#i have to crumble into dust

[soyochii]

Quick doodles before I evaporate.

[leftneb]

alr here's me yapping about the landoscar Detroit: Become Human AU @lyslsstuff and I have cooked up over the past week or so

(decided to make a full post about it bc a. I have many MANY thoughts about it and b. you people are clearly not normal about this either) (affectionately)

first off have another WIP (peep the blue blush and the lines on their faces I'm totally normal about it yesyes) I unironically had to hide their heads a couple times because the sheer homosexual glee on their faces was making me nauseous (this is how I know I've succeeded as an artist)

the main concept goes: oscar is an F1 driver, and lando is one of his android mechanics. unbenoknownst to the general public (and pretty much everyone except like. zak brown) is that oscar is also an android

androids are very much banned from f1

lando starts out as a normal android, just following his programming and minding his own business really. altough the au plays out after the android revolution androids are still mistreated, just in subtler ways. technically they're not owned by anyone (but they're only allowed to exist when employed) and there's no segregation in public (but there's no laws against it) and some people are vaguely accepting (guess what there's no hate crime or hate speech laws either)

basically I went with the game's commentary on capitalism and treatment of minorities and made it a lot more actual c: we're not oppressing you (but we're also not not oppressing you)

the real plot begins when lando (accidentally) finds out that oscar is an android, which both of them proceed to be completely normal and not disgustingly in love about for the rest of eternity

one of my favorite things about this au (and this was completely unplanned it sorta just happened on it's own) is that the car is basically the 3rd main character. the way I'd explain it is basically: rk800 connor in the game is able to reconstruct entire events (crimes in his case) by examining details and piecing it all together. both lando (being a mechanic) and oscar (actually pulling functions out of the thing) are intimately familiar with the car, like they KNOW it on a personal level pretty much, they can reconstruct every single thing that is happening mechanically by hearing the sound it's making alone

for oscar this is sort of unfortunate because he is suspiciously good at telling when something is wrong (way before anyone else can really). but it also makes both of them emotionally attached feel connected to their machines which I think would be a genuinely interesting aspect of having androids in motorsports

thought I had while writing that paragraph: since irl the cars are usually identified by their drivers' numbers ("car number 4" and such) it could be that oscar litterally just calls his car "81". like that's just it's name. very creative ik

for the enjoyers of the original game I'd add that oscar's deviancy arc (in the sense of which impulses he recieves that lead him to disobey his programming) is most similar to markus' while lando's is more akin to connor's

bonus details that I can't really fit in a paragraph but want to add anyway:

android movements being inhumanly smooth conveniently mirrors oscar's irl driving style (minimal movement)

oscar normally has his pain receptors on despite being able to disable them. something about wanting to feel human (refuses to turn them off after crashes he feels were his fault despite mark scolding him about it)

yk the thing where both of these idiots are always dressed for opposite weather? yeah here it actually makes sense they were just programmed that way

I have no idea where lando's name comes from androids don't have names by default. they just get called "it" for the most part except oscar sometimes slips up and calls lando by his given name (that sounds very trans when I put it like that) which everyone else collectively goes "who the FUCK is lando" at

android transgenderism

I will not elaborate on that (note: I am trans. I will project this)

fun fact the piece that started it all ^^ was quite litterally just me seeing a picture of lando and going "dbh vibes" despite my knowledge of the game consisting of maybe half a playthrough I kinda-watched in 2021 (tubbo played it on stream lmao). it's safe to say that I may have hyperfixated on it a little tiny bit taking into account the 10 hours of playthrough I've watched and 2283 words of google doc we've written since that fateful day. whoopsies

also want to conclude this by saying that I purposefully didn't give too much away about the AU plot-wise because the hypothetical fic that hypothetically may come into existance at some point is hypothetically still a ways away and I don't want to spoil it too hard. consider this a director's commentary if you will

lmk if you wanna be added to the tag list for posts related to this au btw!!! I absolutely love hearing people's thoughts on it (though I am gonna be a bit busy in the coming weeks)

tag list (more people asked me to talk about this than I anticipated soz if I didn't respond directly I hope this makes up for it) @roosterhouse @wisteriagoesvroom @kpiastri @kingkestrel

[kayawolfhorse]

In my heart of hearts, at the end of the session the snails seemed to disappear inside their shells with a little pop, and after curiosity got the better of the lifers, they lifted the shells up to reveal a pocket-sized, completely harmless version of their snails they could keep as friends

[princyvish]

40 year old sanuso I wish I liked how it looked the sketch looked so much better 😭

[penny00dreadful]

Steve with a whip

Like a bullwhip

Steve cracking a bullwhip back and forth.

Send post.

[gingersnaptaff]

Do u think Bedwyr was heartbroken when he'd heard Cai died? When he had to bear Excalibur into the lake and watch as the Lady bore it aloft, up, up, up, down, down, down, until it sank back beneath the waves. Like think about it, his two best buds are dead, the two boys he'd always been lumped with, the two men who he'd grown alongside, the king and the seneschal perished in battle. The two men he'd loved the best.

(And said goodbye to the most.)

And him, left to wander the earth, nothing more than a monk, a hermit, a hollow echo of a distant, destroyed kingdom, crippled by grief and guilt.

[qqueenofhades]

are you old enough to have ever used CDs regularly? im getting a car soon (used, its old enough that it doesnt have bluetooth and only has a CD player for music) so i went to buy some of my favorite albums in CD form and i had to go to a literal antique store to find them. it made me feel old and im only like 18

Oh honey. I first used CASSETTES. CDs were just starting to be new and trendy when I was a kid. I went to BLOCKBUSTER to RENT A VIDEOTAPE. I had to pick what I wanted to watch with my sisters ahead of time, then drive to the store and GET THE VIDEO. If they didn't have it, we had to get something else, then watch it, then rewind it, then drive it back. If we wanted to see something in the theater, we had to CHECK THE LISTING IN THE NEWSPAPER. Or call the theater and listen to the recorded messages of showtimes. Man oh man.

[crow-caller]

good angel turns 7 goddamn years old on the 22nd I'm going to lose my head. did you know bad end is 6.5 years old. Did you know Angel radio is 8.5. Did you know I'm 27. did you know time continues ceaselessly forward and so do i

[what-have-i-unleashed]

on that last note, war au ink and error beef oughhhhh the girls are fightinggggggg

the multiverse is collapsing due to the disconnect between the creators and the creations, so basically all the meta-aware characters (ink, error, killer, etc.) cannot hear the voices of the creators or feel their presence anymore. the state of the multiverse is literally a big allegory for an abandoned work. so, my idea right now is to have ink represent the urge to continue creating, going back again and again to the wip to try to finish it. and error represent the urge to delete it all, to scorch the work off the face of the earth. their ideals are just what the creator(s) is thinking all the time, basically.

[chaoticprussia]

i hate him i hope he explodes. im not even tagging this. im just pathetic and im obsessed with this pathetic stupid gay man. fuck you.

GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD

[saturnniidae]

'To Catch a Changeling' was the first episode where Jim actually kills someone (not counting goblins), and I've always wished there had been some kind of focus on the moral ramifications he experienced because of that.

Because there's no way he just went from being unable to kill a gnome, a creature considered a common pest, to killing a person with no afterthoughts other than: "oh man! I killed our only evidence of changelings in arcadia!"

Though I guess he could've just been doing a shit ton of compartmentalizing as well as justifying it to himself with the fact she was going to kill both him and Toby. But still, there's no way he didn't feel at least somewhat guilty.

[minghzi]

That moment you realized, you still had something to lose. Something important enough that, if it happened again because they wanted to protect you, you could never forgive yourself. 

 But you're both still alive. You've never felt so weak. And so does he.

[lunarlicorice]

various celeste doodles from the past month and 2 egret

colored a thing from my sketchbook / ...thinking of "funny ship dynamics" with a friend got out of hand / i don't remember drawing this but i still like the pose / having a normal one

[esleep]

mk.gee tonight i'm scared :))))

[saltlickmp3]

oh yeah they guy i work with now said that he could tell i was a goth even though i wasnt even dressed that Gothic, i chose some music for the store and he went oh yeah i could tell you were a goth yay yippee i have a gothic soul

[thischarmingand]

Speaking of Zombies Run, I went to see Tokyo Poliec Club's farewell tour last night (the first time I have seen this band in at least 10 years) and was bodied back to listening to this song while listening to Sam Yao talk about the previous Runner 5 for the first time and... still hits, man.