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Chapter 6 of the Devil May Care has illustrations be careful mind the tags mind. the. tags. the illustration is nice the fic is not.
#ghost/soap#ghoap#ghostsoap#soapghost#ghost/graves#soap/graves#how's that for a tag#chilling#that's how you know this is a bad fi
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“Haven’t You Noticed (I’m a Star)” from Steven Universe works so ridiculously well for Leo
#rottmnt#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles#rottmnt headcanons#rottmnt leo#rise leo#listen it’s morning now and I haven’t slept so bear with me for the sudden unwarranted lyric analysis haha#a lotttt of the lyrics work so well for him#not even just the overall theme the words just work great#first lyric is literally ‘I can’t help it if I make a scene’ which is one to one with ‘Leo’s makin a scene’ from the rottmnt opening like-#‘I’m turning heads and I’m stopping traffic’ -> Leo has not made it a secret that he values his looks a LOT#-not just his looks but also his ability to get people’s attention#‘when I pose they scream when I joke they laugh’ -> I feel like this speaks for itself#-posing and joking for the crowd and himself#‘I’ve got them dazzled like a stage magician’ -> works both with Leo’s canonical love of magicians and his aptitude with tricks in general#‘well everybody needs a friend and I’ve got you and you and you’ -> I just think it’d be cute to imagine his friends here just as his bros#‘I got you and you and you’ = ‘my brainy guy my smashing guy and eats peanut butter with his fingers guy’#‘haven’t you noticed that I’m a star?’ -> Leo loves attention and especially loves when his feats and efforts are acknowledged#+ he loves glam rock and sci-fi and being a champ and - listen he has a LOT of star symbolism with him#‘haven’t you noticed I made it this far’ - Leo is well aware of how dangerous situations get and thinks himself only a part of a whole#-so hey it’s notable that he’s survived this long yeah?#‘now everyone can see me burning’ -> self-sacrificing with his family bearing witness + all his star and flame symbolism in general#+ how attention naturally goes to him - including bad attention where his mistakes are highlighted and burn bright#also even the limo lyric-#obviously this boy has never and will never own a limo but one of his main secondary colors IS pink so even that#okay that one is just a joke but he would#(on that note though I think the other colors the boys gravitate to outside THEIR color are fun to notice)#I don’t actually know too much about Steven universe beyond the songs and some eps but I like the music#and this just came to my tired mind so here you go anyone who’s interested#may draw something with these lyrics dunno yet#it’s a good song in any case even though it’s super short
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wanted 2 take a stab at akizet design...tis mentioned that obesk have chitin + are not so expressive as humans ? so taking those 2 bits of info i ran w em....segmented face n hands etc etc. idk what exactly to do for her receptors but theyre there. thumbs up emote
#btw. if you like outer wilds. and can handle eyestrain. and want to play a game where u scratch the itch of doin archeology on alien shit.#i gesture at corru.observer#corru.observer#akizet#art#love when aliens are like bugs. more of these please <-guy whos new to sci fi voice#actually tbf idk if the obesk are really buglike#..ok i was about to go off on a tangent abt like how do we know their ''chitin'' is really particularly ''chitin' like we know it on earth#but then i remembered they literally have the ''larval'' form designation. ok nvm then#and the translator does the uhhh. translating thing. thumbs up#whatever if u know u know#anyway im excited 2 see where corruobservers goin next wheeee#i <3 aliens i hope nothing bad happens to them ever (thumbs up emote)
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Architects can change their form right? I mean their bodies are pretty much a few dozen organisms frankensteined together, so it wouldn’t be much of a stretch to imagine that even though it isn’t desirable to them they would be willing to get a new body that is based on only a quarter of said organisms, a form that isn’t akin to their usual bodies but more specific for certain planets / solar systems. I mean canonically we know that they can transfer to different bodies so it isn’t much of a stretch to imagine they do have different types of bodies for different planets and solar systems. So what would a humanoid body look like? I’d imagine it wouldn’t look like an actual human does, perhaps a little uncanny (eyes too far apart, nose too far up, lower arms too long, you get it) or just full alien, maybe a mix of features too. Would they have hair or would it be considered inefficient? Would they be taller or shorter than the average human? Female or male presenting? Or androgynous perhaps?
TLDR: if architects would create a humanoid(ish) body would it have hair or not?
#subnautica#al-an#al an subnautica#video game fandom#headcanon#please I need an answer#I want to draw semi humanoid architects soo bad ngl#imagine how cool it would be if architects would consistently have more than one form though#sorry I’m merging this with my own sci-fi story a little lmao but still#I just love aliens man they’re so fun to design- even speaking in hypotheticals#al an#subnautica architects#I might actually draw this tbh#you know what#I will draw that#give me a second
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Back at it again with Bad Anime Narilamb 3!1!
#changing to myself that it’s meant to be bad so I don’t get upset over how bad it looks-#*chanting#cult of the lamb#narilamb#true devotion#you know what I don’t wanna tag anything else for the fandom#anyways here’s what it all says cause my handwriting is Bad lol#Helob: As if Lamb-San would EVER ask YOU to go see fireworks!#(didn’t write this part but Later)#Lamb: Heyyy Nari-Chan wanna go see fireworks?#Narinder: L-Lamb-Senpai! Y-Yes!!!#Narinder: I-I mean whatever… Baka!#(Doki Doki)#Narinder has been the one drawing all of these ok. I’m not to blame-#Leshy: What the shit is this-#you can see the ghosts of lines past 💛 and all the smudging 💛#the side profiles of these dumb anime-fied cotl characters are SO hard to draw for NO reason#my art#I… guess…
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breaking my tumblr leave for exactly one extra post bc i couldn’t not post this but like. genuinely baffles me how people Still end up writing weird pro-slavery shit within their stories with a like “well the species wants to be enslaved!” thing when like, science fiction fucking has existed for so long. like there has been media that’s like “it’s still fucked up to treat sentient and sapient people like tools even if they quote unquote want it bc if they do it’s bc they're essentially (and often literally) indoctrinated and programmed into it from birth and you’re taking advantage of that to abuse and exploit them without them being able to conceive of that fact and they will be fucking pissed when they find out and tbh we kinda deserve it” since before all of us were born like have some people not read a Single Story with a robot in it. ever. in their lives. it’s literally so easy to not sound like a fucking slavery advocate.
#like i mean i know the wizard book is the most obvious but it’s an unfortunate fact it’s not exclusive to those#It’s. Frustratingly present in a lot of fantasy and sci fi works despite again there being stories older than us exploring how fucked itd b#anyway I was thinking about this bc I’m Writing a robot who sees herself as a tool and it is literally So Easy to write that as a Bad Thing#bc like. if a person thinks like that they have been groomed and grooming is in fact wrong#it is very fucked up that a person would see themselves as less than one. that doesn’t mean don’t write it it means don’t like.#say slavery is okay bc of trauma responses. bc thinking being exploited Is Fine is a trauma response your brain does to protect you.#not like. a good and reasonable thing.
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the thought of cracking the spine of a book makes kevin nauseous. he like opens it just enough to see the words and holds the book at such uncomfortable angles to read— anything to keep the book pristine and intact. he does not let people borrow his books because he is a control freak (as a term of endearment) and does not trust them to take care of them the way he does.
and andrew is the complete opposite, cracking the spine as soon as he opens it. he annotates in pen. he dog ears the pages because who the fuck has time to find a bookmark. he throws books out of anger. he throws them at aaron for fun. he lets them get smashed and torn in his bag. he always keeps them, he just prefers them to look like they’ve been read.
#someone asks kevin what he’s reading and he doesn’t say the name he just explains the ENTIRE plot of whatever historical thing it is#then is like oh….it’s [book] by [author]….#someone asks to borrow a book from him and he’s like “i’m sure the library has it”#andrew probably reads horror and sci fi#he probably fucks with stephen king heavy#i refuse to believe andrew “eidetic memory” minyard is “aLLeRgiC tO boOkS”#have you heard him speak… so poetic for what#i fucking know he’s read shakespeare. he hated it but he read it#imagining andrew as a child in foster care escaping in fantasy worlds to get away from his real life is doing something. bad. to me#kevin reads historical fiction and nonfiction#my baby has a special interest and i will do nothing but respect that#“kevin how often do you think about the roman empire”#“…every time i turn on the faucet… why…?”#and when they stare blankly at him he goes on a RANT about roman acqueducts and how they were#“—LITERALLY REVOLUTIONARY WHY ARE YOU LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT??? we would not have running water THINK ABOUT THAT for ONE SECOND”#neil josten doesn’t read. he can’t sit still long enough to#aftg#kevin day#andrew minyard#all for the game#the foxhole court#tfc
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tired of being silent on the issue. let me in the writers room NOW
#going to lead a workshop on how to write good time travel narratives. the situation is dire here#text#time travel#photo#YOU CANNOT ESTABLISH HARD RULES TIME TRAVEL SYSTEM AND WALK IT BACK LATER. DR WHO KNOWS THIS. TED CHIANG KNOWS THIS. WHY DOESNT ANYONE ELSE#i’m not even joking even LOKI did this better#but umbrella academy girl. be for real#doom patrol did this better#ted chiang#stories of your life and others#arrival#doctor who#the umbrella academy#doom patrol#avengers endgame#🤢#THE PLOT HOLES#THE CHARACTER ASSASSINATION#voltron doesn’t really have time travel but it somehow did the exact same sci fi sins by a remarkable feat of bad writing#you can write nonsense time travel you can do it! it’s okay!!! it’s fun even!!!#BUT YOU CANT IGNORE ALL THE THINGS THAT MAKE TIME TRAVEL STORIES WORK AND OR BE GOOD AND OR BE FUN. AT ALL.#back to the future baby. we need you back more than ever
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people who don't normally read sci fi have such bad taste in sci fi 😭
#which makes sense because they're there despite having no attraction to what makes sci fi sci fi#but it's funny because they're always so excited to give their recommendation#and it's always like. ready player one or bobiverse or the locked tomb or something else horrendously tacky#like it's either awful marvel style quipping or something painfully twee that thinks it's deeper than it is a la Becky Chambers#and you have to try to be nice while they rave about some of the worst writing a mainstream publisher has put out#that only counts as “sci fi” bc it's in space or whatever#the other option is they like some military shit linked to a video game about how some genocide is necessary#don't get me wrong I read mostly bad sci fi and I'm aware good sci fi is rare#but it's like you had taco bell exactly once and someone's like 'any good Mexican restaurant recs in this town?'#and you just HAVE to respond with how good your dorito taco was and it's the best Mexican food#and in this scenario you don't even know enough to say “hear me out” you don't know other restaurants even exist like it's never occurred#to you to look and after that one dorito Taco you never had any interest in having Mexican food ever again#and yet. if someone is talking about Mexican food you just have to bring up you ate a Dorito taco one time and everyone should have one#how it's the best Mexican food in the world#also tumblr stop saying books are good just cuz there are lgbt people in them challenge#one time i asked for ppls fav sci fi nobody's heard of and fully half the replies were Becky fucking Chambers btw
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Legend of Zelly update
Looks as rgb ven diagram i can make a religion out of this
#i was looking up colour stuff to figure out colour palette ideas for hylia and#now this is a thing#ignore how bad the curves are i dont wanna talk about it#you dont understand how much skyward sword character design is secretly just me speculating about the gods of the zelda universe#if i ever finish one i can guarentee the word vomit that comes with it will be glorious#drawing fi? i think you mean speculating about hylias godly domain and animal motifs#you dont even wanna know my gods-wings theory#i have so much#loz#legend of zelda#legend of zelly au#jellyfish's thoughts
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the more I think about it the more absolutely balls to the ceiling nonsensical necrontyr lore becomes
#not the “space marines could never really exist” normal sci-fi tier but the HOW THE FUCK DOES ANY OF THIS MAKE SENSE tier#you know it's bad when one of the most logical ways to square the necrontyr is to presume they were technologically uplifted#or that they are not native to their homeworld#40k#salt
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For anyone keeping track (no one), I have started watching the first Avengers film (MCU not the 60s TV show) but only while eating lunch so it's gonna take a while. So far Nick Fury has been assembling the Avengers (the film was initially released in the UK as Avengers Assemble - because of that 60s TV show - but it's not called that on D+ so I'm calling it what the Americans called it, just FYI) even though there's not yet anything for them to avenge as That Suit Guy (j/k I know his name too!!) isn't dead yet, and now they're on THE FUCKING VALIANT FROM DR WHO and I assume we're gonna continue assembling for a while as they're not all there yet.
MEANWHILE Loki (who is neither an alligator nor a woman in this???) is in a SECRET UNDERGROUND LAIR with a bunch of his stans who are... idk something technobabble that involves irridium and anti-protons. He is there looking for the tesseract on behalf of ???? who I know will be revealed 47 films from now as... no, wait, it wasn't, was it? That was just announced on a website or something? So it could be LITERALLY ANYONE. The Avengers (in-progress) also seem to be after that thing, but I have already forgotten why everyone is wanting it, assuming it was mentioned (it probably was).
Thor hasn't shown up yet, but Arrows Hawkeye is working as a Loki Stan and there's Steve Rogers and THE HULK and The Only Woman One, whose power is that she's a Cold War assassin (??) and I think this one is the film where she gets called a cunt (!) and honestly I am not sure which of the men she's getting officially shipped with, I think Arrows Hawkeye though? Fairly sure, as the alternative is that a man and a woman like each other as people but not in a lusty way, which would never happen obviously. (Hey I may ship mostly het* pairings but I don't always like it!)
Based on the Valiant (if u don't know who she is get da hell out of here!) I am guessing that the film ends with Loki dying in Thor's arms romantically but then I remembered that I know it can't because one of Loki got kidnapped from... either the end of this film or the start of the next one or POSSIBLY just from a later film's time-travel bit (???) but like... maybe they've edited this film secretly and I was right after all? But nobody else has watched it on Disney + recently so nobody knows yet? IT COULD HAPPEN.
Not sure what to make of this film so far, a lot's been going on yet also not much has been going on, and the one I like best so far (Suit Guy) is gonna die (NOT EVEN IN THOR'S ARMS ROMANTICALLY) and god Iron Man really hasn't aged well now that we have that one tech billionaire being a twat in public all the time to remind us what such people tend to be like. WHERE IS THOR????
*I say het but everyone in everything is bisexual, I know this because I thought of it and announced it on tumblr and will now say "I don't make the rules" to make it an objective FACT. I don't make the rules!!!
#the avengers (mcu edition not the 60s one)#(though if u close one eye and tilt ur head the black widow looks a wee bit like emma peel maybe?)#i like to think the lair of loki stans exists after this to post angrily on social media about how actually he did nothing wrong etc etc#let me know if loki's just working from a subway station that's still in use in this that'd be hilarious he'd be so annoyed by it all#torn on the tortured-by-thanos issue so far he does look messy but he might just have the flu and didn't want to back out#a lot of people are depending on him to jumpstart a movie superhero franchise he can't just take the day off can he#if loki took care of himself thor would be LITERALLY UNEMPLOYED how could he? how could YOU?#(the 'god of thunder' thing isn't a job he doesn't get paid for it so it's just a hobby)#(he doesn't even monetise that hobby! you think iron man would give you storms for free? EXACTLY. he'd have a patreon AT LEAST)#(“if you enjoyed this torrential rain pls tip me on ko-fi which is not pronounced like you think it is because it's a really BAD pun”)#and whatever the fuck my loki character tag was#like i said i really do need to categorise my lokis more it's been bothering me for a while#reminder: i am here because they cast a woman in a previously-male role and SHE'S NOT EVEN IN THIS FILM. OR ANY OF THEM. D:#don't think the alligator's gonna turn up here either :( :( :(#otherwise it's just kind of fascinating what this film assumes i do and don't know about these characters#nick fury's a goth right?#mcu tag
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Anyway I think the twist being the main character was what they despised all along fucks actually
#random thoughts#specifically in sci fi#what does 'robots don't deserve rights because they aren't human' become when you discover you yourself are a robot#not specifically this trope but i was thinking about the 'the little girl was a robot this whole time' twist in dbh and how it sucked#which is mainly because the whole relationship between the girl and her robot guardian was so heartfelt#was BECAUSE the girl was human and the robot was a robot#a child choosing her wires and bolts nanny over her flesh and blood dad because only one of them was family to her#also the twist tries to justify her dad's abuse of her like 'well obviously she's not REALLY his kid'#'you have to think about what he's going through' yeah shut up#also the twist doesn't really work when robots are already basically identical to humans#you could take any character in that game and go 'they were secretly a robot' and yeah sure ig#there's nothing DISPROVING it#now fallout 4. is also bad but let me think about the fallout 4 in my brain 4 a sec#i love the idea of a synth main character who doesn't know she's a synth#especially if she's bffs with valentine like. the contrast#between flesh and blood and nuts and bolts#also the idea of ss being nick's main advocate for his personhood BEFORE realizing she's also a synth#nick 🤝 nora: is this trauma mine or does it belong to me version 1.0#nora replaying that memory of when her husband got shot like 'was that when i was me or did that memory belong to the original nora'#'or was it even a memory at all??? was it planted by the institute???'#and like there is no way of confirming you're a synth except post mortem#so she just has to like connect all the dots herself with no actual physical confirmation of what she believes is true#the institute was destroyed. any paperwork documenting who she actually is is lost to time immemorial.#and shaun isn't above making synths of. i almost said dead people#god shaun is really dead isn't he. that little boy is a ghost.#anyway back to the original topic#best twist is when there's a visible distinction between humans and robots AND it's known in the narrative#that more sophisticated forms of bots are being tested but not yet produced on a global scale#also if the main character either lacks empathy for robots or whose relationship with a robot character isn't built on the idea of#'look at us transcending social norms by being a human and a robot and being friends'
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Rebel Moon on Netflix is sooooooo soso bad guys 😂 like at least there’s space Charlie Hunnam with a Scottish accent and sometimes the main character has a flashback where she has a better haircut AND there’s a sibling duo who have the best costumes in the movie but the story? The script? The movie structure? Cohesiveness? Absolutely terrible. And there’s still 45 minutes left
#and it’s only part ONE#and it’s not interesting enough to compel me to watch a whole second movie of this#there’s a billion things going on but none of it fits together and they’re all just mostly disconnected events or ideas or just STUFF#and none of it is the basic things we need like. character connections and relationships.#it’s ALL flashbacks and EXPOSITION and world building#those things should be there when necessary. give us the minimum we need to know and move ON.#if there’s so much backstory that needs expositioning you should have made that movie instead of it was relevant buildup to THIS story#worldbuilding should be there for flavor - boundaries - and establishing the rules for how the story happens within its structure#this universe just. doesn’t seem like there are any limits. so there’s no tension or cohesive feeling to it. so I just end up not caring lo#at least Jupiter Ascending was CAMPY bad#Rebel Moon is just BEGGING for you to take it seriously and BEGGING for you to make it the next big sci-fi cornerstone in culture#but I swear it is just. so bad.#I don’t even know where to start with it 😂#there’s also like. some things they don’t warn for that they defo should have included in the rest? idk maybe that’s just me but#if you warn about attempted assault against a woman you should also do it for one of the men later#also I said ‘main character’ in the post but it really seems like they’re trying to make EVERY character the main character.#they’re too individual to come together. it’s just random ingredients not one dish.#it’s not structured the way an ensemble movie is supposed to be so it just doesn’t work 🤷♂️
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can somebody please suggest some good sci-fi movies im starving over here. just one good sci-fi movie like mitski said in that one song
#im watching rebel moon and like. what the fuck.#how do you make a sci-fi movie this bad and this predictable and this boring#the creator also was incredibly disappointing i still don't understand why so many people liked it#if you did please let me cause im at a point where im thinking im missing something#ive been thinking of watching the annihilation movie cause i loved the books but i know they're very different#personal tag
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The L-Factor
During an adventure involving Marcy's latest attempt to make Bob rejoin their clan, Luigi gets separated from the group by the machinations of Mr. L, who uses a specially designed Lag Switch to put him out-of-phase with the rest of the Universe and take his place using a disguise. Now Luigi has to figure out how to warn the others of the imposter and get himself back to normal, but how can he do that when he can't be seen, heard, or affect anything around himself?
#smg4#smg4 ocs#episode idea#marcy bobowski#bob bobowski#luigi#mr l#you know what's better than one somewhat silly antagonist?#TWO somewhat silly antagonists who have *nothing* to do with each other!#poor luigi keeps getting put in Situations#“character gets put out of phase and has to fix it somehow” is one of my favorite sci-fi tropes#even if there's always the (usually) glossed over issue of “how are they breathing and standing/sitting on things?”#in this case you can just say “eh it's a video game”#marcy is very stubborn and makes bad decisions#it's the bobowski charm#the only reason mr l isn't figured out immediately is because everyone's distracted by the Bobowski Family Drama
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