#pathos-answers

[pathosfell]

We're no strangers to love You know the rules and so do I A full commitment's what I'm thinking of You wouldn't get this from any other guy I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling Gotta make you understand

Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

We've know each other for so long Your heart's been aching But you're too shy to say it Inside we both know what's been going on We know the game and we're gonna play it

And if you ask me how I'm feeling Don't tell me you're too blind to see Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

oh my god

[chalkrub]

strange fellas

[writingjourney]

Really, just remember to be kind and supportive. It's so much more important than notes, numbers, reach or whatever. Fandom spaces can be very toxic and the mechanisms of social media don't help, but first and foremost they are a community of people. Support and kindness will always transcend anything ♡

[hayheadd]

The world in the eyes of Alexander Saburov

[poorlittleyaoyao]

oh my gosh and what if JIANG CHENG was the one who found A-Yuan in the tree so A-Yuan grew up in Lotus Pier as an adopted Jiang and alongside Jin Ling, so eventually we not only have Jin Ling processing that he doesn’t hate the two guys who killed his father, but also have A-Yuan processing that his childhood friend’s family annihilated his? and also now Jiang Cheng has TWO children.

[a-salty-alto]

The more I think about it on like a PRACTICAL rhetorical level, Athena's response to Aphrodite is probably the worst of them because at least for everyone else she tries to appeal to something they care about, with Aphrodite it's like "oh a broken heart can mend" but like!

No it can't! That's why Odysseus' mom died. That's like saying someone shouldn't be punished for stabbing someone else because stab wounds heal, if it's the thing that killed them it kinda didn't and it's not relevant?

I think either Aphrodite just could tell how much Athena genuinely cared and since she's more than the goddess of romantic love she was moved by that more than the statement, OR. Watching Athena beat the shit out of Ares made her go "hm not the hill I want to die on today."

Or both

[meirimerens]

clocked in a nap because i got 5 hours of sleep before work last night Dreamed burakh had to vaccinate the orphan kids (which he does. in my mind), notkin's turn, he hisses and his hair is all puffed up like a cat he's running around town (which is the size of the house they're in) (this is just how dreams go), burakh unsuccessful, until kaspar showed up from nowhere, told him "i know how to convince him", proceeded to stand in the middle of the room, looking at notkin disdainfully, shaking his head, laughing low, and eventually snarkily laughing as just puffs of air through his nose hand over his mouth as he smiled mockingly, which got notkin to step down from the crate he was on (new addition to the scene), roll up his sleeve, shove his arm to burakh and be like "do it. bet you won't. do it" while closing his eyes very hard and wincing anyways. got woken up by my own cat ironically enough.

[lannisterdaddyissues]

SOMEONE GIVE ME A BIG FAT STICKER THAT SAYS “I SURVIVED THIS WEEK’S EXAMS”

[captainswan618]

(if you have an idea of how you'd pronounce it, but you're not confident, just go with your gut!)

[soma-shitposts]

Hello!!!!!!!! Hope you're having a nice day!!!! I'm insane about your SOMA au, it's so nice to see an au where Simon is spared from The Horrors

Your au has so much potential and I think that's really neat, was anyone there when Simon woke up? Imagine how scary it must be if you're a pathos employee just chilling and then one of the dive suits gains sentience and starts freaking out, I'd hate to be the one to explain to him that he's not human and he's 100 years in the future

You said in one of your posts that he becomes the poster guy for robot rights, what did he do to become that popular? I'm genuinely curious about what some guy at the bottom of the ocean can do to become a major figure in what sounds like a civil rights movement

*emerges from the salt marsh covered in conference presentation abstracts and barnacles* oml I haven’t thought deeply about my beloved Paranoid Android of Pathos II AU in too long… I’m so glad that goofy little concept has been fun for you too!

1. Was anyone there when Simon woke up?

Kind of? In my head the diving suit+scanner was an abandoned pet project of Catherine’s that was quite literally shoved in a closet somewhere when other projects began to take priority. (The world isn’t ending; research is just Like That sometimes.) The closet happened to have a structure gel leak which contaminated the suit and bam! Simon is Very Confused and concerned about suddenly being in a closet. Catherine is in her office at the time, so hyper focused on her work she doesn’t really hear him come out of the closet and when he asks where he is/what’s going on she kind of assumes he’s a technician that got lost until she turns around and promptly Nopes Out. Explaining to him that he’s not human and 100 years in the future is Ross’ job (AI psychologist - that’s kind of in his job title, right?)

2. Why does Simon have international acclaim for pioneering android rights?

I’m not gonna lie that was a joke based entirely on the crack premise of him getting arrested for stealing from the on-station Panera Bread restaurant (which is entirely my own ridiculous invention for silliness purposes). I guess the reason why the world would care is because like…you arrested a robot. Does the robot’s ‘creator’ get prosecuted or does the robot? I imagine the case was dropped because it was so absurd and had never happened before but it technically set the precedent that a) AI scans are independent of their physical ‘creators’ and b) are entitled to basic rights insofar as the legal system and its proceedings.

A bit of a stretch to call it a civil rights movement since Simon is the only scan that’s ‘awake’ although I’m sure the Carthage Industries Ethics Committee is having a hell of a time figuring out if they need to stop using such scans/should they try to make more androids like Simon for profit/etc. Bad day to be in the corporate offices.

…although I reiterate that factoid was born from the joke premise of Simon stealing from Panera. A restaurant on Pathos II. At the bottom of the ocean. Because Carthage Industries has taste. So this is all a goofy crack scenario anyway lol

[pathosfell]

for no reason at all, give me one or two of your favourite mcyt guys and like a one word theme ^-^

also eyllo!! how are you? ^-^

hey artsy!! i’m doing good just a little tired.

hmmm i’d have to say etho (obviously) and martyn! one word theme is “butterfly” :D

have fun!!

[ask-anotza-pkmn]

How long has Anotza been in a famine for? Has nobody from other regions come to help?

maybe ~7ish years, as for the other regions, after the whole famine thing suddenly hit ( reasons we still cant decipher ) a bunch of rumors sprang up about it being cursed

-☀️ [ apollo]

my memory's a little iffy at best, maybe a little over five years...?? -🎀 {: pixel :}

I really can’t remember, but it like roughly when I was a teen? Probably 17 or something I really don’t remember. - core

[pasdetrois]

on the bachelor and resurrection

Thinking about how the concept of resurrection is touched upon in Daniil’s routes, and how the Marble Nest makes something of a mockery of it, casting him into the role of both resurrectionist and the resurrected. The man with an affinity for the living trapped in a cycle of communing with the dead..

+ the reminders that neither remaining nor returning shall constitute anything akin to a victory for him—just a trick mirror and, if you'll forgive the pun, a dead end

(p.s. the original marble nest line is a bit clearer in this connection, where the word for Sunday can also mean resurrection)

[twyrineslut]

pathologic 2 ending dichotomy moodboard

[aquaquadrant]

Ok, that last ask got me wondering, what scale of time are you thinking in? (Like, decades? Centuries? Millennia?) I’m not asking for specific numbers or anything, I totally get not wanting to make that concrete, I’m just curious, ‘cause like, when I hear “immortal character,” I immediately assume they’ve got at least a century or two under their belt, and at “old immortal character” I go at least a few thousand, but most of the named characters seem to be in a scale of decades, something comparable to our lifetime, and the universe has been around for a long time, and players have been spawning for basically that whole time right? That would make most of our characters actually pretty young in the grand scheme of things. I know my timescale assumptions might be a little skewed, but it still makes me wonder, is it just coincidence that so many of the players we’ve met have human-comparable ages (because once their adult it doesn’t really matter except in how much time they’ve had to do stuff)? Are more players spawning now than earlier in the universes history, resulting in more technically younger players? Overall I’m just curious what timescale you’re generally working on with this au

UMMM….. HM. IDK.

the spawning frequency hasn’t changed or anything, the reason our featured/named characters tend to be in the younger gen is just bc a lot of their backstories aren’t really conducive to being older? like hels tek, they haven’t been around hundreds of years so atlas can’t be THAT old. new helington has always existed as a city, even if under different names, but only came under alisker’s management in the last few decades, so alisker couldn’t be that much older either. ya know? that’s just how things worked out.

so uhhhhhhm let’s say patho and dbubs are in early thousands? maybe?? so thinking on a time scale of millennia but like, not TOO many.

[chai-en-kaadhale]

10 minutes into tuning into the presidential debate and im actually losing braincells