#in fact i think it’s funny and justified

[lizardsfromspace]

Finally saw Alien: Romulus and god Ian Holm in that movie is the worst one yet. Yes his family approved and even liked it, and it's what Ridley Scott wanted, tbh if the family of someone who recently died wants to do some AI thing that they think will help them I don't really care, but that doesn't change that, morals aside, it looks like garbage. I'm sure they wanted him to look a bit uncanny but it's just so distracting. It's Ian Holm! From Alien (1979)! Now in tiny face form!

In this case they did build an animatronic and hire a voice actor, but they added deepfakes to "enhance" the effects & ran the voices through a AI filter. Could the animatronic have been that bad, for it to be turned into...this?

It's funny how it's the least justified one yet bc it's not even the android from Alien, it's just a unrelated synth from the same line. It could've been someone new. It doesn't strain credibility to imply Weyland-Yutani has more than one type of robot. I mean, given Ash's role was "robot spy nobody knows was a robot", it does seem odd that there'd be clones of him bouncing around. It's just for cheap nostalgia bc there's no reason it has to be Ian Holm and not any other kind of robot except that a new robot character would just be a new robot character and not an Incredible Homage to the Ridley Scott Classic

I do enjoy seeing the director's explanation, namely, that it's not any worse than actors putting on makeup to play historical figures; in fact, it's better since it's not someone pretending. And? No? We've had actors play real people for centuries there's no debate over that (I mean a lot of people hate biopic prosthetics, but not on moral grounds, only for being cheap awards bait). Ghoulishly resurrecting the deceased with computer replicas of their face is new and not really comparable to a guy putting on some makeup to pretend to be Winston Churchill. The director is a Practical Effects guy who tried to do everything possible to do practically practically, but he somehow talked himself into the idea that deepfakes were more practical and real than putting prosthetics on a guy to make him look like a guy. Did he insist on casting real xenomorphs, what's happening

It's not just that finding an actor who Looks Like Another Actor and a VA who Sounds Like That Actor is more ethical, it also looks and sounds better than the ghoulish deepfakes and AI voices

Like in Halloween Kills they just had a crew member who looked a lot like Donald Pleasence put on some extra prosthetics to look more like Donald Pleasence, and then had a guy who could do a Donald-Pleasence-in-Halloween voice doing the voice. They had people angrily accusing them of using CGI but it legit was just prosthetics and some look/soundalikes. There was a guy in the 80s/90s who built a whole career out of looking like Humphrey Bogart, we can find Guys Who Look Like Guys if we try

[stars-n-spice]

TBB X EPIC - Pt. 1

Nothin' like combining two fixations into one.

Kid you not, after the Ithaca Saga was released, I couldn't listen to anything else until like a day ago. And even then what I listened to was other songs from other sagas.

Anywho! I've had this AU idea in my head for a while now (like sometime in November) and now that the whole musical has been officially released, I had the motivation to put the idea onto digital paper.

So, without further ado, here is the first bit of:

The Bad Batch!

Hunter -> Odysseus Omega -> Telemachus Echo -> Athena Tech -> Tiresias Wrecker -> Polites Crosshair -> Eurylochus NOT PICTURED: Batcher -> Argos

I tried to make the characters match up as much as possible, but some are more fitting than others. Don't think about it too much.

Check out more here!

Pt. II - The Baddies Batch Pt. III - The Bad Guys All - Final Part

Individual doodles + lyrics under the cut!

Hunter as Odysseus for obvious reasons

He's the dad and the captain/sergeant of the group who'd do anything for his family

I'm sure we would've seen him go full Monster™️ just to get Omega back in S3 if the plot had called for it

His little headband can be a wreath :)

Sure he's not as cunning as og Odysseus but oh well

No idea who Astyanax would be though

Echo as Athena because I wasn't sure where to put him originally

For the longest time I thought about Fennec being Athena but then realized I didn't have Echo as any of the characters so I had him take her place instead

He helps out/trains Omega as Athena does for Telemachus - or should I say, she takes him under her wing?

Then I realized it somewhat fits because Echo is a strategist much like Athena

Wrecker as Polites because they're rays of sunshine who could do no wrong

It is hilarious to picture him singing Polites' part in the musical though because Steve's voice is so high and very much not what Wrecker's singing voice would sound like

That's literally it - I'm so sad that my favorite gets killed so early into the musical :(

Tech as Tiresias because he's all-knowing and not-so-good at seeing

Didn't know where else to place him

Fun fact! "No Longer You" is my favorite song from the entire musical

Crosshair as Eurylochus because of the falling out he has with Odysseus (i.e. Hunter) despite how close they are

Makes poor choices that they genuinely believe are justified

Value loyalty and transparency and when that's broken, so is the trust and relationship they have with the person who broke it

Like with Wrecker, it's funny picturing him singing Eurylochus' parts because Armando's voice is so deep

Omega as Telemachus for the obvious reason of being Hunter's kid so by default she gets the role

She's got Telemachus' passion and strength though - albeit if she's still naive and in need of a mentor

Batcher gets to be Argos too

[plaidos]

what's the science behind calling randos theyfabs? i get using it against transmysogynists, but using it to refer to people you don't know puzzles me. i think they might take offense in that

if a theyfab takes offence at being called a theyfab casually by a trans woman, then they are the problem, not her. y’all will look for any excuse to start a fight with trans women, even where you’d turn a blind eye for other minorities. very obvious double standard.

[peace-hunter]

tfone au where OP is created as the last of the primes but way after them, a sparkling born at what were thought to be the last days of the war against the quintessons, the beginning of a new generation of peace after eons of war. a child meant to be loved and raised knowing nothing of war nor sacrifice.

he's kept mostly out of the spotlight by his siblings, who don't wish to expose him to everyone's optics so young, and want to wait until the war is done and over to properly introduce him to their people.

except of course the primes are betrayed and murdered by sentinel, the war is lost and everyone who knows and cared for the truth is either banished or outright killed in order to suppress it.

and the high guard, the ones the primes trusted the most, the ones that were supposed to protect them, the ones who failed in their most important duty, have to make a choice. to take the last prime, their last hope, with them to the surface, a hostile environment where there's little to no supplies and where they'll be hunted down by both sentinel and the quintessons as the biggest threat to their regimen.

or hide him in plain sight. place him where sentinel won't think to look for him. one more sparkling among many. and hope it will be enough to keep him alive. pray to primus that he'll protect his last child long enough for them to come back for him when it's safer (even if most of them have already lost their faith on him when he allowed the rest of his children to be massacred like that)

they almost lose their resolve when they realize they will have to take the little one's cog away in order to make him blend in with the rest of the newborns (and oh do they burn with murderous intent when they see what sentinel has done to their people but it's not the time yet-) but in the end they decide an impaired little prime is better than a dead one.

and so in the chaos of thirteen dead primes and a sudden energon crisis, a little sparkling who very few mechs really knew about and even fewer had seen completely vanishes. and in the depths of iacon a mech in charge of a new batch of newborns scratches their helm in confusion as they realize they must have miscounted the first time.

optimus prime is quietly erased from any official records by sentinel, written off as dead when they find a sparkling's frame mangled beyond recognition after an attack on the base of those rebels that insist on being a thorn on his side. killing the sparkling hadn't been precisely in his plans, he probably could've found some use for it after all, but he's not particularly upset about it either.

and orion pax grows up with an ache on his spark that tells him he's missing something far more important than a t-cog and dreams of gentle and loving hands, cradling him against the frames of mechs he cannot recall the faces of.

[shadrell]

Pandora is my best tech girl >:D

I have already told in my blog her story and some facts, so here I think I can tell you about her character!!!

Pandora is a phlegmatic individual who believes that emotions are a weakness of the flesh. She is driven by her personal beliefs and the dogmas of the Adeptus Mechanicus, to which she is very committed. She believes that the lives of the children of the Omnissiah are the second most important resource, only behind Knowledge. Pandora values all those under her responsibility and strives to protect them and help them grow. However, she is merciless towards those who betray the faith.

She has a sense of humor. I guess. She says very funny things very seriously.

If she has an idea for a new research, she will talk about it for a long time. Even if no one asked. Even if the research is not so necessary from a practical point of view. And she also likes to tell everyone around about the successes of her subordinates - and this is perhaps the only manifestation of how proud she is, justified by the fact that her stories increase the social status of those she talks about in the eyes of others. (In general, she has a logical justification for any action that at first glance seems to be a manifestation of emotions.)

She hates politics just as much as her master did. That's why she followed in his footsteps and became an Explorator - so she could spend her resources on finding new knowledge, rather than intrigues of her home Forge World.

i like to imagine that all 40k tumblr admech ocs are bestfriends/coworkers who barely tolerate eachother.

Pls share your mechanicus blorbo so we can discern the relations

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

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[ashenberry]

[ID in ALT]

mgs doodle dump + 2 shitposts i shoould like. organize these somehow. i wont but i should

thank you @counterfeitubiquity for helping me ID and also letting me steal one of ur memes

[bidokja]

I thought you kin kdj?

anon i hope this is a joke cause if this is a genuine question it is the singlemost scathing read i have ever recieved in my life 👏 bravo

[illym]

Reading the Robo-Ky side story from Ky's perspective makes it into an absurdist comedy

IDs in alts.

[fingertipsmp3]

Also I feel like I have to say this but FUCK Toy Story 4. Awful movie, bad execution, poor excuse for a sequel.

[imminent-danger-came]

tbh you are so real for talking about the misogyny targeted to mei & other women in the lmk fandom. in general its like people only value mei as: a: the wingman to some basic mlm ship or b: macaque 2.0. its honestly crazy how so many male side characters overshadow her in the fanbase despite not even having a FRACTION of her screen time. idk chat i feel like the reason people dont care about mei but care about some random male side/background character is less because they're inherently more likeable but because some of you view women as inherently less likable. and everyone is always like "mei is so girlboss pussy cunt slay shes the only reason theyre still alive because she keeps them safe from their silly boy shennanigans shes their ultimate wingman shes so badass shes their lesbian best friend i totally paid attention to her when i watched this show LOL" and even ignoring the obvious misogyny here (ie. how people reduce her to being the male characters babysitter) its like... okay... i know mei is cool & badass already... could you name literally ANY other character trait she has. like people just value her as being "the braincell" who can get red son and mk together or something stupid and its like are we having fun still is this still fun. literally every day i go into the mei tag its like "look at mei shes red sons wifey and shes vaguely in the background of this drawing of red son and mk staring into each others eyes #trafficlighttrio am i right oh look shes macaques niece now this post is about ao lie why is it in the mei tag"

and thats literally JUST talking about mei and it doesnt even begin to cover the other female characters. chang'e constantly gets reduced to being red sons aunt/mom/big sister despite them like. not having any actual interactions in the show. lady bone demon constantly gets overshadowed by her minion who has like 2 seconds of screen time, or she gets made into a cartoonishly abusive madwoman who people call lady bitch demon. just in general people act like shes a horrible person for like. being a villain. liks yeah the trying to destroy everything was bad but also she was an antagonist and thats what antagonists do LOL. spider queen gets completely ignored. princess iron fan gets made into a cartoonishly abusive mother so that way red son can have a poor angsty backstory and some male character (usually nezha, macaque, swk) can take care of him.

(also theres just a great deal of ethnocentrism in the lmk fanbase? like im white so take what İ say here with a grain of salt but so many people will misconstrue aspects of chinese culture for their own personal hcs. people will say male characters are transfem or nonbinary while completely ignoring the time period/culture their from where thats the norm. like yippee youve implied that an east asian man is feminine/emasculine because he has long hair. how do you not see the negative connotations with this. people also turn pif (& lbd to an extent) into a dragon lady which obviously has negative racial connotations lol.)

anyway this is where my unhinged rambling ends have a good day have a good night İ had more to say here but İ reached the text limit. İ dont see a lot of people talk about the misogyny thats prevalent in the lmk fanbase so İm glad youre pointing it out lol.

Yeah, I totally hear you. The lmk fandom has plenty of issues with misogyny and, like you said, ethnocentrism. It's definitely something worth having a discussion about, along with these issues in fandom as a whole.

[zekoagun]

hm, i guess that newts weird reddit atheism in the book seems less like irvine is coming out of nowhere with it if it sits in comparison with hermanns faith in numbers, lol

[alphaketoglutaricacid]

Also i find her naive desperation (cant find the right words for it) to see her adventuring crew as sworn friends wholl go thru hell together even tho shes the newest addition soooo telling. Shes had trouble making friends her whole life she was really hoping! And even the ones who left are willing to go to hell for her n the crew so its not like its not true. Its just not like how it is in her mangas. I think theres a good chance she n namari become like closer after the end of the series.

[sammygender]

YALL ARE NOT SERIOUS PEOPLE no way i’m looking at the tumblr tag for spn 7x03 aka the sam centric flashback episode dealing with his childhood trauma and how he feels like he’s a freak and everyone is just posting about DEAN. dean and his stupid fucking pie. dean winchester used to be my guy! genuinely! s2-3 i truly thought i was a deangirl! But you people (plus this show atp lmfao) are making me hate him😭

[queer-pagan-witch]

One day I will learn, that just because the bottle is low, does not mean I need to finish off the bottle.

[incorrectprodigalsonquotes]

Ainsley: Look, I wasn't to know you hadn't told Dani... it never occured to me-

Malcolm: Just shut up! I don't know what's happened. Mother's made you feel bad. Or Gil. Or maybe it's just the same old Ainsley. Who wants to have her cake and hate me too.

Ainsley: I never meant to-

Malcolm: Yes, you did! Who do you think you're talking to? Our father? The Surgeon? I know you. I know you've become a nasty, jealous scheming bitch.

Ainsley: Now listen, you-

Malcolm: You're a bitch!

Malcolm: And not content with ruining your own life, you're determined to ruin mine!

Ainsley: I have not ruined my life! And if Dani’s put off by your actions then-

Malcolm: Don't demean yourself by trying to justify your venom.

Malcolm: Just go.