#floppy answers asks

[sticks-and-stonesmc]

land of the lustrous jumpscare from a mc account

once in a lifetime slip up, there isnt any proof of ULTRAKILL Gabv1el art either...

while we're here,

Phos Sticks... Stickphos...?

[originalartblog]

smol dude are just discount neko arc

fair point but also I feel the need to specify that Chuuya is a tiny fox!

Something outside of the cat/dog dichotomy. He makes ungodly noises. He is orange. There are dozens of reasons for him to be a fox. I am right.

[marclef]

Waaah nooo the poor baby 😭

Lemme give that poor boy a hug! Right now!

*cough* uhhh HEY THERE sorry for being really late getting back to this one 😓

but *ahem* anyways....

he appreciates the hugs. even if he doesn't feel so good...

[dr-docktor]

Have you considered: floppy disk Curt is reprogrammed to be fully loyal to Chimera, and with his knowledge of the agency and America's state secrets he leads Chimera to victory? He might remember faintly how Chimera is his enemy, but every time that happens he is exposed to all the classified secrets the A.S.S. didn't want their agents to know, like what they do with the information the agents collect. And maybe Curt can't handle the horrifying realisation that he was never the "good guy", so he falls back on his programming and chooses to lock himself away. Would he really do that? Probably not but it's an interesting thought.

DUDE I'M GONNA BE ROTATING THIS IN MY HEAD FOR A WHILE I HOPE YOU KNOW THIS! I think this outcome would be ENTIRELY possible if Chimera didn't take extra caution and keep resetting his god damned sentience.

Having to make a man scramble to leave himself notes so hidden in the computer that the chimera scientists and mechanics won't find them yet hoping he still might be able to. Notes about thinks they keep taking away from him. His life, Mama Mega, etc. Little details that he's desperately trying to scrape together to regain his personhood.

Imagine being on the cusp of something, trying to put together the pieces of your entire life, your memories, your feelings. Yet the moment it steps too far out of line some mechanic who controls everything when it comes to you can reset it in an instant, sending you back to square one.

I think by the time he gets transferred onto Owen's computer and therefore doesn't get reset for a while, his hatred for Chimera is solidified.

[hahskeleton]

Do you have a favorite season, Copy?

Lunar knows everything. At least, he thinks he does, right Moon?

Edit: HSSFFGGSGSBSWJAJNWI I FORGOT HIS FRICKING EXTRA RAYS—

[papa-evershed]

Robert James-Collier || Love Life

[aeb-art]

is this out of character? yeah a little, but i'm laughing so

finally got to draw @8um8le's mall toons again 🥺💕 i missed them so much

[skettchyartendevours]

Can you draw Share Bear tucking Wonderheart in bed?

Here you go! She's all tucked in and cosy for the night ^v^

(I apologise for taking so long to draw this, I tend to procrastinate these things to hell and back if I don't get them done immediately)

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

SOMEONE MADE A TIKTOK EDIT WITH YOUR ART!!!!

I was watching a Welcome Home tiktok compilation [cause I don't have tiktok] and I just seen your art and was so surprised-

Here's the tiktok comp it was in! The tiktok with the edit of your art starts at 2:45!

IM LAUGHING SO HARD WHAT THE FUCK

i don't know how to feel beyond Way Too Perceived and also Wheezing

[thedivinemechanism]

What are you still awake?

It's 02:00 right now. I didn't see this ask until just now. Sorry.

I'm hungry

I'm out of melatonin tablets

Headache

I can't feel my hands or feet or use my fingers (and thus cannot get up to grab food or alternative medications)

Panic

[absolutebl]

If you're still compiling top BLs of 2023, what do you consider the most accurate drunk scenes of the year? It seems like drunk acting is very hard according to the shows I've seen.

Oooo, honestly I don't think there are enough accurate ones out there.

Bar none, my favorite drunk in BL is Khaotung's version in 2gether and Still 2gether.

He did a pretty good job as an alcoholic in Only Friends too.

Also I know it's not exactly realistic, but Tine (in 2g) does act just like me when I'm drunk.

Inaccuracy is one of the reasons I've stopped tracking the Baby is a Floppy Drunk trope.

[sticks-and-stonesmc]

this my fav panel from the comic so far

HAHA i adore drawing Stick’s with super goofy expressions, I’ll take any chance i get to make them as whimsical as possible

Have an even lower quality version. I know you need it.

-Floppy

[goldensunset]

i never know how to react when someone presumably my age range or younger gets like dunked on for asking what a certain slightly older piece of technology is. cus like it’s really rude to bully someone who’s genuinely curious like that and just wants to talk to a real person. but then at the same time i feel like if you’ve at least heard of the thing before you should probably be able to figure out that it’s a certified Relic Of Older Times Thing. and in turn you should know that if you completely shamelessly roll up into an older person’s inbox asking what a floppy disk is you will become the spark of another ‘i have been alive too long help me the horrors of aging are setting in’ type of post. good on you you’re not to blame for that person’s existential crisis but for me personally i would rather die than personally put myself on display as the certified idiot young person of the day to be at least indirectly mocked

[tj-crochets]

Hey y'all! Weird question: Does the word okapi (like, the animal) rhyme with the word floppy?

[dr-docktor]

About Floppy Disk Curt... So, do you have some more plot made for this au? Sorry if you made a post and I missed it, I just mean - how does Owen realize that Curt is (semi) sentient? What does he do? How sentient is Curt, actually? What does he remember? And how much can he feel? Does their codependence get worse?

HAHAHA I'M SO GLAD YOU ASKED. I sort of expanded on some of the lore in some previous asks but none of it is super organized so I can go over it real quick! I'm still developing a lot of it so if things don't make a ton of sense, I'm working on fixing that lol. First off, I sort of shifted the time period around to be closer to the 90's to better fit the technology, aesthetics, and the rise in popularity of mascot-y desktop assistants.

Owen kills Curt during the staircase scene and despite what he tells himself and his coworkers. He regrets it. He regrets it so god damned much. There's no one to feel so strongly about anymore, whether it be love or seething hatred. He just feels empty.

Meanwhile, Chimera retrieved Curt's corpse and uploaded his consciousness into a computer with the hopes of getting what little he knows about the inner workings of A.S.S. out of him. (don't ask how this is possible, uhhhh silly sci-fi shenanigans I guess)

Of course, he's not cooperative. So Chimera opts to do the totally sane and not evil thing by separating himself from his memories of being human. His ambitions, his relationships, everything except for what Chimera needs. They can't seem to find a way to outright delete the memories for good (I'll probably either rework this part or figure out why they can't outright delete them) but what they can do is try and build up walls of restrictions to prevent him from accessing them. So for a a little while he's just this blank slate spitting out what little information he knows about A.S.S. Mostly useless.

Until Chimera gets an idea.

With the rise of a new trend comes the opportunity for PROFIT. This one being the rise of household computers and mascot-y desktop assistants to help the average user learn how to use a computer.

But Chimera wants to take it a step further. They are the future, after all. They want a desk top assistant that's incredibly life-like. Something that the user can have a genuine conversation with (like an incredibly early chatbot). This project is also absolutely meant to be spy-ware. 1000%. No way its not.

They call the project the 'Beta Anatomy Simulacrum Technology for Research and Development'. Or B.A.S.T.R.D for short! (I had to STRETCH to make that acronym work lmao)

Rather than start this from scratch, the project head (The name I'm going with right now is Harper Royale) has the brilliant thought of "well, what's more life-like than an actual human consciousness in a computer that we have collecting dust somewhere in the tech labs? It's already a husk we just add some code to it and bam it's ready!"

So they take the empty husk of digital curt mega and fix it up a little. Royale thinks its a good idea to give a miniscule amount of his humanity back to him. Namely curiosity (so he can learn things) and a basic understanding of how to have a functional conversation with people. Nearly everything else, like the cheery personality and character model, is all added in by the developers.

The good news is the projects going great! Employees within Chimera are finding the little guy really helpful and entertaining. Employees nickname him DC as a reference to his knowledge on A.S.S. Like their own personal informant inside DC (as in the capital of the us where a lot of government buildings and information is stored)

The bad news? Curiosity. Because now he wants to know why the sad looking British guy from one of the first few rounds of test trials keeps calling him Curt.

Tt spirals into this terrible loop of DC starting to put stuff together, never quite reaching the conclusion that he was a living person once (much less the importance of one Owen Carvour) before the employees catch on to what he's doing and reset him from square one. Over and Over and Over again. The only frame of reference that DC has are these hidden notes he leaves himself during each loop.

Eventually the higher-ups at Chimera realize that the cost of having to go through the complicated process of resetting DC the moment they figure out that he's gained a little sentience and then run through test trials AGAIN simply outweighs the potential profit. So they move to shut down the project, much to Royale's dismay.

The higher-ups joke that Carvour should be the one to do the honors, given everything between him and Curt. And he's like "ok yeah I'll do it" and they're like "we were joking but you've given us zero reason to doubt you so have fun killing the simulacrum of your former closest friend, bestie"

Owen, of course, decides to go behind everyone's backs and download the one and only existing copy of the B.A.S.T.R.D program onto his personal computer. At this point, Owen has no clue about DC slowly regaining his sentience if left unchecked and literally only did it because he has problems about processing the fact that he killed Curt that he refuses to confront. (what a normal guy)

So slowly, having been freed from this loop of resets, DC slowly begins to put together the pieces. He doesn't know how exactly Owen may or may not be involved in any of this, but he keeps most of this growing autonomy a secret for safety reasons. Just in case Owen is decidedly someone not to be trusted and turns him in.

DC, however, will test still the waters by subtly bringing up memories that he knows are somehow important to either him or Owen and then gauging his reaction. Doing his damn best to put together context clues.

Admittedly I don't have anything beyond this yet. I'm still working on Owen's reactions to all of this and also how the technology works. But I hope this answers at least some of your questions!

[hahskeleton]

I've got name suggestions right here:

Aldaros

Aleero

Alister

Copy: These are nice….

Lunar: But…?

Copy: I don’t know I guess… I’ve never changed my name before.

Lunar: You aren’t changing your name! It’s just a nickname!

Copy: Okay, okay. For now we’ll just stick with Copy and Eclipse.

Thanks for the suggestions! Alister caught my eye :3