#its probably cold

[transylvanilla]

He's asking for $10 btw

[hinamie]

the new jjk cafe fits have been living in my head . no thoughts except yuuji in a letterman

[sofiaruelle]

❄️☃️The SDV Girlies in their winter garb!☃️❄️

One side how i interpreted their lil avatars and then the other side is just me playing dress up lmao.

“Bois when?” Dunno. 🤷🏽‍♀️ I will if anyone donates screenshots.

[foolsfrogg]

AAAAGGHGHDSHJHSDFHSJFHDHHJDSFHUJ

IT FINNALLY SNOWWWEDDDD!!!!

(some time later)

[95-6qrsk2rx9uq42069nnnnnjthewolf]

i think tim is high maintenance the way a boarder collie or austrialian shepherd is. like you have to make sure they're not only given space to expend energy but you have to specifically let them get the herding instinct out and challenge them intellectually or they start destroying ur home

[obsob]

there he is......the man of the house

[starrysharks]

winter assassin outfit

[randomwriteronline]

pohatus very important observations on who is available for body heat sharing via snuggling, cuddling et al

Lewa: yes, serial snuggler

Gali: yes, appreaciates it

Onua: yes, great hugs

Tahu: yes but you have to goad him into it, es. "will you man up and cuddle w me". the warmth is worth the annoyance

Kopaka: the flesh would be willing but the soul is so complicated about it. lay down back to back with him and pretend to sleep to make him slowly turn around and snuggle. WILL wake up early to destroy the evidence. the chill is worth the annoyance

Turaga Metru: only yield to 2-second-long cuddles if exhausted. if you pile all six on one another they will automatically snuggle together though

Toa Hagah: only with each other and still very professionally

Turaga Dume: no (the warmth is NOT worth it)

Takanuva: yes, serial snuggler no. 2

Jaller: yes but you have to sort of casually brute force him into it. will fall asleep five seconds into snuggle

Hahli: yes but a bit shy

Hewkii: yes, loves a hearty cuddle

Kongu: no (very formal)

Nuparu: no (very awkward)

Matoro: the soul appreciates the thought but the flesh needs space. if you tell him youre available for snuggles he will keep it in mind and come to you when hes in need. very pleasant chill

Hafu: yes, especially if youre warm

Tamaru: yes, curls up nicely on your chest

Taipu: yes, splays himself like a corpse

Macku: yes but prefers Hewkii. fair

Kapura: yes. hes a perfectly still hot water bottle. delightful.

Kopeke: no (leave him be)

Krahka: yes, surprisingly

Pewku: yes and its good for your mental health

Jaller's crab: no (rocket launcher)

[scificrows]

Okay, my brain refuses to think about anything other than Murderbot, so I looked at every use of the word "friend[s]" in TMBD and... created some pie charts. Normal human activities.

Some Thoughts™ I had while putting this together (under the cut):

In All Systems Red, Murderbot notes that the PresAux crew are all close friends (twice! and goes on to explain their internal relationships which I think is very cute). This is pretty much the only use of 'friends' in ASR, except for when Murderbot says that SecUnits can't be friends with each other.

It seems that this may be one of the first times Murderbot has ever really been around a group of friends before? Murderbot notes that this is not the norm for its contracts and admits that the fact that they are all friends and the way they interact with each other make it actually enjoy that contract (before!!!! the hostile attack, so it already enjoys this contract before they start seeing it as a person etc ghghhhh). [Inference: Friendship seems enjoyable.]

The first character that calls Murderbot its friend is ART in Artificial Condition. Murderbot immediately refutes this (and then goes on to call ART its friend to its clients for the rest of the book). [Inference: Maybe ART is Murderbot's friend. And maybe that is... agreeable]

Rogue Protocol has more than twice as many instances of the word 'friend' as any of the other novellas. Why? Miki. Friendship and its implications for non-humans are a central theme because Miki is friends with everyone. Murderbot initially scoffs at the notion that Miki and Miki's humans are friends. At the end of the book, after witnessing how desperately Don Abene tried to stop Miki from trying to save them, and her grief after its death, Murderbot has to admit that she had in fact been Miki's friend. [Inference: Humans can be friends with bots and can sincerely care about them]

In Exit Strategy, Murderbot tentatively uses the word "friends" for its humans for the first time (several times actually). It questions whether it can actually call them its friends or not and later realizes that it had been afraid what admitting that the humans are its friends would do to it. At the end of the book, Mensah tells Murderbot the PresAux crew are its friends, which is the first time a human has directly said that to it (at least on-page). [Inference: Humans can and want to be Murderbot's friends]

In Network Effect, Murderbot seems to be more habituated to the word 'friend', confidently calling ART and Ratthi its friends, like it is no longer just trying the concept on unsure if it fits. There are many instances in which other characters refer to MB as ART's friend or the other way around and Murderbot's humans refer to Murderbot as their friend several times. Generally, there seems to be less hesitancy, because yes, all of them are Murderbot's friends, why wouldn't they be. [Inference: SecUnits can have friends. This SecUnit has friends. They care about it a lot.]

Conclusion: The Murderbot Diaries tell the story of a construct that does not seem to consider the possibility of friendship for itself and is fine with that - until it accidentally starts caring a little too much and suddenly more and more people annex it as a friend (ew) to the point where it can no longer deny that this is happening and has to begrudgingly admit that yes, it has friends now and maybe that is actually not a bad thing.

[ghastlyaffairs]

for something as trivial and simple those feelings sure are hard to get rid of

also made a gif a version for fun + alt version with no tears under the cut

the gif is in very low resolution...this is a feature (i could make it bigger but that would require saving each frame individually and than glueing it all together. also i feel like low resolution suits it better. aesthetically and fits the mood)

[thegirloffans]

"Stop woobifying characters!!! He's a grown man and those people are MONSTERS-"

Shhhhhhhhhhuuuuuuuuuuttttttttttttttt.

Tf up.

You can find yourself too wrapped up in canon and not know how to have fun with your imagination over THERE ➡️

Over here, I'm currently thinking about Diabolicule antics where Louis, Lestat and Armand are trying to bundle Daniel up to go out hunting and he's looking at them like "wtf are yall doing???"

And they're like, "It's cold outside. You're still a newborn fledgling. You'll catch a cold."

And Daniel's like "??????????"

[pavlov-sdog]

Many posts lately have got me thinking about how Bell mentions struggling with remembering things at the beginning of the campaign and then basically never mentioning it again.

Each time they do they’re quickly brushed off, even when its not just something small or reasonable to forget. When talking to Park after fractured jaw, Park says that Bell supposedly spent hours decrypting the dossier, yet they have absolutely no memory of it. 

While we don’t see much of it, it wouldn’t be a shock that memory issues effect Bell a lot, we just don’t hear much about it. Imagine being so confused about losing so many hours worth of your memory and your colleagues and even most trusted friend just tell you to take a nap, maybe you need more coffee, oh don’t be so silly how could you possibly forget? Bell probably just gets to a point they avoid mentioning it knowing they’ll just be brushed off. They’re left to question their sanity and how much else they could’ve possibly forgotten with no support system. Also probably half the things Bell ‘forgot’ are things that never happened in the first place, the team is just lying to them, making it even harder.

[sashthesloth]

Veilguard is downloading... I'm sorry about who I'm going to be in (checks steam download queue) 2 hours.

[buwheal]

Hey Spamton! What’s the best spot in the town for a view? Place I am from has a sea nearby. Looks pretty nice, though with time you get used to it

[coochiekrab]

have u heard about twitter's tos update regarding ai training? just wanted to check in since u post a lot of ur art there

I think it would be naive to believe there are places on the internet where you can post things and they won’t be scraped by ai

[stardewvalleybut-i-draw]

Theory for the upcoming update that is 100% and 1000% wrong but funny to me

WHAT IF- Shane's winter outfit... Is ANOTHER jacket ON TOP of another jacket 🤔

but the other jacket is crappier than the one he's already wearing I mean think about it! "Joja's finest clothing" Is ANOTHER JACKET thanks for listening to your weekly TED talk.