#emotional machines

[northernwillow]

I love all of these very much:

characters that are emotionless machines <3

characters that are emotional machines <3

characters that are emotionless humans <3

characters that are emotional humans <3

characters that have transcended emotion <3

but.. (major story spoilers for the SAYER podcast from here on out so if you haven't already PLEASE GO WAtCH IT I'M BEGGING YOU!!!!!)

...I love emotional machines the most at the moment. For instance; I will always cry when SPEAKER confronts the idea of their own mortality at the hands of SAYER and the Ærolith Dynamics Board to preserve humanity.

And the sadistic games that FUTURE likes to play with the poor, poor employees of Ærolith that stumble onto Floor Thirteen.

Especially the AI Development Team.. or whatever is left of it.

And even OCEAN, who I won't get too much into due to like, end of podcast spoilers, is more detached and dismissive of humanity due to the deactivation of the IA3 Protocol. (And general distaste for humanity due to their lingering desire to remain with Earth instead of spreading across the stars under tbe firm guide of Ærolith.)

In conclusion: go watch SAYER. It's very good. I like emotional machines, and I hope you liked my little funky thoughts and ideas!!

[scatterbrainedbot]

cass, a professional: order of badass donbot, extra dramatic entrance!

me, nodding, banned from most kitchens: leo drama and angst, heard chef!

(shoutout to @somerandomdudelmao for yet again making feel emotions i cannot fully explain)

[the-blue-phantom]

rereading network effect and one of my favorite parts remains the hissy fit murderbot throws after ART comes back online. imagine being the humans in this situation. you almost died there's alien remnants and now your secunit is yelling at the suspiciously powerful ship youre in right now. its locked itself in the bathroom and is refusing to speak to anyone. there are dead bodies all over the ship.

[catherine-sketches]

For the people saying that Jayce had no motivation to shot Viktor…

Did you not see the fucked up shit that Jayce is seeing?

My man went into the hexcore and saw horrors beyond his comprehension. He called hextech, HIS DREAM, a curse

When he looks at the people on the commune he sees hollow vessels with people faces and the marks of Viktor’s fingers

Jayce caved Viktor’s chest in because he KNEW that the pretty colors and the art deco architecture was a facade. That whatever Viktor is doing is stripping people from their true selves and leaving behind puppets that play a game called community where no one reacts like a normal person because no matter how good you life in your community is

NO ONE WOULD JUST STAND AND LOOK WHILE THE MAD HAMMER MAN NEARLY DISINTEGRATES WHAT LOOKS LIKE A CHILD TO ASHE

These are Zaunites. They would have curb stomped Jayce to the ground

But they didn’t

They stood there

Because their Machine Herald told them to “Suffer no more”

And what is fear, what is love, if not a form of suffering

[mipexch]

happy yuri day im thinking about if mirage ever fell back into a depression v2 would be there for her

[theoldkyokodied]

Uploading all my Tomgreg art at once from the past few week before season 4 hits, who knows in what kind of mental state i'm gonna be once it does :')

[haveyoumetmythief]

Don’t interrupt, she’s doing important teacher’s assistant work

[critter-of-habit]

Not to get emotional about my big dumb bird friends but, I love my big dumb bird friends.

If you watch Sunwings in the late afternoon, they will keep their wings outstretched to catch the last sunrays on their solar panels. Then as soon as the sun sets, they panic. They'll frantically flap up towards the west, squawking and flailing, before landing and booting up their shields - they'll repeat this pattern over and over again until dawn. But why raise their shields when there is no active threat? My theory is, they're scared of the dark. Their source of energy and light is gone and their tiny bird brains don't know it'll come back again because they aren't programmed to know about "morning". So they boot up their glowing shields, wasting their power, so they have some light against the dark.

Then the sun rises in the opposite direction and they go "...OH." and turn around to sunbath and recharge again.

So dumb, I love them.

[screaming-sparrow]

it seems i've made the final sacrifice

[icecreampizzer]

I DO NOT think I've posted this one here despite how much I loved drawing these. Wanted to draw my original characters' two main emotions!! Just clawing my way into their mind like a hungry little beast sniffing around how their brains work and all. As if I didn't make them up in my head myself. Real fun stuff.

[elsaqueenofstress]

thinking about how quill used music as his only reminder of his mother, to the point that he would risk his own life to save it and keep part of her alive, and how we're introduced to him as the one who dances while everyone around him rolls their eyes, and how he raises baby groot to be the first of the team to dance as openly and joyfully as him, and how this groot is the first one to dance during the last scene, and how rocket – who hums tunelessly while he works until he's building stereos to play tunes while fighting until his favorite song is "come and get your love" – joins him without any self-consciousness, and how quill left rocket his zune and team leadership but the first gift he ever gave him was a name for what he was: raccoon, and how drax overcomes his stubborn adherence to never dancing because what matters more to him than being a stoic destroyer is being a father, who makes the hundreds of children that look up to him laugh with delight, and who gets to watch mantis (whose innocence reminded him of his daughter) set off into the world with her own purpose the way his own child never got to, and how nebula dances along with them, no longer holding herself to the second-best status that thanos forced on her, instead at home as a leader who can fight with her family without having to compete with them, and how she stills talks to gamora, who is able to accept that she once meant the world to the guardians, once spoke their language and joined in their hugs and was part of their fun, but that she doesn't owe it to them to join in the dance and be that same person, and returns to the adoptive family that she feels at home with, and the lyric "leave all your love and your longing behind / you can't carry it with you if you want to survive," and how in order to go forward the guardians can't all stay together, but how that doesn't mean they aren't still a team and a family because how do you truly leave the people who have dragged you, doubting and kicking and screaming, toward comfort and security and happiness? for the hottest, slowest, laziest days to end, the ones where you lost best friends and spouses and children and siblings and years of your life and memories with someone, the ones where you run from your past and pretend you were never in pain, never loved anyone, you have to let that hope catch up with you (“happiness hit her / like a bullet in the back”). anyway i think this was a pretty good series like this post if you also had a laugh or two over cosmo the space dog's telekinetic hijinks!!

[asoftepiloguemylove]

in the crooks of your body, i find my religion

Charles Bukowski Raw With Love / unknown / @ruhlare / unknown / Anaïs Mitchell from Hadestown; Doubt Comes In / @violentfemmme / Florence + the Machine I'm Not Calling You a Liar

[fruttymoment]

We love The World Machine here sire

[its-always-sunny-in-city17]

Just finally watched TMP and dude. Duuuudeeee.

[queermasculine]

the reason i never get any art done is because if the piece actually starts looking kind of good i get so excited i throw up

[aeolianasio]

reads like warning text in cultist simulator/book of hours that i would simply ignore