#i have no idea where they are actrually

[spaciebabie]

Do you have a twilight x fluttershy profile picture...?

yeahg

[3dot5]

OK I KNWO PEOPLE HAVE DEFINITELY DRAWN HNK SPLATOON BEFORE BUT HAVE PEOPLE REALISED ACTUALLY HWO SIMILAR THE ALTERNA STORY IS TO HNK

ok anywyas i drew som cephalopod versions of rocks also sorry they kinda suck my wacom drivers died halfway through the day so

aslsos they have toki pona on them ill translatedfdv

and i didnt give them clothes im lazy IDC

even though this au would actrually contain happiness i still wanted to keep some of phos main struggles bc i feel like thats just Them so i had the idea of them being a late bloomer who hasnt gained control over their form yet

Phos (Literally- The Posu Squid)

They cannot control their form

"Ah! I don't want to be semi-solid (/swim form)!!"

*don't be semi-solid!* (yeah sorry it sounds clunky. some words work better in toki pona)

Because of this they cannot fight. But they really want to!

"Dia!"

also i gave dia that thing yoko(???) has where they have multiple ink colours. i do wonder if that affects their actual ink or just their appearance. maybe i should check the wiki (sorry im not a splatbands bitch)

Shinsha

They want to talk to others, but they feel little (meant to come across as they feel shy)

"Blahblahblahblahblah" (Literally - "thing thing thing thing thing thing thing thing ah")

yes i included bort just so i could make them work at jellyfish daycare

Bort

They work at a building for little jellyfish (jellyfish daycare)

and here is adamant

im kidding probably

[futurewife]

alright so this bastard (affectionate) is Perseus form Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War (i just call it cold war now)

and he's actrually kinda REALLY bad. like legit in the "bad" ending of the game (Duga ending) HE SETS OFF LIKE 20 SMTHN NUKES IN EUROPE

like I get the "fuck the Americans hail out homeland" BUT RHAY MANY NUKES? AND THE USSR DIDNT EVEN KNOW HE WAS GONNA DO THAT

but like can you agrue with this handsome face tho

I've also been replaying the game a bit and it's kinda weird to be getting bakc into it

esp since it was a previous hyperfixation of mine but hey I get free Perseus XD

Oh he's bad bad. Yeah I was thinking isn't this a Soviet uniform? Hahaha. But isn't there something to be said about a "villain" that would pick you to watch the world burn with? In a purely fictional way that's pretty romantic. I always liked the idea of being like a partner and a right hand man and a sidekick where it's you and them vs. everyone else and it's a little obsessive.

Nice that you have rediscovered an old favourite of yours, with the bonus of it now featuring a character you're heavily attracted to.

[luciegould-blog1]

Alone Together - Sherry Turkle

Second Life – a virtual world where you get to build an avatar, a house, a family and a social life

Sociable robots and digital connections may offer the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship. Our networked life allows us to hide from eachother…we’d rather text than talk.

Sociable robots are being seen as substitutes for people and relationships – they ask us to look after them and care for them and we think that they will do the same for us in return.

Robots and simulations have become so common place – especially in the younger generations, that they value aesthetic and “more realistic” robots as opposed to authentic and alive / biologically real living creatures.

There is the idea and thought that robots and humans will become sexually intimate and that this will be beneficial to the human race as robots will be able to teach us how to be “better friends and lovers because we will be able to practice on them. Beyond this, they will substitute where people fail.”

Robots could require a “no risk relationship that would stave off loneliness”.

Machine / technology mediated relationships – text, emails, instant messages, twitter etc – redraw the boundaries between solitude and intimacy –

Things that happen in real time take too much time

Getting “rid” of our emails as though they are excess baggage

Build a following on social media and then wonder to what degree these followers are actually our friends.

“Sometimes people experience no sense of having communicated after hours of connection. And they report feelings of closeness when they are paying little attention.”

Bluring of intimacy and solitude begins with creating a social media profile or building an avatar.

“Are you facebook official yet?”

“If you’re spending 3-5 hours per day in an online game or virtual world – then those are 3-5 hours that you are not spending in the real world with your family or friends playing a game of face to face scrabble.

People feel let down when they move from the virtual world to the real world because they have built up a persona and a life that enhances them instead of showing a true reflection of who they are.

We can edit and rewrite our messages and profiles until they project the self that we want to be.

The world of connectivity is uniquely suited to the overworked and overscheduled life It makes possible.

The fact that we are on our devices in social situations shows that we are in social spaces but are disconnected from the people in the immediate vicinity and instead, prefer to be connected with our personal, virtual networks. We used to talk as we waited for appointments  or drove to the airport, now we answer to emails and messages.

“No one picks up the phone anymore” and people hate listening to voicemail (youngers)

“Texting offers just the right amount of access, just the right abount of control”

People are telling friends and family about engagemens and babies via email instead of face to face or through phone calls – making the receiver feel distant.

On the street we “speak into the invisible microphones on our mobile phones and appear to be talking to ourselves.”

Expectation of continuous connection – always on and always on them.

Our online lives are all about performance. We perform on social networks and direct the performances of our avatars in virtual worlds.

Tamagotchis – we build special connections to certain robots – we believe that they have certain qualities that make them unique and that when tey die or when they stop working, we are hesitant to rehatch or replace them as we feel that it isn’t the same.

People love their new technologies of connection – they have made parents and children feel more secure, revolutionized business, education, medicine etc.

Connectivity = experimentation with identity and the sense of free space – consequence free where you can fall into and out of love with people and ideas. The internet provides spaces in which we can do this.

Social media profiles intend to show us but they end up as fantasies of who we want to be and who we want to be seen as.

We don’t count cyber friends to come and look after us when we’re ill or to celebrate our birthday’s with us at a bar but we place so much emotional charge and pressure on the cyber friends.

Each person you care about is a tap away – if they don’t have time to talk you can send a text to let them know that you’re thinking of them – caring about them.

More photos on my phone than I would ever take with a camera

“With sociable robots, we are alone but receive signals that tell us we are together”

Being connected depends on, not our distance, but on how technologically connected we are.

When we are in social spaces, we are tethered to mobile devices so much so that we are actrually not present. When someone is having a phone call, he assumes that he will be ignored by those around him and that there is a special sort of anonymity that is bestowed upon his conversation.

People signal their departure from a conversation or place and mark themselves as “absent” when they’re on their phone. For example, glancing down at their phones during dinner or a meeting. When this occurs on a large scale, for example in a café which should be sociable, it can create a feeling of isolation – no one is really present as they are all on their own devices doing their own thing.  

“What is a place if those who are physically present have their attention on the absent?”