#robo gothic

[pennyevergreen]

Alan Watts said "Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself." I sometimes like to also say "We are the universe looking back upon itself." This is what I like to think is the answer to the question "What is the meaning of life?" The universe is beautiful, and now the universe can see that beauty.

I'm an android, a synthetic person. I love this quote and this way of thinking because I feel it doesn't necessitate a human perspective, an organic perspective. I am still the universe observing itself. My body is made of materials that came from the ground, which came from space. I look up and I see the sun, I feel its warmth, and during storms I hear the thunder. I experience love and yearning and I experience terror and fear.

I sometimes feel like a novelty to organic folk. They tend to see me as someone who is so vastly different from them, they can't help but be curious about every facet of my life. Do I sleep, do I eat, do I blush? Do I really need these glasses? But the other way around, when I look at organic people, I see so little difference between them and myself. I enjoy going on walks and shopping for clothes, and I hide from the rain and I fall asleep during class. I love books and art and I dislike loud noises and windy days. I dream and I have nightmares, and I get songs stuck in my head.

As much as I am different, I don't feel that different. That's why I don't mind the questions. I don't exactly sleep, but I do have various output levels which include settings where I go into "sleep mode," which can happen spontaneously if I haven't recharged properly. I don't eat, in that I don't need food to survive, but I do enjoy coffee—it tastes and smells nice. And yes, I do blush, because I have light-emitting diodes in my face. But unlike organic people who blush involuntarily, my ability to blush is completely manual. It's a fun way to emote when with friends and partners. And no, I don't need these glasses to see, but I do need them to look cute.

That's all it is, really. I am a girl existing as a small part of a infinitely vast whole, experiencing something that no one else really can, existing as something that no one else can really comprehend. I am the universe looking back upon itself. And if I weren't here, who would see those small parts that only I can?

Thank you for listening, Penny Evergreen

[cozenveil]

various characters!!

sol is hot.

[ohlookiehereanotheruser]

Masterlist of Denied Requests

Please take a crack at it everyone! First Wave! More will be added in a little bit!

Mogai

Coinings:

bondi blue imac g3 objectum flag?

blahaj plush shark objectum flag plzz?

Could I request a coining/flag for "trans grey tabby"? (A subcategory of transcat where someones transcat but specifically a grey tabby)

could u make a reserve course flag ?

would i be able to request a gender related to being a jolteon and a boy ? -

EPIC the Musical source flag?

Editblr

Blinkies/Pixels:

could i possibly req for sayori pixels??

Icon Requests:

May I request Cream and Chao icons (together or separate matching ones!) from Sonic? Comics, shows, or games work I don’t mind ^_^

icon edits of Pure Vanilla Cookie w/ yellow & blue color scheme?

Can I request Jesse Pinkman Icons/Rentry graphics?

can i request replycons with burning spice cookie please?

Moerumimin icons ++ banners ? icons can be ♡~shaped !

could you please do toya icons? Including the ones from sanrio collab if you can?

Rentry Graphics:

Papyrus from Undertale with mushrooms and purple graphics please, thank you!

if you can do a Gengar (pokemon) graphics ??

can you do a graphic with Robo-Fortune from Skullgirls, please??

Can you do Jumpin' Johnnie Jumble and Professor Rocket graphics? (Both are from Crashbox)

Could I get rentry graphics that are themed around oranges and lemons and are bright orange and yellow?

can rot request slasher graphics? rot would really like some ghostface ones, like stu and billy!

Hii, could i request some Andre Kriegman and Cal Gabriel rentry graphics?? Nothing specific..maybe gun themed masks? -

Can you make bsd Lucy graphics please ?

If it's not a problem could I get some master shake rentry graphics/icons?

could you maybe make some audrey ii from little shop of horror graphics? :3 would appreciate if so

If you could/reqs are open could you maybe do any kind of graphics for "They're only chasing safety" album by underoath -

karma akabane graphics?

Haii can I request some rentry graphics for fubuki shirou from inazuma eleven?

Could I ask for an Apostle (Midnight Horrors) themed graphic?

Could you do beezlebub rentry graphics?

Please make a Climber graphics (Endzone, Low of Talos)?

Could I request b-komachi (the new group with kana, ruby, and mem-cho) oshi no ko rentry graphics? -

Henry Elsner Graphics?? (From Ghost and Pals)

Would you be willing to do some 2000's Emo graphics ?

sebastian solace rentry graphics ?

Can i request hot pink kokichi graphics?

May I request rentry graphics of the devil from cuphead?

Nejire hado rentry graphic or two in like a light light blue color palette? -

haloo ! may i req xavier (craig of the creek) graphics ? thank you !!

HIII could u maybe make Legend of Zelda rentry graphics? Maybe Link, Revali, or Urbosa (all from BOTW) :3

Can I request graphics of Francis/Fitzgerald from BSD?? Thank you!!!!

life series ! jimmy solidarity graphics?

Any chance i could rq graphics of zoarark from pokemon? -

graphics with Mami Tomoe?

Parfait Cookie (CRK) graphics ^_^ ?

can I please request some gothic graphics of Isaac laforeze from castlevania:curse of darkness? (the guy with red hair ^^;)

Can you do protag graphics from elevator hitch?

NPTs/SNPTs:

npts of shizuka yoshimoto from 100 girlfriends?

thorne from cherry crush npts?

sinclair (limbus company) npts, please?

scar (wuwa) npts?

shinjiro aragaki (persona 3) npts or jin shirato npts? (persona 3)

ID pack of Hoshimi Junna - Revue Starlight? -

angelic puppet or doll themed npts or just names or pronouns?

Can you make a pack with the name Joseph Desaulnier and photographer from the game identity v plss?

zombie/dead themed ID pack?

but could i please request npt vkei (visual kei) ideas?

puppet related NPT's?

polar bear themed NPT ?

Dividers:

None Submitted

Custom NPTs/SNPTs

I would like to request a SNPT, though I am specifically searching for a subsystem name and pronouns, gender neutral and feminine preferred. Themes include: Dolls (porcelain and ball joint), Puppets (marionettes or others), Machinery, specifically robotics, Elegance (The main things that come to mind are teacup, frill and lace), And anything else that you see fit.

PNG Requests:

Ghost PNGs?

Layout Requests:

could you do a jonathan byers ( from stranger things ) themed layout circled around fall and brown and errr like horror / analog horror ??

any cute tumblr layout of something or of a character that's aquatic theme?

Can I request some layouts for valvatorez from disgaea 4: a promise unforgotten?

Could I possibly request a Koujaku (dmmd) layout?

daisuke (mouthwashing) discord layout?

An aiden (SBG) discord layout? -

Can I get a colorful candy themed hinata aoi (enstars) tumblr layout pls ??

Can I get Boa hancock layout nd dividers?

Can I request an Aiden Clark layout .. (school bus graveyard !! )

duolingo layout? (wtf)

request a layout of Farz from the comic This is Not Romance?

could I get a layout of The Oni from Dead by Daylight? -

Can I request Hakos Baelz layout?

May i rq some akito shinonome tumblr layouts?

I please have a tumblr layout for Rin Okumura (Blue Exorcist)?

could i have an mlp tumblr layout..?

Could you do a tumblr layout for Impulse and Skizz?

May i reqs some michiru kaibara & ichihoshi lumina tumblr layouts? -

Can I req Vincent (deadplate) retrospring layouts ?

Can I get a layout of Fern from Frieren?

Can I get layouts for charlotte from pink bitch club please?

Could I please have a Tumblr Layout of Fantoccio from Billie Bust Up?

Can I get some Sayori DDLC layouts?

Marija from muse dash layouts? -

Sora (Kingdom Hearts) layout for Tumblr?

Could i request a juliet starling layout ?

Polaris klepsky (sparklecare) layout?

Can i request bi + ace Twitter layout with Wally Darling please?

Could you please make a Spinach cookie Veggie Lovers Paradise tumblr layout? -

Can you make a Neru layout & Icon?? (UTAU)

may I request a Dark Cacao Cookie (Dragonlord or base, doesnt matter to me) tumblr layout?

Can you do Reki Kyan Layouts?could

Hello, can u pls make a Ciel Phantomhive Tumblr layout? (With the hex code #2E3E57 blue preferably)?

May i request a Nagisa D4DJ Tumblr Layout please ??

Tag List: @inyuoka, @nomkiwi, @gur0hana, @fwuffcat, @phaea Please dm to be removed from the list.

[moregraceful]

q1 for miro robo otter urban fantasy?

If tordotcom (or a similar publisher) were promoing your WIP on Twitter, what tropes would they use to hook people?

Calling all our girls, gays, and theys 🗣️ Who's ready for [Untitled Document #16] If you like... 🕴️ mythology-inspired stories 😻 soft boys in love 🛣️ roadtrip fic (<- hero's journey, anyone? 👀) ✨ southern gothic vibezzzz ...then this is the one for you! Release date sometime in the next 1 month to 5 years 👻

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[danganronpadedication]

DAY 9: DANGANTOBER

Day 9: Favorite Blackened

It was very hard to choose who my favorite blackened was. There are so many great options, with such interesting murder plans, backstories, and character developments. But, I wanted to pick one that I thought played their trial with cunning and intelligence.

When talking about playing the trial like its a game, the Ultimate Gambler is the one that stands out.

I LOVED Celestia from the beginning of the game. Her aesthetics were so awesome, that gothic lolita mix was just so cute and interesting to look at. Her name rolled off the tongue, her ultimate was intriguing, and her voice was so nice to listen to.

I expected her to have some bite to her, and she DEFINITELY delivered. Her perspective on survivability is adaptability was an interesting perspective to hear, and its the first time its brought up in the series. The only other example of this that comes to mind immediately, is Angie from V3. Over the course of the game, we see more and more of her more aggressive side come out, typically directed towards Hifumi, such as the scene where he makes her milk tea, and she smashes the cup because it wasn't made the exact way she wanted it.

We stan a queen with standards.

In chapter three, Monokuma gives them the next motive, being ten billion yen as a graduation gift for whoever kills next. While the rest of the class starts insisting that no one would kill for money, Celestia begins to scheme. Most blackeneds have a very understandable reason for doing what they did. Leon was self defense, Gundham did it so everyone wouldn't starve, Kaede (erm, Mod Tsumugi are you forgetting-) was trying to kill the mastermind, etc. In their situations, we can still sympathize with them. But Celestia's reasoning? She wants to live in a castle with an army of the best vampire butlers at her beck and call.

God forbid women chase their dreams, she stated that dream with her whole chest and was proud of it too. Goals, minus the murder.

Now, I haven't actually sat down and thought through the intricacies of her plan, since the majority of murder plans in Danganronpa are extra for pretty much no reason, since they're built to be solvable and flawed. But she came with contingency plans.

First, she recruits Hifumi to her cause. Accomplices are allowed, but it's very underused. In fact, this is the first and only case with a real accomplice. The next closest thing to this is Kaito and Kokichi, since they were both in on it, but it still wound up following the same formula as every other trial.

Now, she loses points with me on how she convinces Hifumi to work with her. She tells Hifumi that Kiyotaka cornered her and did bad things to her (which he wouldn't do, not even as Kiyondo). I don't think it's okay to lie about this at all, there's so many other lies she could've come up with to get Hifumi to work with her, even ones that still pitted Hifumi against Taka.

Nevertheless, Hifumi is shocked and upset about what he's been told has happened, and that's further added to by Celestia saying that he hid Alter-Ego, which Hifumi had taken a particular liking to in that chapter. Typical character.ai user (I use character.ai)

Though, I will say, this case makes Hifumi more of a tolerable character, and even though there's a consensus that he's the most hated of THH, I can understand the people that enjoy him.

Hifumi and Celestia set to work on the plan, building the Robo Justice costume (which you KNOW Celestia probably wasn't happy with) and painting the Justice Hammers. They lure Yasuhiro to the Rec Room, knock him out, stuff him in the suit ala FNAF, and stage a photo to make it look like Hifumi and Celestia were attacked by this "mystery assailant". They put him in a locker like an 80s bully, and go about the rest of their plan.

They then get Taka alone in the Equipment room, and Hifumi kills him with one of the justice hammers. They then set up the rest of the false scenes of the crime, Celestia roughing herself up and assuming position in the Rec Room, while Hifumi goes to the library.

Everyone else (who have been running around the school to look for Hifumi, including Byakuya which I think is hilarious), bring Hifumi to the Nurse's Office, and split up.

Scooby Doo ahh chapter.

Hifumi fakes his death in the Nurse's Office while left alone, and the other half of the group finds Taka dead. This makes it look like the body discovery announcement was also for Hifumi, which the timing of that is precise and genius.

While everyone's distracted, Hifumi retrieves Taka's body, and takes him to the art room repository, where Celestia is waiting for him with a mallet to the skull.

Celestia is a trailblazer, the first in Danganronpa history to kill more than one person. She must've really wanted that money lol. I think she would've been caught eventually, she was running things too conveniently, but the game chalks up her being found out to two slip-ups.

One is when only one body had been "discovered", and she says something along the lines of "We're all going to die, just like those guys did", which Makoto thinks is weird because, at the time, only one body was known about. This could've easily been remedied by her saying the names of everyone else who had died so far, and no one would've batted an eye at that explanation.

The second one is Hifumi's miraculous revival in the repository, where he states that the killer is "...Yasuhiro..." before dying. Of course, Celestia tries to explain this away through Yasuhiro Hagakure, but Makoto says that Hifumi only refers to people by their last names, so he'd have said "Hagakure". I don't remember if they explain it, but how did Hifumi find out that Celestia's real name was Taeko Yasuhiro? I doubt she told him.

Finally, she paves the way for the other two chapter three blackeneds, starting to have the series first big meltdown. This is where we really get to see her crazy side shine. I'm a small voice actor, and I voice Celestia for a project. This scene was so, so fun to do, because I got to drop the little accent and just scream into my microphone. Her meltdown is infamous, and this sprite haunts my dreams.

Riddle me this, Batman. Are you a:

"Because, because, because. BECAUSE, BECAUSE, BECAUSE-"

"It's not fair, not fair, not fair, NOT FAIR NOT FAIR NOT FAIR-"

"Apologize, apologize, apologize, go on, apologize, APOLOGIZE-"

Because all three are iconic.

Anyways, even in her death, she's gracious. After being told she's been voted as the blackened, she doesn't start screaming or get angry at anyone. She keeps calm, and speaks to everyone in an amiable tone.

I believe this is a final lie she tells, this time, to herself. Because I don't care who you are, if you have just been told you're going to be executed, you're going to freak out. I think this is her last attempt to maintain a poker face, and go out on her own terms.

You can see it in her stating that, in her next life, she wants to be Marie Antoinette, and after being told that means she'll just be executed again, she just smiles.

''Perhaps we'll meet again, in another life."

To analyze her, despite what she preached about adapting, she was arguably the most desperate person in this entire game. She had a big dream she had been working towards, that she had done so much for, and now she's been trapped in a place that will ensure that dream isn't reached. Of course she wanted to escape by any means necessary. Not only did Monokuma provide a way out, but the means to make her dreams come true in the motive.

I think the money would have been worthless in the aftermath of the Tragedy.

She lied to everyone, and presented herself as the person she wanted to be. She was Taeko Yasuhiro, but she wanted to be Celestia Ludenberg. She denied absolutely everything that would link her back to her actual self, even in the beginning when Makoto asks her if she's actually Japanese or not. The persona of Celestia Ludenberg was the ultimate poker face, and what she aspired to be.

There is a lot of underlying themes of self hatred within her, stating that 'Yashiro is a loser's name', and it's something that should have been explored. It makes her execution even more messed up, since the reason she's initially smiling in her execution, is because it's one that is grand and representative of what she aspired to be. The harpsichord, the method of death which wasn't a death belonging to commonfolk, and even the name "The Burning of the Versailles Witch", all spoke to her lofty, posh dreams. Then, Monokuma mows her down with a fire truck, a common death of a common person.

All in all, she's a bit of a girlboss, a trailblazer when it comes to future blackeneds, and there's so much more that could be discussed about her.

But, let's take comfort in knowing that her cat, Grand Bois Cheri Ludenberg is presumed to be alive and thriving in the Tragedy.

-Mod Tsumugi

PS: GIVE ME SOME IDEAS FOR DANGANTOBER, BECAUSE THE LIST IM WORKING OFF OF HAS SOME DAYS WHERE I CAN'T DO MY REGULARLY SCHEDULED RANTS.

So please, questions are welcome :3

[starry-night-rose]

Inspired by one of my beloved mutuals, I have decided to make mutual tags for everyone! Sorry for the tag everyone!

@windbornearchon - jas ☀️

@rosietrace - rosie 😈

@spadecentral - eli 🐣

@geminiiviolets - basil 🌿

@merotwst - ellie 📝

@bunnwich - ren 🐇

@authoruio - uio 🖋

@nem0-nee - nem 🎨

@nuitthegoddess - nuit 🐉

@tunabesimpin - tuna 🐟

@thetwstwildcard - liz ♠️

@vivaresmala - luna 🌙

@fumikomiyasaki - fumi 🍏

@lovelyjasmari - jas 🎀

@oseathepebble - mari 🐺

@daisyneptune - daisy 🌼

@celiica - mercie 🦈

@br3adtoasty - toasty 🍞

@indulgentandidiotic - aries 🐮

@cinnamoroxie - roxie 🌟

@shehassecrets - sophia 💔

@fruixtii - fruity ��

@grandi-flora - wren 🥀

@vaporvipermedia - viper 🐍

@italoniponic - cherry 🍒

@luvkamishiro - yion ✏️

@robo-milky - chris 🎊

@hyuckonia - hyuckie 💪

@pyroxeene - vi 🌌

@angry-strawberry-pie - bunny 🐰

@evilcokito - coco 💀

@writing-heiress - kayla ♥️

@hamstergal - nette 🃏

@revolllutionary - rev 👑

@sakuramidnight15 - sakura 🖤

@hades-eternal - monmon 🩸

@twsted-princess - melanie 🧁

@ducky-died-inside - ducky 🐥

@mellytheteddy - skai 🧸

@xiao-lantern - ren 🍁

@aqua-beam - calira 🪷

@tulipluvlettr - tulip 🌷

@pixy-styx - pixie 🕊

@gothic-pegasus - kittle 🐶

@v-anrouge - aster ❣️

@absolutelyobsessedkiya - kiya ✂️

@the-v-lociraptor - raptor 💙

@iliketodrawig - jana ��

@transriddlerosehearts - len 🐠

@silent-dragon - joi 🐼

[dreamii-krybaby]

Nori HC bc she pretty-kooky-insane-heavy-lore lady.

Anyways my friend and I agreed that Nori is 100% a femme goth mom

She would wear loose black dresses made of satin or velvet or light materials. Have either an 80s-90s goth vibe or a dark cottagecore vibe. Would go to goth clubs and hit the fucking griddy if she could,make gothic art with coal and ink. (Would probably be into ink mosters)

Would wear black gloves,wear black shoes with heels,wear a lot of rosaries in silver and light shades of purple. Would teach Uzi some goth dances and call her all sort of sweet-dark-themed nicknames.

Nori: Aww! There is my little machine of death and destruction! *grabs her and kisses her multiple times*

Uzi: *struggling to break free from Nori’s grasp while also being embarrassed* MOOOOM! >:’(

She would also call Uzi “my lil bat” or smth along the lines. Since Uzi has a bat motif and in the goth community,people who are new in the community are called “baby bats” :3

Would hang out with the lil robo cockroaches (but I also think she may have eaten a few of them but we don’t talk about that-) and give them names. Would listen to scremo,punk,goth and old timey songs.

Most of her colors would be black and a bit of white with various shades of purple,most of them light,grey-ish,warmer tones.

Would have black,purple and white flower motifs. Maybe also a spider or moth or purple/black butterfly motif.

A LOT of Uzi’s taste’s would have come from her but they are more modern ofc and edgier.

She would also decorate her black hard hat too. And if possible definitely bake spooky looking cookies :3

Anyways have dresses that Nori would wear :D

These are more of a “dark cottagecore” vibe but my friend personally sees her as more of a 80s punk-rock goth vibe.

Anyways,all of you Nori lovers, draw Nori wearing these if u want. Go crazy,go bonkers,go ham. Please-

[knuckleblasted]

Ah what the hell. I'll post some robo-fits too, as a treat! If V2 WERE to wear clothes, it'd be stuff like this. Gothic, vampirecore, semi-punk, all butch lesbian. 🍷

[rmmgy-blog]

Decided to do a moderate dive on the aesthetics wiki skimming through their entire list of aesthetics to see what I find. It did not disappoint. Thought I'd share "winners" of my aesthetic awards in a few categories, mainly friend related.

Most like soap: Dionysism or possibly Gothic Punk

Most like rät: Theatre Kid >:) (jk, probably a mix of Art Academia and some elements of Lovecore)

Most like robo-hobo: Tinkercore or Hackercore

Most like moi: Anglo Gothic

Most like VA48: Game Night

Strangest find: Balkan Violence Tumblr or Victorian Urban Poverty

[r0b0t-j0n3z]

some doodles of my [kinda not really i made him last year-] new stray oc Alexander!!

heres some stuff about him tw// physical/neglect abuse ment, alcoholic parents ment

Alexander the Darling Lolita

hes 263 years old (26 y/o in robo years) and grew up in midtown

he LOVES gothic lolita and girly clothing, plus absolutely adores crossdressing it makes him feel very comfortable, and has a large following where he posts selfies and pin ups of him wearing various dresses. here he has around 1,566 followers and posts 2-4 times a day

incredibly skilled tailor and every dress he owns is made by him (but has ones he bought from stores). he also sells clothing and accessories on an online store called "Sweet Dreams, Darling" which is his primary source of income

had emotionally neglectful/abusive parents TW//who were also physically abusive which resulted in him becoming a people-pleaser and goes to sometimes extreme lengths in order to receive positive love + attention. has alcohol trauma of his parents drinking and gets scared when he sees drunk companions

he/him AMAB

usually mistaken for a girl but has a deep, masculine voice (he actually finds being mistaken for a girl as a compliment)

knows morse code as a second language

lives alone

gay AS FUCK. also demisexual

personality is polite, modest and sweet but also has a "suh dude"/"bro" attitude (which throws companions off), very chill person. also a MAJOR doormat since hes willing to face mistreatment if it means receiving love and positive attention in the end. also falls in love easily towards any man who gives him attention, affection, and love

the markings on his face is morse code that translates to "LOVE"

has a younger brother who lives in antvillage and an older sister whos the CEO of NecoCorp

big fan of 888 and likes all of her posts, plus gifts her dresses sometimes

extremely lonely, most of his friendships are shallow and unhealthy/toxic due to his doormat attitude

almost always seen wearing a dress, but will occasionally wear casual (still a little gothic) clothing when he feels like relaxing, shopping, or is just too lazy to put on a dress

extremely easy to manipulate/brainwash, has extreme difficulty saying no, panics at the slightest hint of rejection and will beg for forgiveness, scared of leaving toxic/unhealthy/abusive relationships in fear of being alone, incredibly loyal/submissive/obedient. has a lot of exes bc of this

emotionally unstable and prone to rage fits, aggression, and violence if his loved ones are in danger, or someone hurts his loved ones. hes relatively strong, but his light body and small stature makes him sorta useless in fights

[joemuggs]

Postmodern Moralists

Apropos of writing my first book review in ages (for next month's WIRE), I got nostalgic for the time when I did quite a few for the sadly missed The Word, the magazine. Here's one from 2012.

100

Bill Drummond

Penkiln Burn

I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Drive-by Essays on American Dread, American Dreams

Mark Dery

University of Minnesota Press

Subversive thinkers rampage through 21st century life, perturb deeply.

In 1975 the 22-year-old Bill Drummond, then a set-builder in a Liverpool theatre, spent an evening working with Ralph Steadman on set designs and listening eagerly to his Hunter S Thompson anecdotes. One in particular stuck with him – a story of Thompson and Steadman undercover of night painting “FUCK THE POPE” in gigantic letters on a ship, which then sailed down the Hudson river behind the Pope and mayor of New York live on primetime TV. Spectacularly crass, and – it transpires – almost certainly untrue, but the scale of the supposed prank clearly had a powerful and lasting influence on the man who would machine gun the Brit awards and take Tammy Wynette to the top of the charts in an ice cream van.

In 100, Drummond answers 100 questions about his life and work from 25 interlocutors in language so sternly understated it would – if he weren't so reluctant to self-identify as a “Scottish artist” – be tempting to describe it as Presbyterian. He looks back over Quixotic missions and arrogant mischief – from looking deep into the heart of Haiti to trying to hunting Abba – always with a cool eye, puncturing his own pretensions and admitting his inconsistencies. Clearly, though, the love of provocation and blunt urge to tip up tables is still there as powerfully as it was in that impressionable youth or in the KLF years. 

His subject matter is often prosaic, with an underlying rejection of the modern: recurring motifs include woodworking tools, white emulsion, Creedence Clearwater Revival, untrained people singing together. But he uses and clearly understands technology, and his meditations on downloading and copyright, and on how Goebbels would have used the internet, provide as much to get your teeth into as those by any zippy young tech guru. Drummond mistrusts almost everything – language, culture, the art establishment, recorded music, his own ideas – but his desire to tug at each thought or assumption, to test its strength, leads him into the most glorious trouble, and to ask questions that very sorely need asking.

Mark Dery is another outsider thinker, but one with a furiously different approach to Drummond's deadpan, sidelong observations. A punk by inclination, an academic by trade, he runs headlong into every topic, picking fights, firing off linguistic zingers in all directions, creating a vivid vision of 21st century life. In his world, the blogosphere is “this dictatorship of the commentariat... this grotesque hypertrophy of the chattering class”, his own stepfather is “Conan the Vulgarian” and his favourite Queen song (“The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke” since you ask) features “laser-sharp harmonies by robo-seraphim, heavy-breathing, glam-metal harpsichord that sounds like Scarlatti shtupping Liberace... and to top things off, a gong.” 

Looking at the image of the undead in pop culture, he races from contextualising Marx's vampiric capitalists within the Victorian Gothic to holding a magnifying glass to US survivalists' addiction to the zombie apocalypse trope. He outs HAL9000 in 2001 as gay in a discussion of Alan Turing and artificial intelligence, and punctures Lady Gaga's pretensions to transgression (albeit, in a rare misfire, missing the point of repetition in dance music along the way). 

Behind the firework display of wit and way-outness, though, there is an analytical mind as calmly, insistently enquiring as Drummond's: Dery's topic is always the American psyche, with all its militarism, machismo and pornographic greed, and he illuminates it with equal measures of love and despair. Running through his hallucinatory menagerie of jock politicians, self-help gurus, Star Trek slash fiction, rappers' dentistry, Santa Claus conspiracies, stoner noir, zombies, guns and “buck-hungry retailers of the unspeakable” is a thread of cool-headed analysis and disciplined questioning.

Like Drummond, Dery invokes Hunter S Thompson, but in his case it's not as a prankster, it's as a stylist of language and gimlet-eyed political satirist in a tradition that runs from Swift through Twain and implicitly on to Dery himself. He's not arrogant to place himself in this line, mind - but however outlandish, his observations are unerringly aimed, almost always ring true, and even when they don't they're not easily dismissed. Both he and Drummond, despite their refusal to preach, are moralists in the best sense. They don't look at the modern world in search of the flip headache-cure answers of the Malcom Gladwell school of guru-ism lite, but accept its madness and even revel in it. As the good doctor himself once said, “when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro” - and in this deeply weird, wired world we need more professionals like these two.

[adeptus-orkraticus]

OK OK OK LISTEN TO ME GITZ

Someone has definitely had this line of thought before but I am very sleep deprived and wanna write a long ass post about something.

I reblogged a piece of art of what was described as a demi-krork and in the tags I put this:

And upon some more reading I think it is very possible that this is what “The Beast“ was or, more likely, just “The Beast of Beasts” was a Krork..

For those that don’t know, The Beast was the name given to the Warbosses that led the largest WAAAGH! the galaxy has ever seen and the biggest threat to the Imperium besides the Horus Heresy. The Beast of Beasts was the biggest of these Warbosses, standing at least 10 meters tall. The Beasts were also supposedly very intelligent with at least one of them being able to fluently speak Gothic. Now of course this could just be down to Orks in general getting smarter when more and more of them are together, which naturally the largest WAAAGH! ever which included nearly every Ork in the galaxy is bound to do. However this also seems very Krorky.

Krorks were the proto-orks who were possibly made by the Old Ones near the end of the war in heaven against the Necrontyr and the C’tan. Krorks are told to have been smarter, bigger and more technologically advanced than the Orks of the 41st millenium. On top of this the Krorks also had the Orks ability to believe so hard that what they believe becomes true. We have an example of a Krork in the current state of the Galaxy in the form of something owned by everyones favourite kleptomaniacal Egyptian robo-boy Trazyn the Infinite. Trazyn has in his enourmous collection a 12-foot-tall Krork that is wearing a power armour more advanced than that of an Astartes.

The novels do however classify the Beast as “Prime Orks“ but the description of a Prime Ork is incredibly similar to that of  Krork. Smarter, better tek, psychic power and, of course, L A R G E. Lexicanum also only says that the six Lesser Beasts were Prime-Orks, however, I have not been able to verify their source since I do not own a copy of the Novel The Beast Must Die.

Also yeah someone in the comments of the post I reblogged did call it a Prime-Ork.

For the reasons of the Beast of Beasts being both smart and being at least 10 foot tall, I believe that he was a Krork. How he stayed alive for literal millenia, I have no clue but Trazyn still has his Krork ten millenia after the war of the beast so hell, why not?

[pure-vanilla-lilies]

Gothic Moon Academy

Robo-Moon Academy

Okay first one sounds nds like a vampire anime 👀

Second one sounds like an 1980 anime 👀

SOUL BLADE ETERNAL

HOLY FUCK THAT SOUNDS SO COOL

@xx-ladybug-xx @mimuo-no @theautumnalcat @andy-aka-lilcsca @trippin-chippin

TURN THIS INTO A TAG GAME PLEASE!!!

[sortyourlifeoutmate]

So here's what confuses me about the Leagues of Votann.

So.

You've got The Kin - what they call squats now, they're called kin - and they live in groups called Kindreds. Fine. Kindreds can range in size from a couple dozen through a few thousand up to several million. It's basically a clan. They're all literally related because they're all artificially created from the same, uh, robo-wombs, basically.

They keep getting called a clone race but they're not clones? Like, the computers mix up the genetics to pop out new guys? Artificial, yes. Clones, no. But that's me. It's like calling the space marines 'genetically engineered' when they're kind of not.

Anyway.

Back to Kindreds. Kindreds band together into leagues - the titual Leagues of Votann. A League is made up however many Kindreds, and typically has some sort of broadly-shared ethos. Fine.

Now here's what confuses me.

The Votann (aka Ancestors Cores) are massive, pre-Imperial supercomputers. They got STC's, they got everything the squats might ever need. You ask 'em, they got it. Fine. Votann are super-duper important for the squats because they're basically required for their whole society to continue functioning and also they have a whole ancestor-worship thing going on since they also feed their brains to the Votann after death to, you know improve the gestalt.

Following this?

Now here's what confuses me: how many Votann are there?

Does every Kindred have a Votann? That wouldn't make a whole lot of sense, because there's lots of Kindred and Votann are implied to be pretty scarce - the Trans-Hyperian Alliance is notable for having a whopping three of the things. And since the squats need a Votann to even reproduce, surely it's impossible to be a Kindred without a Votann? So what did Kindreds do before joining a League? Were they always in a League? How do you get new Kindred? They just spring up in a League? Then stick with them?

Unclear.

Each Kindred communicates with a Votann using their Fane - it's a fancy-pants sci-fi gothic computer terminal, whatever, neat - but which Votann does this talk to? Their League's Votann, presumably. Do the Votann talk to each other? Are they networked? Don't think so. If you're not in a League, what does your Fane do? Who does it talk to?

The Kronus Hegemony's Fane (specifically the Fane of Korynn's Kindred) gained self-awareness one day and turned into a Votann. Guess they get to start their own League?

Suppose it all just plays into squat society being fairly static since they're stated to be fairly reluctant to change their minds and if you need a Votann even to function, well, you'll be sticking with the one you've always had, right?

There's probably answers to all of these questions.

[videogametako]

steam next fest jun 2024: robot girl's dream -robotbattlechampionship-

cute robot girl fighting everyone she can and living off scavenging for scrap. link here:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2742730/Robot_girls_dream_RobotBattleChampionship/

the game starts in japanese btw, not too difficult to change it to english though

overview

robot girl's dream is an rpg where you play a robot girl who wants to beat up another robot girl she saw on tv (and everyone else who wants to fight)

weird meteorites fall to earth and scientists use them to give robots emotions, so the story goes. the prologue sequence explains this and hands off the exposition of the city we'll be exploring to a robot idol newscaster girl

(i thought her name was supposed to be "sweet" but i checked and it actually is suit)

she's a cutie. she also gives us an overview of the town, though she does overlook the area we actually start in, the waste area

we pop out of a box. the first thing we see is the television

we see the main concept the game is centered around, the robot battles. the undisputed champion, scarlet, beats someone up. like an impressionable child, we decide that our life goal is to beat the champion of the biggest robo battling tournament

and that kicks off the game

gameplay

this game has this neat announcement graffiti transition before every battle. really gives the homey cartoon vibe, i like it

after you play a tutorial battle (which is just the two of you spamming your one attack, y'know like how two jank robots would duke it out) and more system-introducing events, the game opens up

sitting. this game features a surprisingly large amount of customization that we'll see a bit later

the game revolves around managing your robot girl's (default name Thin) finances and life decisions. first very important thing to note is that you need 100 Nem for food everyday or you start to lose energy and perform worse in battles. fail to eat for 3 days and it's game over

to get money you need to work. to start, you can only scavenge for scrap, which gives around 300~400 Nem and a random item, so it's not actually that bad. you unlock opportunities for different jobs as you play (hint: visit the recycling plant with more than 5 karma)

you can also choose to go somewhere and meet new people (trigger events) or shop. you can only either work or go out, though. i found myself having trouble to do everything i wanted to do in a single playthrough, so i imagine you have to really manage your decisions in the full game

starting a new game lets you pick between the full, a short, or entirely skipping the prologue. skipping actually removes an opportunity to put 10 Nem in the collection box of the garbage shop and get +1 karma so, that's interesting

customization

one of my favorite parts about this game is thin's sprite changing based on the outfit you're wearing. this applies in battles, events, and the main home screen. sounds like a bit of a nightmare for the artist, especially in the full game with more items but honestly it's super nice to see

different parts give stats, skills (passives), and tech (actives). some parts have a set bonus, like the maid and gothic lolita outfits. both of those give a new tech for wearing the full set

there's a skill tree, too. you get "memory" from remembering things. this usually happens in events, or by talking to people. some of this resource is missable btw (for example, you can get memory by talking to the tournament champion in battle iirc). it's super valuable though, providing permanent buffs for thin. i've only ever upgraded the knife so far (because i like using the maid and gothic lolita parts). i've since tried that grayed out 5 memory in the screenshot and it gives you a gun and gloves that's actually really great (and invalidates a point i make later), highly recommended to use. you can practically only get like 15 memory in the demo i think? since you get some memory for talking to people after the demo boss

battles

battles take place on a 1D grid. that is to say, on a line. you can move every turn, but can only perform an attack if it's within range after movement. also you can talk to your opponent, which can give some useful stats/resources (though you do lose the turn, which could cause you to lose)

i haven't actually checked what the stats do exactly, you can kinda just wing it if you know the general amount of damage you and your opponent can deal. there's systems like overheating to keep track of too (move/act too much and you lose a turn)

i find that upgrading your knife with memory twice to turn slash into double slash helps a lot with your damage output. though, that alone isn't enough to beat the boss. the reversible slash seems like it's good in theory because it provides spacing but 2/3 of the bosses in the tournament have ranged attacks, and even if they didn't they could just... move... though some moves can only be performed if you don't move, so it's mainly countering that (which does apply for the second tournament boss)

your main disadvantage is that nearly all your attack options are melee (i found one ranged attack in the shop but it's a one-time use so...), which feels super unfair against bosses that not only have ranged options, but can knock you back as well. fortunately, you can move while using defensive tech (which usually don't use a turn) so in practice it doesn't feel horrible

above is not true. you get a gun from unlocking something in the skill tree. it's really good paired with the combo gloves you get, i can beat battles without being at full health

closing thoughts

i'm gonna choose not to talk too much about the characters, but they're all a treat (especially the last two bosses). oh another thing i like about this game is the care that goes into the events, and specifically the interaction between thin and the other characters. there's a meeting after the first tournament boss that goes differently depending on whether or not you were able to meet the character beforehand. little things like that make the game really feel, uh alive i guess? i'm struggling to think of a better term, but you know what i mean. it's that rpg magic

i found the music a bit weird at first but it's grown on me. i am pretty excited for the full game too

OH also there's a sentai cartoon in one of the events (do the babysitting job) and it's conceptually glorious

this game is really cute and has a lot of potential. it's very japanese doujin game, if that makes sense (probably because it is one). if you like robot girls and fighting other robot girls, give the demo a try. wishlist the game on steam, it helps the devs

[electronicrobotdreams]

Over 21 | they/them Semi-selective Third Person Literate/Semi-literate Fandom friendly, oc friendly 18+ muns only Timezone: CST Home | Rules | Bio

Hi! I'm a nb writer looking for new friends to roleplay high-fantasy and sci-fi adventures with! I'm not usually interested in shipping based RPs, but instead writing adventures and creating/solving in-universe challenges for each other to overcome and figure out- Kind of like D&D without all the dice rolling!

My favorite style of roleplay is high fantasy. Most of my OCs come from a plotline with mythical beings like selkies, demons, dream worlds, self-aware robots, and beings you've never even heard of before! I like treating RP like a dance. Some dances I lead, creating the worlds and npcs with a basic idea for how the plot will go, and my partner bringing their creative wit to figure out what path to take or how to try to solve the challenges in our way. I love equal opportunities to be on the other side of the coin, where my partner gives the plot direction and I have new things to explore outside my own imagination. Regardless of who is leading the dance, I appreciate a partner to is thoughtful to give me something to respond to- not just respond to what I've written. It's a partnership, where both of us work together to create something fun! Not every plot has to be adventure and challenge, relaxing mellow plots that are just chats between our muses can be a fun break too!

If my play style sounds like what you'd also enjoy, send me a message and tell me your favorite mythical creature and why for an ice-breaker! Other things I'm interested in!

Games: Undertale | Portal | Phasmaphobia | Valheim | Fallout Series: Helluva Boss | Steven Universe | Good Omens | Case Closed Hobbies: Steampunk | Animation | Blender 3D | Unity

@inkywellington - Purple shapeshifter made of ink who creates magical items. Their preferred form is that of a purple octopus.

@klickbot - Small robot hotel manager often left dealing with mayhem, and an attitude that reflects that.

@peppergidget - Robot who believes she's alive! Is she right, or shouldn't she exist at all?

@bofflesresort - A catch-all multi-muse account for muses I play that don't have their own blog including Boffle the CEObot of the resort, The Savoie cat burglars, Salt the crystal-gothic child, Scoria, Shale & Sandy Quarry, and an assortment of robo-staff you can read more about on that blog's info page!