#but. awagga

[possiblytracker]

normal now and got polls apparently time to be funnyTM abt my entire month of radio silence on main

[smile-files]

i'd always been kinda confused by the whole pseudo-plot about cabby's parents, but in the context of ii16 it's actually pretty good foreshadowing.

bot in a way is the only contestant to have a parent or parents, as they're the only one whose life was purposefully, consciously created by someone (we don't know if mephone made the other contestants knowingly, so that distinction is important). mephone is like bot in that he's a sentient machine created by someone consciously. funnily enough, despite mephone and bot being debatably "more fake" than the others for being machines, they are real in that they have a genesis to look back to, while the other contestants don't. the synthetic is the organic, and the organic is the synthetic.

all of them -- mephone, bot, the other contestants -- were all made to serve a specific function. but the thing is, mephone and bot, by being made consciously and knowing that they were made consciously, can be aware of that intended function from the get-go and actively defy it. the others couldn't, as it wasn't until now that any of them knew they were made to serve a function at all. they took their personhood for granted, while mephone and bot knew they had to prove it for themselves.

i've seen criticisms of AE couching this foreshadowing within cabby's memory disability being ableist, which are fair, but i personally am fine with it -- i don't think cabby's whole character and whole disability were written for that purpose; i think, rather, that AE thought that cabby not remembering a lot of things would present a good opportunity to reveal a hidden fact of this world without us even realizing it's been revealed. it had been established at this point that cabby has memory issues, so we wouldn't automatically find it suspicious that she has no memory of her parents. note how it's specifically bot that asks cabby about her parents! the one person here who has parents!! and it makes sense for the hidden reveal to happen through cabby, because she's the sort of person to ruminate on what she can't remember -- any other contestant would just assume they have memories with parents of some kind and not dwell on it. in my opinion, it's organic and pretty clever!

(that doesn't make the rest of the episode not ableist, though. it really really is lol)

[phantom-jeep]

awagga

[oswinunknown]

Six egos!

Special Thanks to the following people for suggesting these egos!

@leebeedraws, @selfshippinglover, @statictay @alienapparatus

[employee052]

begin the game again

[hecksupremechips]

Girl like. The reason he said "this is how it should be" and faced death with a smile....is cuz he wanted to die. For 2 years he sat there thinking he was worthless and deserved to die. If he hadn’t be shot, his death would’ve been suicide, he was fully planning to die in a gutter somewhere undetected. When saying "this is how it should be" hes literally saying "don’t cry because I’m dying, my death is a good thing actually because I fucking suck and you are better off without me". I don’t think that’s badass even slightly, it’s actually really sad and really shitty. Shinjiro is so convinced that he deserves to die and hates the idea of anyone giving a shit about him because he literally can’t wrap his mind around the idea that he will be missed when he’s gone, that his death is a bad thing actually. And his last words were meant to be comforting because he fully did not intend for anyone to be there when he died, he intended to die alone, so he says them as a reminder that he’s not worth crying over

Personally, if it were me, if I was holding my dying best friend in my arms who was deeply depressed and suicidal and he said "this is how it should be" uh. I wouldn’t admire him for it??? Like am I losing my mind when I say the way this game handles Shinji is bad or is anyone else seeing this too 😰

[mrthenarrator]

My submission for the date with Narry thingy

Narry, if you choose me, I will go along with the story and the script you have laid out! I’m a pretty good listener so I can probably take the directions well!

Have a great day! -Capgras #ADateWithNarry

“Well... you drive an amazing bargain I will admit, Capgras. It’s been a good while since i’ve had anyone within the Parable to actually go through my story. Though if course after going along with the story for an ending or two I can try writing something for you myself!”   

[lucifer-the-fetus-eater]

you ever feel the need to say something profound and poetic but the best thing you can think of to express yourself is 'awagga'

[hadal-heart]

jesse i need tag ideas

[tired-homie]

Their muffin exploded in their microwave

[nullapophenia]

NEIL GAIMAN WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY FALAFEL

[smile-files]

purpose!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the thing they were made to do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! compete in mephone's stupid challenges!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[maythray]

like a lizard he is :)

[hellsite-proteins]

awagga

this isn't even a protein, its just a weird little peptide, but why not?

letter sequence in this ask matching protein-coding amino acids:

awagga

protein guy analysis:

honestly i was impressed that AlphaFold was even able to analyze something with only 6 amino acids, and i was feeling optimistic. unfortunately, i was wrong and this looks bad. have you ever looked at a chemistry assignment that caused you genuine distress? one of the ones where someone made 5 bonds to carbon or added d orbitals to an oxygen? that is the feeling i am currently experiencing. two of the bonds are stretched distressingly far and some cursed ring-like abomination has formed at the end that is too messy to describe. this looks like a crime scene and i am having a bad time. i can't believe this is what i get for trying to be positive.

predicted protein structure:

cartoon representation

stick representation

close up of bond mistakes

[employee052]

random narry doodles