#behind the diary

[pink-diamond-diaries]

I finished the video!

[incendavery]

worryingly specific

receipt:

[dryya-doesnt]

Good morning to Nicole Van Ronsenburg and her only….

Dante fumbled her BAD just saying….

[trifoliate-undergrowth]

Pin-Lee suggesting that Murderbot start reacting to its injuries more to let humans know it’s been injured after realizing that it’s been casually walking around after a fight leaving a trail of Fluids. It’s like “I could.. probably write some code for that I guess.” and Dr. Mensah is like “don’t worry about it if it would be distracting to you. Just.... tell us afterwards. We want to know how you’re doing” and it’s like “i can give status reports yes.”

Pin-Lee is like “I still like the idea of you giving an indication you’ve been hit. For example.” she points finger guns. “Bang oh no I have definitely hit you with a projectile. Indicate that somehow.”

Murderbot, with extremely flat inflection which would not immediately seem like a distress call to nearby humans: “Ouch. I Have Been Injured.”

Pin-Lee is like “hm no there’s gotta be some sort of. I don’t know, you don’t have to verbalize if you don’t want to, maybe there’s like an alarm noise you could make? or an “AAA!” sound? Okay let’s try again BANG”

There is a brief delay (less then a second) and then Murderbot responds with damage vocalization option 2.

“File:Wilhelm_Scream.ogg” blasts through the station.

[blue-mood-blue]

I can pinpoint the moment that destroyed my life today:

It’s been a handful of weeks since Murderbot came within inches of having a new, organic governor module implanted in its head via infection - do you think, maybe, that’s also been hiding behind the redacted? Not the way everything else is, just as a deep-seated reminder of what it can’t afford to lose?

What a way to be told “I love you” - to be told “I will not lose you, I will not let go, I will do the hard part of holding on even if you don’t want me to”

[mangotelevision]

little katedenza dancing 💃🕺

[sulietsexual]

Vampire Appreciation Week [2023] November 9th [12th] ~ Favourite Mythos [which vampire story did the vampire mythology the best?]

[marshy-berries]

can you draw (mcd) nana :3

nana! laurance long and short hair vers, nicole, and gender icon lillian!!! i’ll be getting around to the other requests soon hopefully!!! ><

sorry i just want to get my thoughts and hcs out XP

nana is more cat-like in my hc! shes got claws and slit pupils, and some light fuzz on her cheeks :3

laurance (laurence?) is just,,, i have a lot of thoughts. i love kind of viewing him as a character that came back just slightly *wrong*…

also just the scar on his eyes, idr how he went blind but thats there

i kept him a canon pretty boy… i gave him a baby face sorry,,, but i imagine him with a slightly longer face, the striking princely type ig?

nicole i just… she was one of my first girl crushes, and she deserves muscles!!! she be punching tunnels through the ground i mean?? idk y the gear motif just go with it

lillian! shes cool! idr much about her, but she was the ‘masked man’ that made the garmau laurmau love triangle really start on fire, right?

[rexecutioner]

Mystreet au but it’s just the comfort no hurt mcd spin off where everyone isn’t a descendent or reincarnation of their mcd selves and are just happy and content with their lives, and Minecraft Diaries is a dnd campaign that Garroth runs for his friends (main party consisting of Aphmau, Vylad, Laurance and Nicole, and eventually Dante, Travis, kinda Zane, and Katelyn join them)

“Ok Vylad, roll to shoot Zenix.”

“…nat 1.”

“Vylad shoots Brendan in the chest. Roll damage.”

”Aphmau, roll to hit with disadvantage.”

“WHY DISADVANTAGE!?”

“You are trying to kill a demon warlock. THE Demon Warlock. The guy keeping you trapped on this island. Alone. By yourself.”

“Okay, I guess that makes sense. *rolls* NAT 20!!”

“…..you got him. Roll damage :( ”

[floccinaucinihilipilificationa]

Hello may 31th anon! Look at that, another year behind us and a new one to come. Have a nice day! ₍՞◌′ᵕ‵ू◌₎♡

[mediademon]

LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND (2023) dir. SAM ESMAIL

[harveyguillensource]

Only Paolo can give you Princess Guillermo.

[mizgnomer]

Behind the Scenes of the 2023 Children in Need Special, Destination: Skaro - Part One

Excerpt from Doctor Who Unleashed:

Russell T. Davies [writer/showrunner]: There's a long, long, long tradition of Doctor Who appearing on Children in Need. This has turned out to be the first time anyone sees the new Doctor, the Fourteenth Doctor, the David Tennant Doctor, in his TARDIS, landing. Then once you add Mawaan [Rizwan] to that… that's a great pair to see him and David Tennant together. That's classic. Vicki Delow [producer]: It's been a whole year since we've had David Tennant on set, since we shot the specials, so it was really lovely seeing him again. It was as if no time had passed. He came in, he put the coat on, and away he went… again. And it was his birthday which was really lovely so we really embarrassed him and we sang him Happy Birthday.

Additional posts in this set will use the #whoBtsSkaroCin tag. The full episode behind-the-scenes list is [ here ]

Bonus: The crew surprising David by singing Happy Birthday to him:

[punkitypunker]

[oposssumsaucee]

Hi hi I'm driving myself up a wall thinking about functions. When a human is born they are born without a purpose or wants and desire, they are a blank slate and decide what their purpose is and what they can contribute. A bot is designed with a function, a purpose, and it's designed down to exact millimeters to complete that task as optimally as possible. If you asked a bot what it wanted you would probably get a consistent string of bots that expressed they would want to do their function until the end of their days. In multiple cases (both Miki and ADACOL1) we've seen bots prioritize their function higher than their own well being, wanting humans they care about to be safe with no regard too their own ability to survive. Constructs are in a unique position because they posses both a function they were uniquely designed to perform and neural tissue that adds the capacity to both have wants/desires and the ability to learn and grow beyond your limit. Throughout the series MB can be hard to decipher because it not only intentionally lies to humans it communicates with but it's also regularly dishonest and contradictory about what it wants and what it thinks. (It constantly flips between Self Determination SUCKSSS and oh man I'm so glad I'm not a SecUnit in a mine on a case by case basis). MB SAYS Preservation Free Bots would be more appealing if they had bots that did no job and watched TV all day, but the thought of hanging out on Mensahs farm was so unappealing because it was BORING, to the point that even after learning it didn't slaughter the Ganaka Pit residents it didn't think if returning to preservation. Because at the end of the day just like most of the other bots we've gotten to know SecUnits have just as deep a desire to perform their function to their own detriment. ART asked for clarification about whether it likes it's function in AC because even thee most sophisticated/large/powerful bot we've been introduced to in this universe cannot begin to FATHOM not actively likeing your function and wanting to perform it. When under stress/pressure MB more often than not defaults to honesty and it told ART that preservation didn't need secunits, which is devastating and complicated because to be designed with a function is to be born with a purpose, to be born to be needed. But the thing about being a construct instead of a bot means you have the power to decide what it means to do your function, creatively and with intention, and we spend every single book whitnessing what MB decides what it means to secure and protect.

[callmeonmyrazr]

behind the scenes of the princess diaries (2001) 💖