#architects need

[bixels]

vague-posting about this here cuz i don't feel comfortable yapping about my su takes on twitter, but after everything that's happened the most interesting thing about the su fandom to me is that so many are 100% there for applying the "everyone can change and deserves a second chance" message to everyone, even the diamonds. except for one ☝️ she doesn't count. cuz she's dead.

[gunstellations]

tiniest of haikaveh but drawn with love

counterpart

[dizzybizz]

someone needs to take him away from me, i have been thinking about him sleeping like a horse the entire day.

y'all just keep feeding me ideas huh,, @slam-monarchy, @horrocious, @prideofyunmeng

[bytewire]

Let's speculate about Architect Society!

I think there are some misinterpretations about how Precursor society works. It makes sense considering how vague a lot of the canon information is, but let me provide some of my perspective and interpretations on what we get in canon.

Architect society definitely deserves more speculation beyond just characterizing them as a race only focused on progress. The current information we have about how Architects operate is underrated in terms of how interesting it is. They definitely aren't a stereotypical hive mind. How Precursors perceive themselves is different from how they actually appear to function. AL-AN's answers don't lack bias. He is an unreliable narrator and often withholds information, so it's crucial to look deeper into the information given and to read between the lines. Especially as not everything is explicitly stated.

Architects exist as a collective—data points in a network—but people often forget that they do not only strive for efficiency. What they do is try to optimize themselves to perform tasks in the most efficient way possible. They strive to achieve and progress their society. This doesn’t mean that they lack culture. They are certainly more streamlined and orderly than humans, but they do have cultural aspects that impact the way they view things.

Some examples of Architect culture:

Architects produce art as seen by the statue in the Koppa mining site and the statue in the Deep Lilypad Caves Body Cache. Even the alien carving from the first game is an example of Precursors producing art with subjectivity.

Architects cultivate plants in greenhouses even though they do not need to eat. Also, of course, they have the Ancient Ornamental Plants that they cultivate for aesthetic purposes.

They hold pride in maintaining and improving a vessel for a long time. If a storage medium gets damaged, they wouldn’t opt to immediately make another vessel—even if it would be the most efficient.

They don’t all use the most popular format for their bodies; there are certain Architects that opt for different styles of storage medium.

Architects consider it rude to duplicate themselves.

All of their technology has similar aesthetic characteristics and design.

Precursors are cybernetic and composed of biotechnological components, yet they start out life as organic beings. They choose to incorporate biological tissues in their vessels suggesting they hold some sort of social ties to being organics. They actively make the choice to incorporate organic components.

Precursors potentially carry some nostalgia for their pre-civilized bodies, considering they model their vessels after them.

Architects have a concept of prestige. AL-AN is noted as the lead scientist for the Kharaa research project.

They have special training for certain young Architects and a Temple of Research that they are inducted into if they are distinct enough from other broodlings.

So, Precursors do not necessarily always do what is the most practical. They can and do practice certain things for subjective reasons. They have emotions that influence their actions. These emotions may not equate to human emotional behavior, but they certainly have them. AL-AN himself expresses shame many times.

While Precursors are a hive mind, they aren’t entirely unfamiliar with the concept of an individual. AL-AN merely says that they don’t see themselves as distinct. However, it is acknowledged at many points that a mind within the collective can have its own traits. Perspectives that either come with a body or ideas and needs that a mind has. They are able to act autonomously. The biggest example is AL-AN himself ignoring the network.

Though a mind having its own ideas doesn’t negate Architects being a collective. Especially when those minds work in conjunction with thousands of other minds to support the needs of the whole. AL-AN is just a very rare case where an Architect gets the opportunity to act as an individual. Even then, AL-AN expresses that being disconnected from the network is lonely and uncomfortable. Aiming to regain connection despite what he did in the past. AL-AN only uses the singular because he's present with Robin.

Precursors being so advanced makes things a little more complicated when trying to discern aspects of their species. We can't push human ideals onto a race so separate from us. Architects—being connected by the mind—do not have the same social structures as humans, so it's unfair to anthropomorphize them with our standards. We can only speculate on how they might work. Just because one mind can have differing traits doesn’t seem to make them distinct enough to classify as singular (within their species’ definition anyway). I'd love for there to eventually be more information given to us about their society.

Besides, all of this isn’t even considering the many unused voice lines that remain in the files that I’d love to go over…

[shoezuki]

being a fanfiction writer fucking sucks actually im tryna figure out what the structure of the government on belobog is like who else works in qlipoth fort and what different positions r there and its not even important. hate this

[mac-ann-cheese]

@reroscherries

Honestly, when I saw the first request on your wishlist, I immediately thought, "Christmas market". And then boom. This happened.

Also, I checked out your AU, and it's strikingly amazing. And your art is just awesome!!!

I hope you like my gift!!!!!!!!

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Plus, I have never really tried drawing Prumano, sooo big thanks for making me finally do that!!

And also a big thanks for hosting this Secret Santa @mada-jpeg and @maribeilschmidt (⁠◍⁠•⁠ᴗ⁠•⁠◍⁠)⁠❤

Merry Christmas to you all!!

[februairy]

channeling a bit of my personal life into these guys

both of them need sleep.

[russell-crowe]

i have been listening to quite a bit of U2 today and now the age old question of "which member is actually my fave?" has resurfaced

[sewerpalette]

Architects can change their form right? I mean their bodies are pretty much a few dozen organisms frankensteined together, so it wouldn’t be much of a stretch to imagine that even though it isn’t desirable to them they would be willing to get a new body that is based on only a quarter of said organisms, a form that isn’t akin to their usual bodies but more specific for certain planets / solar systems. I mean canonically we know that they can transfer to different bodies so it isn’t much of a stretch to imagine they do have different types of bodies for different planets and solar systems. So what would a humanoid body look like? I’d imagine it wouldn’t look like an actual human does, perhaps a little uncanny (eyes too far apart, nose too far up, lower arms too long, you get it) or just full alien, maybe a mix of features too. Would they have hair or would it be considered inefficient? Would they be taller or shorter than the average human? Female or male presenting? Or androgynous perhaps?

TLDR: if architects would create a humanoid(ish) body would it have hair or not?

[trash-can-sam]

What happens when your coworker kills your other coworker but both of you are in a relationship (kind of) with the same ethereal woman who had an admiration for said dead coworker.

+bonus Evandrey because it’s funny to me (I’m sorry Eva.)

[dorkfruit]

was playing corporate clash and was like. oh this is fun! it needs problematic yuri. here it is.

the context i wrote up + a um. kinda suggestive drawing down below

my vision was that the Rainmaker is apart of some highly successful family business legal group, which has just recently come into possessive of a large piece of land. my girl the Land Acquisition Architect (ms.LAA) hears about this and is like ohhhh yes. need to get in on this!! so she scopes it out and picks the weak link in the group, that being the Rainmaker, and pursues her in order to get her to sign over her cut of the land to her.

it’s going well, mostly because Rainmaker has no friends and has never had anyone express interest in her before ever, and so eventually ms. LAA proposes the Give Me Your Land deal, but tries to make it sound cute and fun. and Rainmaker is like… what? i don’t own any land. and ms. LAA is like. what do you mean you don’t, youre apart of that rich lawyer family that just got some. and Rainmaker is like. well i was. but i quit the business to pursue poetry (author’s note: it’s going terribly). and they disowned me haha (’:

ms. LAA then realizes this was all one big waste of time, and proceeds to ghost Rainmaker, who takes it really really poorly because she has received No Love her whole coggy life and is devastated. so she copes with it really normally by breaking into the land office and flooding it.

+

homosexual art promised down below:

i think that the Rainmaker should have a mask to cover the fact that her design was unfinished and scrapped, hence why she’s so Not Into Cog Stuff. they built most of the body, decided against it, and never added in the proper programming, so she’s glitchy (mentally unstable) and out of place in cog society smth smth watever…..more importantly it means GAY ENDOSKELETON KISSING.

ok that’s all

[heaven-zent]

thinkin’ bout buying land for a farm

[bytewire]

AL-AN’s stupid mitten claw things

[whataboutsimple]

Old Order — always an incident, always unexpected.

There HAS to be at least one time, when Magnus accidently pushed Gabriel into the lava in Nether.

There HAS to be at least one time, when Ellegaard accidently activated Magnus' TNT.

There HAS to be at least one time, where Ivor accidently throw potion of slowness instead of potion of speed.

There HAS to be at least one time, when Soren sang at 3 a.m. in the kitchen.

There HAS to be at least one time, when they all mixed up their rooms.

There HAS to be at least one time, when Gabriel carried one of them in wedding style. Probably all of them.

There HAS to be at least one time, when Magnus accidently blew up his room and slept with one of them.

There HAS to be at least one time, when Soren didn't let any of them do adventure stuff because it was raining.

There HAS to be at least one time, when Gabriel made a dad joke.

There HAS to be at least one time, when Ellegaard did "He asked for no pickles!" thing for Soren.

There HAS to be at least one time, when Ivor tried to date a witch. You can't change my mind.

There HAS to be at least one time, when they were hugging each other in case to not froze in snowy biome.

There HAS to be at least one time, when Soren got lost in their own house.

There HAS to be at least one time, when Gabriel, as responsible one, took them out of jail.

If you're still reading this, tbh they all dated each other at some point, trust me.

[mountainsofg0ld]

Hey besties, I'm Phoebe (She/Her) and I'm 26 from the UK. I haven't used tumblr in literally 8 years lmao. Making an account to scream into the void about some things so pls interact with this post to be moots if you like:

-Sleep Token

-Call of Duty

-Bad Omens

-Day Seeker

-Imminence

-Architects

Etc and also esp if you're a fanfic writer bc I've definitely got some ideas I'd love to bounce off some people!!

Love yall x

[neonteeth]

28 or 32 Marilis >8) other party dealer's choice

28. A kiss in parting

[ID: Digital drawing in brown monochrome of Nelaros and Marilis sharing a kiss while Marilis poses as if he were about to walk out a door. Nelaros is a white elven man with light skin and hair dressed in a simple tunic, trousers, and a blacksmith's apron who is resting a hand on Marilis' chest. Marilis, also a white elven man, has short dark curls and wears a leather utility belt atop similar clothes. End ID.]