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[snellyfish]

hi jacki!!! um i've been wondering if you take commissions? if not that's cool jfhdjfj have a good day/night 💖

Not at the moment, as they tend to stress me out especially during a move rn, but I'll make a post whenever I do open some slots!!

[smittyw]

i really like noemi and kita theyre silly..... but i would love to hear anything about your guys whoever you wanna talk about :] !!!!

:] i agree & im glad u enjoy their silliness !! those two were on my mind a lot lately

my driving force lately is a lot of "what if i could make them worse" (..im on a mission here). for kita that means being sort of a mascot, and interfacing with the public in parasocial ways that get a bit weird for her as an AI with no real friends (yet!). the extent of her actual sentience is always being debated. for noemi it means being more insufferable generally, bc she'll do pretty much anything if the question at the root is whether shes capable of it (even if no one asked). it was always in the cards for her to be a Gamer, to be arrogant, and to have an inconsistent attitude toward conflict and morality, but those aspects never rly got to see the light of day. her attitude toward kita is patronizing at times and honestly she can be blindsided by having her own creation make decisions apart from her. but they still get along well by design & id love to explore more of that dynamic again <3

OH and bc music helps me a lot w my process umm

noemi i associate w guerilla toss, machine girl, & anything that sounds kinda like the breaking bad remix

kita i associate with miki matsubara, leon chang and CAPSULE

[fefairys]

when did you get into adventure time? i cant remember if you've said it before sorry fjdhfjfj i think for me it was some time in 2019 after it had ended but it's still really special to me :] i caught most of season 1 on tv over the years but that was it for a while

oh i got into adventure time when it was just starting in 2010 when i was 9! it was my favorite show as kid! i would literally write reminders on the fridge when a new highly-anticipated episode was coming out and would make sure everyone in my family knew this was ADVENTURE TIME NIGHT and i NEED the tv!!! i kept up with it religiously for a long time, and would theorize with my brother and school friends about it (my school friends who did not seem as interested in the Lore as i was lol)

but i fell off keeping up with it around season 7/8 because we stopped getting cable. for big event arcs like islands and elements, i would go and pirate those episodes and then when the finale came out i watched it on its own with no context at the time lmao

it was an enormous part of my childhood and shaped the way i think about storytelling and my sense of humor. it is my favorite piece of media ever and i owe it a lot <3 i haven’t been consistent in posting about it cause my obsession with it wore off for a while there since most people had moved past it since it ended so fionna and cake is really allowing me to be full on insane about it again like i was in middle school and it’s really fun :’) if u go back in my archive i have posts in my adventure time tag dating back like 8 years haha!

and then like last year i did a big rewatch/finally watching some late episodes i never saw and finally had Everything. and then i just finished another rewatch a few days ago :)

i could talk about what it means to me for forever but i’ll end it there cuz this is already long 😅

[brokenbloodymolars]

your blog title.................. so true

FUCK ROBOTS 2K23 !!! I AM PUTTING WD-40 ALL UP IN MY LOWER REGIONS TO MAKE IT HAPPEN

[tobyisave]

Trust & Insecurity in Kiibo & Miu's relationship

(In response to @strawberrysweater ! Thanks for opening this can of worms and sorry for this huge post lmaooo)

To preface this: I do love them together!! I just enjoy looking for the places they might clash at times if they were actually in a relationship... So this is about the things that keep them from fully understanding/trusting each other. And ofc this is just my interpretation!!

My short answer:

(1) Miu only thinks she is valuable as an inventor and sexual object, (2) Most people only care about Kiibo as a scientific novelty, and (3) they both have JUST enough evidence to convince themselves that this is also how they view each other. Even if deep down they're only playing these roles in an attempt to get closer to another human being.

On top of that, even though they're especially vulnerable with each other, I think there's still a lot of misunderstanding between them that would be difficult for them to reconcile. First because they have some genuine points of conflict, and second because they each have problems communicating and reading people (i.e. reality distorting levels of abandonment issues & obligatory robot autism coding, respectively)

Elaboration under the cut:

PART A - Insecurities

You can see (1) and (2) a bit in their other relationships:

Miu is of course hypersexual at all times, and she gives inventions to Shuichi (FTE) and her fantasy lover (love suite) because, as she confesses herself, inventing stuff is the only way she knows how to show affection for other people besides offering them her body.

Her inventions and hypersexuality are also the only explicit points of connection between her and Kokichi, arguably the only other character she is remotely close to besides Kiibo and Shuichi.

So given that most of her onscreen relationship with Kiibo is sexual or scientific (or both) in nature, it’s easy for her to go on believing these are the only things she has to offer. It’s a bit self-fulfilling of course because she’s arguable the one controlling the direction of their relationship in the first place, and at this point I’m not sure she believes there’s anything else to her.

[Shout out to @cloudysonder for helping develop this take :P]

I get the impression Kiibo has met a lot of people over his life who only want to talk about how cool it is that he’s a robot, even though that’s not a part of his identity he initially likes to bring up.

In his FTE with Shuichi, he goes straight into 'demonstrating my functions' mode as if it's the only way he knows how to talk to people

We see him treated in this fetishized way in-game too: with Kokichi chasing him to be “friends with a robot”; with Kaede’s FTE asking him invasive questions and touching his buttons without asking; and in postgame with Kazuichi basically assaulting him and trying to take him apart out of scientific curiosity --- all of these within just his first or second interactions with these people!

So it's a BIG thing for him to willingly let Miu sit there and take him apart, when he already spends so much time fending off virtual strangers who don't respect his bodily autonomy. And he's not used to people taking a genuine interest in him as a person so he’s hesitant to let himself believe Miu is any different, especially when her interest is so explicitly centered around his biology.

Plus as long as Kiibo is physically dependent on Miu, there's going to be a lot of room for insecurity to fester on BOTH sides:

"Does Kiibo really need me or does he just need my technical skills? Does he want to do these favors for me or does he feel like he has to?"

"Does Miu really care who I am or does she just want to gawk at my body like everyone else does? Does she care who I am or am I just the first boy(?) to give her the time of day? Does she want to help me or does she just know she’s the only one who can?"

This is the biggest hurdle IMO because it's a necessarily unbalanced relationship, and it will have to continue for the foreseeable future, no matter how they feel about each other.

PART B - Respect/communication

Another thing is that I don't think they fully respect each other — kind of for the same reason the rest of the group doesn’t respect them either

Miu might not consider Kiibo a person. We know Kiibo was worried about this; when asking Shuichi to use the electrohammer on him he explains, "The outcome will settle once and for all how Miu perceived me." This, and the fact she says robots aren’t people in trial, make me pretty confident that she has never looked him in the eye and said "I consider you a person."

I think she has a complex relationship with Kiibo’s personhood. On one hand if he’s a thing then it’s much easier for her to control him (esp given what we see of their relationship) and this soothes her anxious heart by ensuring that he can’t abandon her.

At the same time, if this is the case, then his coerced/artificial love isn’t worth as much as it would be if it came from an autonomous human person — to her insecure mind, it becomes Miu alone in her room playing boyfriend girlfriend with a doll, if that makes sense. 

To clarify, I’m not saying she BELIEVES he’s just an object, but it’s an idea that both comforts and torments her.

It's worth noting, too, that Miu doesn't always respect people's consent. This is especially risky when you factor in their mechanic-robot relationship (which already comes with a difficult power dynamic) and Kiibo’s naive/somewhat people-pleasing personality.

On Kiibo’s end: I think it’s safe to say he finds her rude/inappropriate at first (though I think it's really sweet that he uses the much more euphemistic description 'brash and spirited' after getting to know her). They also have some pretty stark moral differences --- Kiibo is distraught to learn that Miu wasn't above murdering their classmates, for example.

More importantly, I headcanon he has a lot of difficulty understanding her at all  – on an emotional level, yes, and and on a literal level he just straight up doesn’t understand many of the sentences she says either

K: “Most of that was unintelligible nonsense, but…” after Miu explains her “secret woman weapon." IMO his decision to phrase this as an insult helps mask the fact he's not familiar with all the lewd references she just made

He also has problems understanding emotions from the start, and Miu is DIFFICULT to track because she cycles through emotions so rapidly.

+ he might find it hard to extrapolate that many of the things she does are part of a facade. The crass egotistical miu who says he’s not a person is equally as real to him as the deeply insecure miu wants to believe he is a person (if not more real…)

PART C

Also these bullets from my personal doc I don't have the willpower to expand on atm:

They are both so prone to misinterpreting people unkindly

They’re also both so misled about how committed a relationship is supposed to be. Like I think Kiibo would consider a confession from literally anyone to be tantamount to a proposal (based on his love suite scene). And Miu wouldn’t be quite so fast but i do think it’d still be a huge deal for her because she falls very hard very easily (based on her FTE). Which is all very cute but being plunged into a big commitment like that can be crazy stressful, esp for two teens who have never dated before (imo) and have no frame of reference. [I was actually just going to post about this part lol]

PART D

All that said... I love them together and I DO think they could make it work without too much heartbreak. A lot of the things I describe as problems here could easily be taken as strengths.

e.g. Their misunderstanding of how relationships work ironically makes them more compatible, since they're both ready to go whole hog (if Kiibo determines that he actually likes her that is). Miu's rapidly fluctuating emotions are confusing, but on some level I think he'd admire how deeply and obviously she is able to feel things. And of course Miu as an inventor has a deep (almost objectum like??) respect for machines that helps Kiibo accept that he can be a robot and a person at the same time, and is probably the only one in the class who understands just how impressive he really is.

Thanks thanks THANKS for reading if you seriously read all that!! Mwah!!!!

I would love to hear anyone's takes on my takes too :P I haven't been rotating them in my head for too long yet so I'm still developing my interpretations...

[vespertin-y]

got tagged by two different people to do this game so im just starting a new thread 🙏the idea is to put five of your favorite characters from different media in a poll for people to vote on their favorite, then tag five other people to do the same! as a fun personal challenge i decided not to pick anyone from danganronpa...

i'll tag my buddies @strawberrysweater @boy-above @thelemoncoffee @honeysucklebuttons and @ashe-brrrr ! of course there's no pressure to participate, and anyone who wasn't tagged can jump in if they like :]

[betty-fandom-blog]

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so… @strawberrysweater recommended i watch “Electric Dreams”, and i gotta say, it is one of the best movies i have ever seen :)

[alazyparallelworld]

(friend to all animals) kaede & (birds' nest hair) kiibo for @strawberrysweater - thank you so much!

this was done as an art request per vote on the now-closed transcoded poll.

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[infinitemacaroni]

(tagged by @mang0-l0ver ! tyy 😋)

Put your playlist on shuffle and List the first 10 songs, and then tag 10 people. No skipping!

using 2022 top songs 🤙

1. security - amyl and the sniffers

2. better each day - nobro

3. evilest man - king gizzard & the lizard wizard

4. all the smartest people - aesop rock

5. pressed 2 death - illuminati hotties

6. knead - illuminati hotties

7. freequent letdown - illuminati hotties (3x combo!!)

8. one way or another - the coathangers

9. friends - cheekface

10. (you’re better) than ever - illuminati hotties

any mutuals who wanna add on, i’ll make a playlist w your additions bc i like hearing new music :) @polikings @strawberrysweater @yui-mhcp001 @teacupchimera @craictropical @tro-pii @geoantennae @intljaystation @cherri-does-art @fuschiaghosts

[bare1ythere]

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Changing

[fefairys]

oc question 21 for uhhhhh anyone you want!!

oh boy ANYONE? what if i do some rando ive rarely ever talked about before instead of a psy character huh? jk im gonna do Psy

21. Why do they get up in the morning?  right now, Psy keeps on truckin for two reasons: 1) their mama and 2) navi. and that's just about it! they know those two would miss them if they were gone, so they stick around and try to cope with everything as best they can, for the sake of those two. they try to be happy because their mama wants to see them happy, and they want her to be happy... and also Literally they get up in the morning because mama always makes really yummy breakfast and they like to use their powers to help with that, too. mornings are actually really nice for them because they get to hang out with their mama and navi and eat yummy food :)

[brokenbloodymolars]

🧡💕💗❤️‍🩹!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BRO.. i miss you so much. I can't wait to hang out again. We rarely talk but I need to put in more effort to. You're a wonderful friend ❤️

[vespertin-y]

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[vespertin-y]

I posted 4,283 times in 2022

That's 2,694 more posts than 2021!

333 posts created (8%)

3,950 posts reblogged (92%)

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I tagged 3,301 of my posts in 2022

Only 23% of my posts had no tags

#dr - 1,259 posts

#maddy tag - 312 posts

#genshin - 279 posts

#mem says stuff - 278 posts

#saioumatsu tag - 223 posts

#fnaf - 189 posts

#utdr - 170 posts

#pokemon - 83 posts

#dice tag - 79 posts

#toh - 77 posts

Longest Tag: 140 characters

#he's only acting like that 2 protect himself! no point in killing one of the easiest manipulated jury members! go for the detectives instead

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

the description of the mondstadt mansion is HYSTERICAL to me specifically because of how background it is. no you will never ever get to see xiao and venti interact on-screen. yeah they have a house together. stop asking questions.

47 notes - Posted September 28, 2022

#4

yknow as horrible as early undertale fandom ship culture was, literally NO ONE does ship kids like them 😔 not even current undertale fandom can match that energy. every time i see a ““fankid”” that’s just a clumsy fusion of their parents i want to bang my head against a wallll it’s so irritating to me

56 notes - Posted March 27, 2022

#3

See the full post

83 notes - Posted January 9, 2022

#2

silly saiou headcanon i have: whenever shuichi gets kokichi a gift he does the thing where you wrap it to look like something completely different. kokichi gets what is very obviously a tightly-wrapped chair for christmas and when he tears the paper candy comes falling out. he gets a gift shaped like a nerf gun for his birthday and it’s a hammock inside. he thinks it’s the funniest thing Ever because he was genuinely shocked the first time it happened and now shuichi can never ever stop no matter how many paper cuts he gets.

88 notes - Posted October 20, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

ah yes, tumblr’s favorite ship dynamic: short stocky green-haired person who is so sweet you don’t realize their murder potential until it’s too late + tall thin boy with a facial scar relating to familial trauma who finds their first real friend in the green-haired person

132 notes - Posted June 4, 2022

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[sanchoyo]

ooo for the ask game 4 and 16 for tmm!

4. Do you have a NoTP in your fandom? Are they a popular OTP?

1.YES kish/ichigo! the thing is. I GET it, and I don't really care if other people ship it obv (esp since ppl are adults these days in the fandom at large and shipped it as kids, I get that its a nostalgia thing for a lot of ppl, or has an interesting post-canon dynamic?)

what I do hate is that kishigo shippers tend to throw my fav best boy masaya under the bus, or make him wildly ooc, or just generally hate on him. :( thankfully I see that a lot less these days as again a lot of ppl are adults and more mature abt it (and I am generous with the block button for ppl who arent, lmao) but back in the day it was painful and everywhere. like, even if im a masago fan, I LIKE kisshu as a character and find him interesting, and even if I DIDNT u wouldnt see me putting chara hate for him in the main tag! thats tacky! some ppl need to learn character analysis fr because how are they looking at the same characters I am!!!

kishigo just isnt For Me, its a lil icky even putting all of that aside but the way the fans of it acted years ago made it my association with the ship even worse. I dont think ill ever be able to look at it w/out cringing bc of that lol 🤷‍♂️

2....its not exactly a NoTP, but I dont really care for any pai ships I've seen either, but thats just bc I dont super love him as a character (I am so sorry to my sister if she ever sees this, he is her fav tmm boy x_x)

16. If you could change anything in the show, what would you change?

OHHH this is a hard one. the question specifies 'show' but I'm gonna actually answer for the series as a whole (manga, old show, new show)

I'd probably change the new series to keep the old series' lore about the mew aqua rod being an ancient alien artifact instead of being a masha form (...because this lines up with my fanfiction, no other reason, actually, lol)

2. For the old series, no panty/bust shots. those are awkward and bad, and the new show did better w that, at least imo.

3. make the new show longer. we know its at least getting a season 2, but cmon. give me like 7 seasons. stretch it out, add brand new filler eps with focus on each chara, no need to rush, give us lots of new mew content, don't be shy about merch, either... 👀 and add berry and ringo, too... (in a perfect world, season 3 will be made and feature berry, and ringo would get an OVA or movie situation.)

4. more alien lore!!!! anything. give us crumbs we deserve them (I also really wanted alien redesigns like the girls got tbh! even if I kinda like the old mew designs better, I still wouldve liked to see smth new for the aliens anyway)

5. MORE OUTFITS. always want more Fashione for the gals

Thank u for asking!! ^^