#space face books

[doctorsiren]

The books reveal that Ford is actually a secret partier

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(wips under cut)

[vintrage]

fire cannot kill a dragon BITCH

[rayroseu]

(sketch) they held hands and he made friends with a magnificently crafted gargoyle that TALKS🥺🥺🥺💖💖💖✨✨✨✨✨

its cute that malleus fangirling is just him with a shocked face unable to process anything lol

[tabooiart]

mr goatman... goat me a man.... make him the goatest that ive ever seen...

[inafieldofdaisies]

Shōgun (2024) | Chapter 10: “A Dream Of A Dream” | Favorite scenes

“Let your hands be the last to hold her.”

[coquelicoq]

i can't stress enough that outside of this one moment in rogue protocol when murderbot wants to kill a human for betraying its sort-of clients but settles for the next best thing of menacingly hovering a drone in her face for 26 seconds while she's frozen in place by her armor, for the rest of the first four books mb is really only using drones for security purposes and doesn't have the time or inclination to be performing close-range facial analysis:

in ASR it doesn't seem to be all that familiar with drones outside of maybe using them to set a perimeter. it exhibits several other uses of drones as events escalate, but they're all related to protecting itself and its humans and getting intel on EvilSurvey. at no point does it mention watching a human with a drone; it's all "using drones to draw fire" this and "sending drones flying off in the wrong direction as a diversion tactic" that. et cetera.

it has no access to drones whatsoever in AC from what i can tell.

in RP it uses Ship's drones to record conversations between wilken and gerth, but it's not a participant in those conversations and it doesn't even watch them in real time. it also forgoes getting a good look at their weapons via drone because it thinks they would notice. later it takes control of a station drone to watch (from afar) their first meeting with don abene & co., but miki notices the drone and almost catches mb because of it, which freaks it out. then it hacks the combatbots' drones, but other than the aforementioned 26-second intimidation of wilken, it's too busy doing actual security work to use them to look at people.

in ES it accesses drones many times, including to observe its humans, but it only seems to actually control a drone to look at something one time, and only in order to zoom in on a suit logo. so at no point could it conceivably be directing a drone to get up in somebody's face, since it's just piggybacking on drones as they go about their normal business.

it does use cameras to watch people in the first four books, but in a much less obvious way: either it's using fixed cameras that are built into habitats/hoppers/whatever, or it's accessing mobile cameras (suit cams, station drones) but not controlling where those cameras go or what they're pointing at.

it's interesting, because while drones can be startling or intrusive, on the flip side, cameras that don't move don't draw attention to themselves and thus may make it easier to forget you're being watched (plus you have no way of knowing if that particular camera is being monitored at that moment or if it's just recording for later analysis). so in a way, having a drone in your face actively signals to you that mb is paying attention to you. it's making mb's gaze visible in a way it might not otherwise be. this changes the dynamic from "passive surveillance for datamining and threat assessment purposes" to "person actively choosing to pay attention to you in real time". one of these is covert and the other isn't; one of these holds the possibility of interaction and exchange and the other doesn't. maybe it puts a drone in your face to show you it cares.

[jacksprostate]

what do you think is the reason for only Tyler, Angel Face, and Bob (and the Narrator) to have hair while everyone else has mostly shaved it off? I have my own theory, but I'd like to hear what you think.

Realistically: they're all the higher profile actors, lol. Very simple truth of it. For stuff like that, that's obviously a result of studio oversight and pr teams both not wanting their darlings to be shaved, I don't bother making an in-story reasoning.

That said,

the narrator himself does not shave his head in both the book and movie and it points to his lack of commitment. In the movie he doesn't participate in Project Mayhem at all unless Tyler's there pushing him, he can't let go and follow Tyler, not even if it just means a haircut. Unless Tyler's there to baby and bully him through, he's stuck in inertia. In the book, he's much more into Project Mayhem, taking Tyler's orders from the mechanic. But he's an automaton. You feed orders in, get results, and he commits to nothing else. It doesn't even cross his mind to develop further. Again, inertia. Slightly different flavor.

Part of what likely holds him back, too, is that Tyler hasn't told him to; in the movie, that means maybe he's special. He wants to be special. Movie narrator can't let go of that beautiful little stage where it was just him and Tyler and he was Tyler's little pet project and they were able to do stupid shit and tell society to fuck off but he could also get paid or at the very least didn't have to wrestle with the fact that his darling Tyler isn't content with just them becoming asocial recluses. Tyler wants change for everyone, not just him. In the book, it moreso means he's very much out of the loop. The space monkeys only start shaving their heads after he's collected his 12 human sacrifices and is going cross country trying to find Tyler. His priority is finding Tyler. And then he finds out he is Tyler. No time left.

[birchtreestick]

"SAys he's happy, he's a LIAR, blame the ARSON for the FIRE"

Is one of the sickest lyrics I've ever heard

It's so cool but also:

[quixoticquark]

[walterdecourceys]

i got a book on jfk and then left it on my floor and i keep forgetting it's there and then get jumpscared by his face staring DIRECTLY at me when i walk into the room

[ssaalexblake]

i need time travel shenanigans (and plot shenanigans) so the burnham/booker family (+ grudge the magic immortal kitty cat) can have a family dinner with the Sarek/Amanda clan (spock you have to come, no i don't care about anybody's sensibilities).

We should invite the emperor for funsies, too.

I enjoy thinking about the chaos of this.

[athousandbyeol]

fragile space [topmew fanfic]

mew meddles his way to top's world and tightens his hold. and mew whispers, knowing top won't hear this, a heartfelt, "i think i like you."

[mechabutchzilla]

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[lildoodlenoodle]

Have a feral noir!Felicia I drew like 4 yrs ago and never finished

[whatareyoudoingwithamaserati]

aftg is a series about running and trauma and regressing and healing and becoming the person you never thought you could be and learning how to live comfortably in your own skin again. it’s about committing to the bit and about being a major asshole who has found other assholes and formed a family with them and about several paragraph long iconic roasts and it is about HEALING. AND JEAN IS GETTING HIS TURN. GOD.

[glassamphibians]

if ur gonna make a queer lit shelf you have GOT to put more than heartstopper and rwrb on it im literally begging you