#dingbot

[beesgav]

did the meme, then decided to draw it

[kidcore-nostalgia]

[etakeh]

I can't tell you how much anxiety this causes me.

[coutelier]

I still have my Dingbot around somewhere, although unfortunately it's long since stopped being able to zip about changing directions (not that it was ever really that good at it to be honest).

Dingbot 5400 (DING-BO, OMS-B) by Tomy, Japan (1985). With a design supposedly inspired by ET, Dingbot runs around aimlessly, changing direction whenever it bumps into something. “The battery operated Dingbot is a good communicator, emitting little squeals of excitement as he shakes his head, smiling as he moves about changing direction as he bumps into objects. He is a fast traveling robot who bumps into walls and obsticles, chatters, turns his head, speeds off in another direction, carries his own floor plan in his arms. He is a funny robot who is slowly learning the meaning of walls. He's dingbot.”

[calmingpi]

Messy sketches related to kajas demo stream yesterday. Clanks stole the show for me

[girl-genius-comic-tourney]

Round 3

[fanfeline]

anyone else playing the girl genius video game?

[shrikeseams]

#inescapable follow-up thought: dingbot!maedhros#dingbot!all feanorians…don’t kill them just severely compromise their ability to kill… -@tanoraqui

You underestimate Feanorian ingenuity! Maedhros would live to wield is 6 inch dingbot body as deadly as his 6 foot elf body. 😌 (Possibly by poisoning water supplies, but you can't have everything.)

I just think Maedhros would really enjoy the chance to be Castle Heterodyne, y'know?

[wolfiso]

Girl Genius Self Insert OC Poll

The world of Girl Genius is frightfully well populated for a setting of Marvelous Manic Mad Science. It's very easy to imagine all sorts of folk in the background feuding, flouncing, fighting, (and other verbs that start with f ;)) without necessarily crossing paths with the main story. With that in mind, let's imagine for a moment...

[big-ass-magnet]

I was mulling over my total inability to guess where the Foglios are ever going with anything, so:

Yes includes things like lost in time, died but was revived, zombie-type revenant, trapped in stasis, trapped in dingbot, or any 'dead in every way that matters' situations.

No includes being dead.

(If his consciousness is in a Lucrezia esque summoning engine: not implanted in a body=dead, in a body=alive)

No 'it's complicated' option because while I know death is a very surmountable problem in the GG universe, to me, "are you alive right this second" is a very yes/no question.

[beesgav]

BIG SIPPY

[professorsparklepants]

Sorry but we accidentally put your boyfriend into a dingbot. Yeah we transferred his consciousness from his mortal flesh into a machine the size and shape of a pocket watch. We can't catch him because he keeps hiding in the crawl spaces like a mouse. Sorry.

[stephantom]

@marlocandeea I took the Percy Shelley book of poetry! thank you for tagging me :)

Tagging @obliviousmelon @howtoleavetheplanet @boopill @marley-manson @scifihobbit @anintelligentoctopus @sybilius @believerindaydreams @lyledebeast and anyone who sees this and wants to do it!

[voronosity]

For Want of a Nail: Girl Genius AU

Dingbots can't pick locks they can't reach. Or perhaps the jail is guarded from the outside, and our little friend is caught before it can help its creator. Whatever the reason, the geisters in Sturmhalten who told Agatha of the Holy Child were never freed.

How would the pieces fall? Tinka is successful leading Agatha to her new Storm King, then to her circus. Agatha was let free by Tarvek with an invitation to return and help with the Muses, no battle in her mind. Tarvek scrapes by without being stabbed or shot multiple times.

The old Prince Aaronev is still dead, and The Baron still arrives ready for a confrontation with the Other. Unfortunately for him, The 7th Groundnaut Mechanical, The 5th Airborne, a wing of the Hoomhoffers, and two Bug Squads arrive hours, if not days, after the circus fled as fast as they could (while still being On Stage). It will take them longer to reach Mechanicsburg without a stolen Wulfenbach airship, but they will reach it all the same. Zeetha never met her father, but Lars is alive and no chicken houses fell on the Baron.

Anevka is alive, for all that you can call her that. She has a poor imitation of Agatha's Voice, but it will be of no help against the Baron. Tarvek was never QUITE desperate enough to pull out the Spark Wasp. No hologram accused the Baron of being The Other, and Klaus hasn't been wasped or firmly convinced of Lucrezia's presence. He will no longer be rushed to the great hospital, nor will he be desperate to carpet bomb Mechanicsburg. He shows up prepared, but still open for diplomatic discussion with the newly officiated Lady Heterodyne.

What comes next is anyone's guess.

[calmingpi]

[girl-genius-comic-tourney]

Round 1