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Irrational Attachment
I directed the delivery guy to put the last high-tech crate next to the others in our very full cargo bay, and I breathed a quiet sigh of relief. This was a big order. I noted the final count with a good old-fashioned Earth pencil.
The delivery guy, a fellow human much beefier than I was, smirked at the pencil and clipboard. “Really living in the space age, there,” he said. “Don’t you guys have tablets and scanners?”
“Oh sure,” I replied. “But one has a cracked screen and the other's got a faulty battery. You know how it is.”
His response was eclipsed by the arrival of the sparkly purple conglomeration of limbs that was my coworker Zhee. I was used to bug aliens by now, but I was amused to see the brawny human edge back a step.
Zhee didn’t notice. “What is ‘pack bonding’?” he demanded, clicking to a stop and looking at the two of us expectantly. “They were telling jokes that made little sense.” He waved a pincher arm over his shoulder. “Then it occurred to me that I have a pair of qualified humans here I can ask. Why do people joke about humans caring too much?”
The delivery guy straightened up, all bluster. “Oh, it’s a bunch of radiator wash, really. Lots of species are social. Really, we wouldn’t all have space ships out here if everybody couldn’t cooperate!”
“Well, sure,” I said. “But there’s a difference between cooperating and getting attached. Didn’t you have a teddy bear as a kid?”
“Yeah, as a kid,” he scoffed. “We’re talking about grownups here.”
“Grownups do it too,” I told him, barreling on as he started to object. “We give names and personalities to ships and cars and space probes. We put googly eyes on machinery, and keep pet rocks. We build people out of snow, lending them our own clothes, and we’re sad when they melt away. We have ancient history of granting a bear military rank, and recent history of doing the same to a cleaning droid. We care about things.”
He was still shaking his head and looking stubborn, so I pulled the pencil from my pocket. I held it in front of his face with an intense stare.
“I can tell you that this pencil’s name is Steven,” I said. “Then I can do this—” I snapped it in half. “—And I can watch a little bit of you die inside.”
His expression was that of a person shaken to his core. “What the f— Why would you do that??”
I looked down at the broken pencil. “You can’t tell me humans don’t care.”
Zhee clicked a pincher. “But it’s just a pencil.”
“It was,” I said. “Now it’s Steven.” I pulled a roll of tape from a different pocket. “And now I have to nurse him back to health and apologize.”
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The ongoing backstory of the main character in this book. No pencils were (permanently) harmed in the creation of today's story.
#my writing#the Token Human#humans are weird#pack bonding#when everything is friend-shaped#apologies to Steven the pencil#I got that bit from a gifset of a show I don't watch#it was Memorable#I've been wanting to use it in something ever since#and it's a perfect example of claiming an inanimate object as Part Of The Pack#haso#hfy#humans are space orcs#aliens#eiad#also I'm aware that the proper word for mantis arms is 'pincer' not pincher#but I maintain that it's a stupid word#and the narrating character agrees with me#they're pinchers#they pinch#and the etymology says it's the same root word anyways#so nyah#take that spellcheck#rant over
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#i want to pinch his cheeks so hard right now you dont get it#but also i wouldnt bc i dont think he'd like that very much so#seo changbin#changbin edit#changbin gifs#skz#skz gifs#bystay#createskz#skzco#1 kids room#stray kids#stray kids gifs
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steve being victimised stimboard bc he gives me cuteness aggression
(Edit! i found more sillyness!)
#muahahahhaha#he is the ultimate blorbo#i cant pinch his cheeks so i will watch these and rub my hands together deviously#stimboard#minecraft stimboard#agere stimboard#minecraft steve#minecraft#agere blog#minecraft agere#my stuff
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screw it, give tails all the headpats
#my art#artzeeart#artists on tumblr#sonic the hedgehog#sonic fanart#sonic himself#miles tails prower#knuckles the echidna#amy rose#team sonic#sonics hand is in the way so amy can't pinch tails' cheek lol#NOT A SHIP NOT A SHIP#please don't be weird about this#I would've saved this for his birthday but it's too wholesome to contain for 2 months#tw eyestrain
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Love cat mini figurines 💖
#pony people#ceramics#handmade ceramics#cat ceramics#pottery#handmade pottery#ceramic cats#pinch pottery#cute ceramics#cat art
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💓💓💓💓
#the gays#happy gay month#aventurine#ratio#ratiorine#aventio#honkai star rail#hsr#I could pinch them#honkai#aventurine honkai star rail#ratio honkai star rail#comic#every month is gay month btw#<3#happy pride ehehe
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i like when hes squishy!
#i would like to pinch his cheeks and ruffle his hair#ive been so jealous of his hair lately. im really just gonna buy clippers the next time i go to the store i think#wtf... art#roronoa zoro#one piece fanart#zoro#sigh...implied#zosan#sanzo#if u squint#do not look at the anatomy on that wrist/hand it feels fucked but i wont be able to tell how until 1000s of eyes are alreayd lain upon it#edit: its fucking backwards again isnt it
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i wanted to draw batman's fresh as fuck look, but robin totally stole the show.
this post is about him now
#dc comics#dc#bruce wayne#batman#dick grayson#robin#nightwing#dc robin#batfam#batfamily#holy wet weather uniforms batman!!!!!!!#dickie in his little galoshes. his wellies. his gumbooties. i need to pinch his cheeks and wrap him in a blankie#i took the screenshots like 5 years ago so i dont remember the issue sorry. i remember they were waders though
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dawg.....what is that
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So. It’s no secret that the dunmeshi manga gradually changed art style as it went on (thereby twinkifying a few characters…) but I like to think that, in Thistle’s case specifically, it was also a change in perception by the party. I mean…
Early in the story, when all they knew about him was that he was the creepy, all-powerful mad sorcerer? Probably were much more intimidated by him. Same with the reader. BUT….
By the end? Oh, he’s just a little jester twink who writes poetry and can be picked up and slung around like a bag of potatoes. No way they could take him seriously anymore. Literally this meme but in reverse
Little guyification…
#polly speaks#dungeon meshi#dungeon meshi spoilers#dunmeshi#delicious in dungeon#thistle dungeon meshi#laios touden#here. have more unhinged thistle ramblings bc someone’s gotta do it#he’s literally so >:3 by the end it’s so so funny to me#I went from being like ‘huh. weird’ to wanting to pinch him cheeks
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I just met david tennant and got to give him my art
#life is good#someone pinch me real hard#need 4-5 business months to recover#goodnight#will scream more later
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sufficient time has passed so i can post this and appear normal. #surgeonofdeathcollab outfit #157
#one piece#trafalgar law#theres like 2 law outfits left unclaimed but i must stop myself from pinch hitting more
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sometimes being busy we forget to get cat food before we run out and only find out in the morning when it's cat breakfast time, but the cats aren't upset because they know if there's no kibble then they get to have the ✨rare beef✨slices from the cold box until I can go to the store to get normal food
do you know how hard it is to prepare beef for cat consumption properly when all 5 of them are using you as a cat tower
#remember folks only feed your cats meats with no seasonings and check before hand sensitivity or allergerns#good in a pinch#sara shush
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He’s so fun to draw!
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#hraaAAAH#he looks so soft and velvety I just want to pinch his cheek like a cartoon grandma#absolutely mesmerized by how irresistably endearing he looks in your style#I particularly love his eyebrows#and the color scheme!#the vivid clear yellows + desaturated greens is such a pleasant combo#I don't think I've seen these shades being used together at least not often#thank you!#gift art#forestcroww#Vasco#own characters#health restored by a quiet and cogitabund Vasco
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I know this was for a (charity?) stream but I’m dying to know what context there is for this if any 😂 like was it a request? Did Alex just draw it? If so why? Got somethin to tell us?
#gravity falls#FiddleStan#fiddleford x stan#fiddleford mcgucket#fiddleford hadron mcgucket#stan pines#stanley pines#context Alex pls#welp I guess Fidds wants a piece of Stanley’s ass lmao#I know this is just a silly doodle Alex drew don’t take it seriously#but it’s still funny af#this is golden#if I could make a robot to pinch someone’s cheeks I would#so Fiddleford is very relatable here lmao#ani rants about stupid shit#book of bill#the book of bill
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