit a farm that someone's uncle owned around the end of the semester, and the massive feeders hadn't looked anything like Porky Pig. They were metal as hell, hairy and grunting, stinking like anything in the warm barn. So practically that whole summer, May through June, Eddie was a were-pig. Wayne was real good about it, too; Eddie’d only been staying in a looks-like-it’s-for-keeps way for less than a year, but Wayne put up with him tearing around oinking and growling all the same. “It ain’t the full moon, kid,” he’d say. “How come you’re still a pig?” “Were-pigs don’t turn with the moon, stupid,” Eddie told him. “Were-pigs do whatever we want.” It must’ve driven the old man crazy, maybe wondering what he’d gotten himself in for, but Wayne’d always just laugh and ruffle Eddie’s hair.

(Admittedly I have also somewhat been messing with an extension to my f/f Steddie fic, kind of trying to bring a more layered take on dominance because I often see it portrayed in a really two-dimensional way—not solely in fic/fandom, although it does show up here quite a lot. But despite my lofty aspirations, most of what I've actually written is just loosely characterized porn due to the aforementioned stress, so. Who knows if it'll ever get posted!)

Oldest fic [series] in my ST bookmarks: 1986 was the year of the Fire Tiger, by maiamaryse. I added a whole bunch in alphabetical order, so I don't think this is the first ST fic I actually read, but it's definitely one of the earlier ones.

I still really like the series! It's got a very distinctive and rather interesting voice. I've also just noticed that it's tagged "Underrated Gems," which is my tag for my fave fics that hit a sliding threshold for key metrics when I bookmarked them, as long as I bookmarked them at least a week or two after they were initially posted. It's not a great system but I'm not fixing it now.

[goffilolo]

In conclusion, when Asta becomes the wizard king Yuno needs to bid his time and wait for his turn to be Asta's 2nd wife

[owchie-wowchie]

neverafter is crazy cause that all takes place over the course of like a very shitty week

[spikes-got-anger-issues]

Here’s an interesting thought experiment. I was reading your post about the Commando app Beta 2.1 vs 3.1 debate and whether there was an Alpha app or a Beta 1.1. What if there was an Alpha app and Douglas tried it with Adam, the original bionic but it didn’t work right and caused some brain damage which is why Adam is like that? Douglas then realized that if he was going to put the Commando app in a bionic’s head that he needed to completely rewire their brain to be able to handle actually having information downloaded like a computer. By the time he realized this Bree was too far along so he turned his attention to the next subject. He made Chase more computer like and did a bunch of stuff that would allow Chase to handle actual changes to his brain from outside influences. It’s why Chase has the Commando and override app. The other two can’t have actual apps in their heads like that because they weren’t created to handle things like that.

Yayyy another person to talk about Spike/the Commando App with!!

And this is such an interesting thought that I love!! These are all great connecting ideas too, the idea that Chase has these apps because he has a computer in his mind to process and handle it all unlike his siblings and not just because his main ability is super intelligence. After all, he does have more room for upgrades than his siblings. I love this idea!

I do wonder though if after Douglas were to hypothetically do this he went and gave Adam and Bree some from of compatibility to their chips since Chase can connect to them essentially through bluetooth. But him having the computer not only for his intelligence but also for his apps and to process the use and control of these apps alongside his normal brain is really something to think about. Not only that, but he does have a bunch of wiring inside his head and a bunch of different scanners from his bionic eyes that are also linked to his computer system too (identifying people, fingerprint scanning, etc.)

And with the Commando App, we see that in both versions, especially the first one we see in 1x03, that there is a bunch of coding that appears during the activation and deactivation of the app. This almost seems to imply too that the app truly is still not 100% complete, which matches with the Beta version we see.

We also see that the Commando App has an entire targeting system connected to Spike's vision. In the first version this comes in the form of Spike scanning the threat's face before completely locking onto the target as an "imminent threat."

In the second version, this just comes in the form of a literal target being in Spike's vision. He also has a gauge that measures his aggression level, which obviously varies for him. Not only that, but on the right side of Spike's vision he has gauges to measure speed and visibility presumably of his target, which is kind of scary lol.

A mystery however is why does the chip interrupter not only not work on the Commando App, but instead makes Spike more aggressive? It most likely has something to do with affecting the computer system in Chase. Maybe it doesn't work because Spike is an app and is potentially more linked to the computer in Chase than his chip? Is it just a glitch in general? Is Spike's aggression increase also a glitch or is it a defense mechanism against an outside influence? Who knows!

One last thing to note is the fact that after Spike takes a hard hit from Perry, it actually causes an error in Chase's computer system and glitches the Commando App out and forces it to disengage. Maybe this is something that would "naturally" happen or this is another example of the incomplete app being unstable (because one would imagine that this caliber of app and its purpose of fighting shouldn't be able to glitch out and shut down after a hard hit)

Another intriguing thought is that a few of Chase's abilities are apps but are considered "abilities" like the Commado App or his Magnetism App, if that makes sense. Some of his "abilities" are directly related to his computer system as apps compared to his normal "abilities" like his laser bo or forcefield. I just thought that that was interesting to point out because I never really realized that until now!

There's a lot to think about with this, and since we were never meant to dive this deep into because it's a Disney XD show, there's a lot to play around with!

[ophthalmotropy]

I just need to force myself to overwork myself this year and all shall be swell.

[fanfictionjumbler]

I didn't even know AO3 was having a problem until I tried going on. Not even the issue that apparently happened hours ago because they didn't post on the news Tumblr

[grandwretch]

I still haven't watched Severance but I can't stop thinking about how much it would fucking suck to have it when you're autistic

[plounce]

my emoooootional issues and my physical iiiintimacy issuuuues