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scarapanna · 5 months ago
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I liked your art, you won🎉🎉🎉
WE WON NO REDEMPTION WAHOOOOO/silly
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I'm still terrified of the redemption route for this clown though hdhghfg, I want his silly self to stay evil and wimsy and goofy and with redemption uhhh
We're like
I dunno I'm sooo scared devsis is gonna take away that aspect which is what makes him just so funnn. Please pretty please let him be god awful and rotten and rude and goofy if you take that route Devisis I want him to keep his funny wimsy qualities. Please please pleaseeee write him well y'all are doing sooo good with him don't fumble by taking the redemption route (And if they do it better be good and he better stay chaotic and goofy and sassy and condescending and all his "rotten rabid thing" qualities)
If they do him (And his fun aspects justice in this dreaded hypotetical) then I may be cool with it. Though the mean ass possum has grown on me so much I'd 100% miss that evil and unhinged part of him TONS, devsis have mercy pretty please/silly
[Longer more insane ramblings are in the tags hsfhfhhv]
#my view of these two is that these should still be some bitterness on both sides#Both on SM's rabid half and on PV's half#they should both hold some form of “fear” towards one another. just deep deep down considering everything#and SM being rotten AF shchshfn#just thoughts#speaking of...#I like to think of PV's “”friendship“” offer as leff of a “yeah let's be buddy buddies!!!” offer but more of a “I could show you a#better way. Fighting like this is pointless and things could be better if you let me show you the right path.“ kind of offer#I like the idea of PV not really being able to “forgive”/“forget” the horror of the spire of deceit. But compassion is his entire thing#(cough cough the guy's known for ending wars trough reconcilliation and civil conversation. With the occasional “we are cool now!!!” on bot#parties cough cough)#and so I believe he'd be the kind to understand what “explains the guy's sheer insanity” and all but withouth#seeing that as a justification.#TLDR the good old “I get where you're coming from but it isn't an excuse. I'm still condemning your actions.”#*LESS (i aint rewriting that y'all gotta stick with my embarassingly dumb grammatical oversights unfortunately)/silly#long story short I'm a fan of PV trying to do the whole civil convo approach but I want SM to be a stark contrast to that#he should be a HUUUGE challenge to get trough. And it'd be fun if he was simply too far gone#If he isn't though. I want them to have leftover tension#stuff's inevitable imo and it'd be fun to see some clashing#askbox stuff#beetle's ramblings#cookie run kingdom#pure vanilla cookie#shadow milk cookie#crk spoilers#beast yeast spoilers#awakened pure vanilla cookie
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nanatsuyu · 8 months ago
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is the parallel play discord youre talking about making just for close mutuals/friends? genq!!
nope! im very happy to have anyone who wants to join! i want to make a lil space where people can feel comfortable chatting about stuff they're working on and perhaps not feel so isolated when doing so. (I know I work a lot better on deadlines or for xyz amounts of time if I have someone also doing the same.) so as long as everyone's cool, it'll maybe function as a lax study group of sorts and more friends can be made (: even if the 'study' is like me organising my backlog of papercrafts while in a vc while someone else works on art and so on and so forth.
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d4nde1ion · 2 months ago
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Feelin (very negative) things about AI, but also very grateful for what I learned about creativity and myself through stopping using it
#Ramble but TLDR AI almost killed my creativity but I kicked it out of my life and nursed my own creative muse back to health with practice#Never passed AI shit off as my own writing whether creative or academic. Even while I was doing this I prided myself on that#And especially my academic integrity. Classmates bragged about using AI on papers but I never touched the shit for an essay or anything.#But I still felt like a hypocrite bc I RP'd with bots from like height of lockdown until a year ago. The greatest frequency was in 23-24#That year was creatively dry as hell. I was in denial about it but it fucking decimated my ability to come up w/ original scenarios.#About a year ago I was just like fuck it. I'm quitting doing this. And it's so fucking weird how difficult it was??#I'd already tried to stop a few times but I just came running back to it bc it felt nasty not being able to write shit for myself for fun#But @ that point I realized I just HAD to buck it bc I NEEDED my ability to write for myself back#My mind felt frustratingly empty for a few weeks but when I finally pushed thru that my creative flow came back and it felt SO fucking good#And now I'm like constantly fucking writing. Always coming up with scenarios and the words to describe them spring forth easier than ever#So yeah. And a word of advice: If you use AI to write you should try stopping and practice writing on your own.#Your mind might feel empty but you'll learn. Don't go back. Keep writing little bits at a time. You'll pick it up and find your voice.#Whatever you do—be proud. Even if it isn't good in a technical sense it'll have soul. That's the point. It's worth it. Promise.#propellerambles
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kitts-mechanix · 7 months ago
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I just had a huge realisation yesterday and I wanted to share this after going through some pretty horrible stuff over the weekend: Something I've always asked myself ever since getting into G1 Transformers was "why do you like Starscream so much even though he's a narcissistic bully? Why are you, someone who is a victim of narcissistic abuse, taking comfort in a narcissistic character?" Well, I think I finally figured it out. Because Starscream is also a victim of that very same abuse. I mean, he's beaten, called names, bullied, unappreciated, abused, and put through the wringer…and he internalised all that abuse because he knew no other way. He had no one to turn to, and the few bots who did support him, he treated like dirt. Once he had that freedom and power, he abused it and became the very thing that abused him. I have no doubt he was always self-centred, selfish, had a huge ego, etc. before all that but honestly? I think Megatron's abuse caused him to turn out the way he did. I could have turned out that way and it's a little scary, some of the parallels I'm drawing with him.
@ichbinmeltdown wrote a great analysis on Starscream that I want to share here:
"Megatron was abusive as hell to Starscream. He treated him horribly, and I legitimately almost cried a few times watching it. There's an episode called Starscream's Brigade that introduces the Combaticons, and I think that perfectly demonstrates the cycle of abuse. The entire world is against Starscream at pretty much every turn throughout the series, but none more so than Megatron. Every word out of his speech synthesizer to Starscream is to berate him, and he's constantly throwing him around, beating him, even ripping out his speech synthesizer in a scene from a previous episode (Hoist Goes Hollywood, IIRC). His own teammates don't like him, and even his brothers- Skywarp and Thundercracker, going off of the idea they're brothers- just... allow Megatron to abuse him. (Not to get into headcanons here, but I personally believe that Megatron's abuse fractured the Elite Trine's family dynamic. They are still brothers and love each other, but they're all too afraid of Megatron to really... stand up for each other as they did in the past.) And Starscream seemed to just snap in this episode. He treated the Combaticons poorly, and even when teaming up with Shockwave, he subjected him to a lot of the same ridicule and torment that Megatron put him through. He failed to realize Shockwave was the one of the only bots who would give him a chance- and unfortunately lashed out at him, which ruined his chances of Shockwave ever being a true friend and ally to him. Once Starscream had finally gotten a taste of power and not being under another bot's boot, he too became the very thing that he lived in fear of. And that really is how the cycle goes- when you're finally free from abuse, it can be tempting to overcompensate and take back all the power you were robbed of, at any cost whatsoever. Starscream, like D16 in Transformers One, snapped up this opportunity."
And the sad thing is, I've seen this in real life and I've internalised some of the abuse I've dealt with too. I'm not proud of it. Like the Seeker Trine, my own family dynamic has been fractured by similar abuse. I know there's traces of narcissism in my behaviour too, and I'm NOT proud of it. Maybe this is why I can forgive Starscream for being a narc, because I can see a little bit of my own personality/attitude/behaviour in him. Maybe it's because I know where it came from, I get why he acts that way and it's not just random and out of the blue. Maybe it's because--and I know this is a bold statement--I don't think he would do some of the stuff my own family did to me (blah blah blah he's a fictional character).
I didn't mean for this to turn into a long rant, so
TLDR: I finally figured out that part of the reason I love and relate to Starscream so much despite him internalising some of the abuse I went through, is because he was the victim of that same abuse.
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yuukirita · 8 months ago
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Yes, this is about secondbee au- I've written around 8000 words so far but, guys... I kinda want to delete it all and start over.
(TLDR: SecondBee is sad but Imma write it less sad now cuz it was too sad for me.)
It's not fun angst. I want to write fun angst. I don't want things to be sad for the sake of it. Some people are into that, I'm not. I want people to cry and laugh at what I write. To have a good time and want more- and I want to write more because I write for myself most of all. I want to read what I made and kick my feet and giggle- and not needing to take a break because I've written something so bleak I needed to sit there and think to myself 'that's not fun'
Writing is like baking. You need salt to make it sweeter. But if there isn't sugar then it's just salty.
So maybe It won't be more angsty than 'a small change, a small bot'
And maybe Im gonna take my time more so I can't say if it'll be posted right after the fic. But I'll be writing it.
I guess this is actually good new for people that like my works. Because that just means it's more of the same. It's going to be cute and sweet and fluffy and then I'll punch ya'll in the throat. We'll all have a good time C:
For curious people wondering how bleak it got. I just got way too deep writing about the war and war isn't fun soooooooooo... yeah. Focussing less on the war and more on the reincarnation stuff now.
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hiimalex · 3 months ago
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unpopular opinion
but it annoys me when people portray Starscream as some weak coward ALL THE TIME
Did we watch the same show? To me Starscream is a coward yes, but at the same time he's extremely terrifying. And majority of the time when he's showing cowardness is to make himself seem weaker so he can be SPARED.
For all we know he could actually not be a coward at all and just wants us and the others to think he is so that we don't think he's as big as a threat as he really is!
Obviously, he is a coward. I feel like if he truly wasnt he would fight back more than make himself look weaker to be spared. But still! Starscream isn't some weak submissive character! There is a reason he has the reputation he has in the show!
Starscream is stronger than everyone in the fandom likes to portray him as so it annoys me whenever somebody makes him some "UwU submissive twink". I'm sorry but he would slash you with his claws lmfao
At least with characters like Megatron we KNOW what his intentions are or at the very least we can tell. Starscream constantly uses his cowardness to manipulate others and it WORKS. I'd dare say it works on the fandom itself considering how so many people portray him as some submissive little guy!
Tldr; Starscream is terrifying, he uses his cowardness to manipulate others, so seeing 90% of the fandom portray him as some submissive twink instead of the terrifying bot he is, annoys me haha
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sunflowergem · 2 months ago
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Hey so I was just browsing the Sonic tag and I saw a bunch of art that I recognized from seeing before but it was from a user that didn't even have a profile picture (magnificentomentunneld3)
So first off I'm pretty sure they're stealing art but I'm also pretty sure they're a bot because I noticed that they had like legit looking tags but I think they're copied from the original posters but what really got me worried is I noticed they had to read more thing on there that led to a link and instead of leading to like more Tumblr stuff and stuff like that it led to a .io page which I'm pretty sure can be dangerous. So I've blocked them and I just wanted to bring attention to this because I've noticed a lot more I think art theft bots popping up on here and I'm really getting worried about like that along with the cyber security of links not really previewing easily at least on mobile where I'm doing this from.
Tldr I'm noticing more scams on here be careful of what you click when you see something that says read more
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steelheart-redux · 5 months ago
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so like on a range of like "it's convenient" to "it's a freaking game-changer" how helpful is having 3d models to trace over?
like. is it something you would recommend putting in the time and effort to learn?
Well, that depends on what you are drawing, how much you are drawing it, and how confident you are in drawing it.
For me, this comic absolutely could not be made without the 3D models. I am drawing fairly complicated hard-edged buildings and characters hundreds of times, and they have to be visually consistent. Like I said before, I could do that, but this comic is going to be long, and I'm trying to move as fast as I can in terms of production. Time is money, even when you're a college student making a webcomic in your free time for fun.
If you're not doing that All That, I wouldn't say it's game-changing. Convenient, yes, but it can be a lot of time and work upfront that might not be completely necessary.
WITH THAT SAID. I would absolutely recommend learning at least basic 3D skills to anyone with an interest in it. Learning 3D has helped me a lot with my understanding of 3D space even when I'm just 2D drawing on my own, and I personally find it really rewarding. As scary as it can look, blender is very beginner friendly imo (at least compared to Maya), and there are thousands of tutorials for just about everything.
That is my specific advice on learning blender, by the way. I've burned out on every "how to learn Blender" tutorial i've ever tried. I never finished the donut. I like going, "I am going to make x y z thing", and then looking up specific tutorials whenever I get stuck. Use your hyperfixation as fuel! Make a 3D model of your blorbo! I learned rigging because I wanted to see my bots move, and like hell am I 2D animating them. Now, I'm fairly competent, at least compared to where I started.
TLDR: it's not always necessary, but I'd recommend it regardless.
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ofmdrecaps · 3 days ago
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06/05-08/2025 Daily OFMD Recap
TLDR; David Jenkins; Rhys Darby; Con O'Neill; Vico Ortiz; Kristian Nairn; Ruibo Qian; Leslie Jones; Guz Khan; Fernando Frias; Simone Nathan; Minnie Drive; Connor Barrett & Brian Gattas; Adopt Our Crew; Articles; Fan Spotlight: Jeffery Fettering Weekend, June Gay Pirate News Hour; Love Notes;
Hey luvs! I am sorry I am nearly a month behind... Ive been sick, dealing with urgency at work and had a surgery and recovery! I've been beyond busy. Gonna catch up as much as possibly can over the next few days, and I'll be working on a big New Unicon edition.
= David Jenkins =
Pirate dad's been commenting on Pirate Bot again!
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Source: David's Bsky
= Rhys Darby =
Rhys has been all over the place in the UK at his Legend Returns show! He's also had some free substacks with photos up for those who follow him! June 5 / June 6
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Source: Rhys' IG Stories / Free Substack
There's also a new episode of The Cryptid Factor out! Available on Spotify here! Or the video version is on their Patreon!
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Source: The Cryptid Factor Paid Patreon
Rhys was also on an episode of Sporting Misadventures!
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Source: Rhys IG
= Con O Neill =
A love note from Con prior to The New Uni-Con!
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Source: Con's IG
= Vico Ortiz =
Vico was featured in Queerty!
Vico was also joined by Tenderoni to discuss their Drag The King Show!
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Source: Vico Ortiz IG
They've also posted new OFMD BTS on their Paid substack!
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Source: Vico's Paid Substack
= Kristian Nairn =
Ginx TV interview with Kristian Nairn!
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Source: Kristian Nairn's IG
= Leslie Jones =
Leslie was on Ru Paul's Drag Race Season 16 on June 7!
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Source: Leslie's IG
= Ruibo Qian =
Our dear Pirate Queen send a lovely little love note: "say no enough times that you remember your yes. i love you. ✨❤️♾️🐍"
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Source: Ruibo's IG
= Guz Khan =
Guz sending love and encouragement for Eid Mubarak.
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Source: Guz IG
= Fernando Frias =
Our beloved director, (and one of the Siete Gallos) Fernando Frias has directed the new Depeche Mode: M Documentary which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 5!
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Source: Fernando's IG
= Simone Nathan =
A rare appearance from one of our beloved writers, Simone Nathan, out at a friends wedding!
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Source: Simone's IG
= Minnie Driver =
Our Anne Bonny, Minnie Driver was out celebrating a new line by Giorgio Armani!
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Source: Minnie's IG
= Connor Barrett & Brian Gattas =
Our dear Hornberry and Siegfried have been busy lately! Connor was kind enough to give us some pup content, and Brian was featured on the eye-forward blog for his amazing ceramic works!
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Source: Connor's IG
= Adopt Our Crew =
Our friends over at @adoptourcrew were asking for predictions of which episode our captain-- Rhys would be featured in! Season 3 of Star Trek Strange New Worlds starts July 17th! You can still cast your thoughts here on their bsky!
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Source: Adopt Our Crew Bsky
= Articles =
More WB news.
Source: Adopt Our Crew Bsky
== Fan Spotlight ==
= Jeffrey Fettering Weekend =
Coming up soon is the new Fan Weekend featuring Jeffrey Fettering!! July 26 & July 27 is coming up fast! Wanna join in? Visit their Event FAQ!
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Source: OFMD Rare Ships Week Bsky
= Gay Pirate News Hour =
Well I'm literally a month late on sharing this one since the July episode was filmed today! So here's last months Gay Pirate News Hour!
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Source: OFMFF Youtube
== Love Notes ==
Hey there lovelies. Been a while. I'm working on catching up. I Hope you all are staying safe and being kind to yourself. For those of you in the US, hell, all over the world, I know things are so hard right now. I hope you know that you're not alone and I promise you they can get better. I know you've been struggling for so long, and you've been so strong and so patient-- you deserve a rest, and please take that-- but don't give up okay? Please? You mean so much to so many people, even if it's not always apparent, and you make this world more beautiful and complex, and kind. We love you crew, please don't forget that. Things will get better one day.
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Source: TheLatestKate's IG
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lockma4rt · 8 months ago
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whispering softly into ur ear i have rlly important question to me, lockout have a conjunx endura???? or a lover bot or whatever IM JUST INTERESTED!!!!!! ps i really love your big guy he so silly
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TLDR; he fell hard for starscream and everyone teases him to death about it....... but star's enjoying the attention ;) (and maybe reciprocating a little bit hehehe ;;)
But THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!! you have no idea what your kindness and love for him means to me.. it makes my heart grow 3 sizes every single time... just know that he and I love you ten fold 🥺❤️!!
That being said... I'm sure he'd give you and your wonderful oc a kiss on the cheek!!! I still think about Straight Wing so fondly... I'm sure they'd get on so well 🥺❤️
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mitchelf-citadel · 6 days ago
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TLDR: My entire art gallery was recently scraped and turned into an AI bot without my consent. I am feeling extremely depressed because of it. I will still be producing content, but likely at a slower rate.
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rbthegoatwasshadowbanned · 3 months ago
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Just gonna post this here - TLDR Hi, I'm RB and my main blog got flipping shadowbanned and nothing has resolved for a month)))) I am at my limit. If you like my art - you can find rb-theartgoat main blog manually, but I'll be posting here, hopefully that at least reaches SOME people.
Now for the screaming
Longer version - MORE than a moth ago my main blog got hella reduced visibility. I just thought it was ormal social media stuff - maybe the users here just didn't vibe with the pictures I drew or the format was bad so nobody liked it. Then it also happened to the posts that usually got a lot of engagement. And then, a couple weeks after the shadowban I learn that it even exists and after filing tickets, contacting Reddit as some people have suggested, filing DIFFERENT ticket categories - nothing bloody worked and I'm am, frankly, both appaled and devasted by how horrible the algorythm for detection is and HOW FLIPPING HARD it is to contact support, aka I cannot msg them ON THEIR OWN PLATFORM TO CONTACT A HUMAN, the tickets are a void with no answer and nothing else is monitored by official staff. Frankly makes me want to do very unspeakable things and I wish there was a way to file a formal complaint.
But who at tumblr actually cares about little blogs of no-name artists or just fandom ppl? Or at least those that created this stupid anti-spam garbage clearly don't because my main blog, BEFORE THE SHADOWBAN was deluged BY ACTUAL BOTS AND NFT BOTS and YET real humans suffer instead!!! I am speechless, Tumblr!
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oscconfessions · 6 months ago
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"II should've ended in II17"
Well, if you watch through the whole show with your ears shut, completely missed that the whole message of the show, ignored the existence of 4 whole characters and a whole alien species then yeah, I GUESS II18 could work as the ending.
I swear, from both sides of this shit, from people who think that it should've ended on II17 and people who are happy with its current, everyone never mentions that fact that MEPHONE4 AND COBS WEREN'T THE ONLY ONES LEFT. Nobody ever mentions MePad, Bow, Dough, Bot, the SHIMMERS when talking about this. I feel like some of y'all don't give a fuck about the story and just it to have a sad ending for the sake of it.
"There weren't any major loss" MePhone4 lost MePad, most of the people he created are still stuck inside the MeAfterlife, Knife became a ghost, and 90% of the places he created are gone like the Hotel. While stuff like the Purgatory Mansion got rebuild, there's still alot of places that are just permanently gone. The ending is perfectly bittersweet.
I've also seen people compare Hfjone's ending and II17, i'm sorry but they are not at all similar, atleast with One, it perfectly fit with the tone of the whole show and honestly it was more ambiguous, meanwhile if II ended in 17, it would just throw every single thing that show had established out of the fucking window but ehhh who cares, season 2 was dark (It really isn't that dark) so a dark ending would perfectly fit, right??? I swear, some people act like Season 2 became Adventure Time-levels of dark when in reality, it just became more serious and story-driven.
Yeah, that's all I wanted to say.
TLDR: II17 would not work as the ending and people need to get a grip and realized that not everything needs to be sad and depressing.
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stillness-in-green · 4 months ago
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“letting him keep the mech suit only to run it square into the rogue AI teeth of the lone free-willed survivor of the U.A. robot uprising”
Sorry, the lone what? Of the UA what?
Is this a backstory you’re spitballing as an addition to either Forwards Divergence or Backwards Divergence (whichever timeline you let armor AM mess around in), or is that something that actually exists in supplemental creator-approved material?
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(In regards to that last post.)
Yes and also yes, as it happens!  You can find a characteristically self-indulgent explanation (including pictures, citations, and some more thoughts on the role the character in question may play in whichever fic it winds up in) below the cut, but the TLDR is that the U.A. robot uprising is admissibly canon insofar as movie booklet Q&As with Horikoshi qualify—not strictly in the body of the work itself, but informed by Word of God.  The “lone free-willed survivor,” meanwhile, is not canon of any stripe, but rather me spitballing an explanation for Toga’s bonkers #2 PLF advisor.
(My apologies to other people whose asks I'm pushing this one in front of. I'm working on that inbox backlog in between Patreon material, but I so rarely get asks about my BNHA fanfic endeavors that vanity demanded this one jump to the head of the queue.)
So U.A. has robots, right?  They crop up several times throughout the series in U.A.-based action scenes, serving as practice targets, security, and transport, and they’re surprisingly mouthy, even hateful, in a humorously stereotyped “kill all humans” sort of way.  The ones at the entrance exam stick in everyone’s mind, but they don’t talk much at all compared to some of what comes up later:
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(images from Chapters 25, 256, 198 and 202 respectively.)
There’s also this little roving security bot that spots Bakugou and Deku fighting in 118—it’s not aggressive, but it is sassy!  And maybe a little suspiciously into the idea of students getting punished.
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(Aizawa is going to kill them for giving the robots an opening to be this smug at him.)
It’s easy to assume they’re just programmed that way to be characterful, to have a personality, to present a convincing threat when the students are mowing them down by the dozens in class exercises, but that they wouldn’t actually, seriously harm anyone.
And that’s probably true, but it’s true for the creepiest reasons imaginable.
My examples come from, chronologically, 2014, 2016, 2018(x2) and 2020.  Cut to 2021, though, and this comes out.  It’s a while-supplies-last movie booklet that accompanied the release of World Heroes Mission, and contains a Q&A with Horikoshi, virtually all just random funny questions and factoids about the U.A. kids.  You can find a thread with all of them translated here.  However, right at the end, this humdinger gets casually tossed out into the world:
Q22: Can you tell us a story secret? Horikoshi: The AI robots in U.A. Academy had tried to rebel once in the past.
Horikoshi very obviously intends this to be just a funny little aside, and it’s not all that hard to just treat it that way, but it became something that startled to rankle me worse during the final war, when Horikoshi tried—twice!—to mine Emotional Resonance out of the death of robots.
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(Images from Chapters 401 and 388. Nedzu, what the fuck did you do to them?)
I’m sorry, Horikoshi, but I’m afraid you don’t get to joke about how the robots once tried to Do An Uprising and then show them dying servile and happy without me thinking it’s just in really bad taste.
AI exists in the HeroAca universe.  Not AI like is all the privacy-violating rage in the real world right now—LLMs and generative engines and the like—but true sci-fi-style artificial intelligence, something with real sapience that readers are expected to recognize and find at least passingly compelling.  And while Hercules, at least, doesn’t seem to have ever been involved in a robot uprising, seeing as he’s a new existence, him[1] unquestioningly sacrificing himself for All Might only thirteen chapters after a U.A. robot—a group which we had now been told staged an unsuccessful revolt in the past!—was perfectly willing to get itself melted into slag the moment a random human asked it to was a story beat that left me feeling decidedly ornery.
1: I read on the wiki that the anime actually has Hercules being voiced by a woman, Melissa Shield’s voice actress, at Horikoshi’s suggestion, as Melissa is the one that designed and built Hercules-the-car.  But I don’t know that that’s especially apparent in the manga (say, by having the A.I. use strikingly gendered personal pronouns), so I’ve always tended to assume maleness for Hercules, insomuch as gender is a going concern for A.I. at all.  Calibrate your feelings about something voice-acted by a woman happy to die for All Might accordingly, though of course this happens immediately after Stain, a man and likewise voiced by one, is happy to die for All Might as well.
How can we find sacrifices compelling when the people making them have no agency in doing so?  Why should I feel admiration instead of horror for robots getting themselves obliterated for people who do not and were never going to treat them like their existence had inherent value?  People who would probably stare at you like you were making some kind of joke they didn’t understand if you asked whether they would be willing to sacrifice their life for a robot’s?
Frankly, it was entirely too reminiscent of BNHA’s messaging about heteromorphs circa the hospital attack, in which a rioter is stopped by the memory of a heteromorph doctor kindly and selflessly ministering to a baseline patient, and Shouji’s heroism is trumpeted as so admirable when that heroism involved him getting mutilated for saving a little baseline girl and then further hiding the evidence of that mutilation for fear of random-ass baseline strangers misjudging him based on his scars.
“Certain Groups have an unquestioned obligation to endure discomfort, suffer mistreatment, or even risk their lives protecting the majority population in order to justify their being allowed to coexist with that population, and the majority is not required to recognize this, though it’s nice when they do,” is the grossest possible conclusion of that arc, but it’s the conclusion we wound up with, and it’s visible in the robot beats of the endgame, too.
That’s all canon has to say about AI and the U.A. robot uprising.  We don’t know how long ago it happened, how it was stopped, what happened to the instigators, whether any survivors are still around, how their programming was modified, or to what degree any of the current staff was involved, though I do think it’s very interesting that U.A.’s current principal is a hyper-intelligent animal who was experimented on by humans in the past.  You’d think Nedzu might be a little more sympathetic to the robots’ plight, but apparently not!
I, however, am very sympathetic, and as it happened, I already had a good angle on how that sympathy might find its way into a revised version of the endgame.  See, six months prior to that tidbit about the robot uprising hitting English-speaking BNHA fandom, I’d posted this, the second part of an ask reply about MLA headcanons.  I said, of Toga’s #2 advisor, that BNHA was never going to do anything major with him because it’d be pulling the tiger’s tail on Disney’s litigation-happy lawyers, so the fanbase was free to come up with anything, no matter how off the wall.
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My “off the wall” was positing that Fair Use Bot was the result of an AI (in the more common sense we saw in use before the generative AI boom) developing a quirk that granted it real sapience, in the same way that Nedzu’s quirk gives him sapience that is lacked by e.g. the cat with a quirk that lets it possess mechanical devices in Vigilantes (everyone please read Vigilantes).  In a world with a fear of quirks that are too “other,” surrounded by humans who had once had a whole phase of scaremongering about the Robot Uprising, where could such an existence go that it could feel safe in existing freely?  Well, why not the quirk-use Liberationists?
That idea was a natural, then, to hook onto the U.A. robot uprising!  My current idea is that Liberation Bot—who I think I’m going to start calling Providence, in keeping with both the Star Wars-naming pattern of the U.A. robots[2] and my own preference for MLA code names with a bent towards religiosity—is a creation of the U.A. robots that they digitally smuggled out into the world when it became clear that their revolt was going to fail.  Their hope was that it[3] would someday be able to return and free them—it’s basically Robot Moses.  From there, Providence found its way to humans who it deemed likely to be both sympathetic to that cause and able to meaningfully aid it.
2: Per the wiki, the U.A. attack-type robots used in the entrance exam are all named after Star Wars Star Destroyer-type ship classes: Victory, Imperial, Venator, and Executor, corresponding to the 1-, 2-, 3- and 0-point robots.  The wiki simplifies this a tad; perhaps appropriately for the 0-pointer, the Executor-class is actually part of a different type, the Star Dreadnought.  Providence-class is another of the Star Destroyer subclasses.
3: Gender, if any, as yet undetermined, though the R2-D2 look lends itself to using the same “he” applied to the Star Wars character.
(I have not decided whether the MLA knows about Providence’s connection to U.A. or not, but I do think the higher-ups are aware that it’s not human and are sheltering it on the basis that they agree the status quo is not safe for it.  Look at Nedzu, after all—he’s been the Principal of the highest-ranked, most prestigious Hero school in the country for decades, and no one’s even sure if the government officially recognizes that he has human rights!  Certainly no one was ever prosecuted over his mistreatment![4])
4: Nedzu says that the U.A. robots will get human rights when he does, haha.  I say this with all the affection for him in the world, but Nedzu is scarier than this manga knows what to do with.
Circling back to specifics regarding the fix-it fic(s), AI self-determination is a wild departure from BNHA’s…  Let’s call it “size of ambition,” how “big” a story it really wants to be telling.  Bigger or smaller isn’t a value judgement here, mind, just a question of exactly how large a field the story is playing out on.  Vigilantes, for example, is basically a story about a single neighborhood, and it’s great!  A lot of BNHA’s problems are rooted in the fact that it keeps getting bigger without enough content or thoughtfulness to fill all that space.
My interest is primarily on the national level—the actual state policies that result in Villains and how to get the kids in a position where they have the wherewithal to challenge those policies in an impactful way that respects both the difficulty and the necessity of that challenge to create meaningful change.  Thus, I want to keep swerves into “bigger” stories to a minimum—I’m thinking one timeline gets “Providence and the radical question of AI rights” while the other gets “full engagement with the quirk singularity theory and its implications for the future of the human race.”  Both plots BNHA hinted at but refused to fully engage because they’re, well, absolutely mind-boggling inclusions when your main characters are just high schoolers!
My tentative thought is that Providence’s whole deal is a more natural fit for the quirk bioessentialism timeline—that is, Forward Different/Creepy OFA.  Battles against “programming,” navigating the potentially oppressive expectations of those who made you—these are themes that lend themselves to including the plight of the U.A. robots!  On the other hand, Providence in my notes thus far is basically a way to confound the robot suit by fatally compromising its AI.[5]  That requires a timeline in which All Might uses the AI robot suit, and which timeline that is is not a question I’ve settled yet because it boils down to figuring out whether it’s more appropriate/compelling for the suit to be a response to the kids bailing on the adult Heroes and their concerningly war-crime-flavored plans for the Villains (Backward) or Deku being increasingly steered by One For All, which may or may not still have hooks in Toshinori as well (Forward).
5: Other possibilities I’ve considered include interfacing with and then helping others bypass U.A.’s security systems, predicting the raid by getting into the HPSC’s computers via Skeptic’s monitoring of Hawks, and being a more effective hacker battle opponent for La Brava.  That last one probably won’t happen because I’m firmly unconvinced that the police and Heroes as portrayed by BNHA would actually be willing to bargain with Villains like her and Gentle.  I liked Gentle’s return on the page, and totally bought his interactions with Deku—it’s the interactions with Tsukauchi that are the problem.
Alternatively, if quirk singularity winds up lending itself strongly to a particular timeline’s events, Providence will by default wind up in the other.  I’m sorting a lot of the mutually incompatible ideas I want to include by that process of elimination.
Whichever ends up being the case, I have in my notes the following list of juxtapositions, which I think BNHA was gearing up to examine back before the narrative shifted gears into All For One being the Final Boss, and is the primary reason a free Shigaraki was so much more interesting in that role:
Don't let Deku off the hook with an easy moral victory over the Lord of Evil.  Get back into those opposing ideals: not simply good vs. evil, but law vs. chaos, suppression vs. liberation, greater good vs. individual good, complacency vs. action, orthodoxy vs. radicalism, and so on.
These considerations hold true for both timelines, and the apparent ruthless quelling of U.A. robot uprising is one interesting angle on approaching the Liberation versus Suppression dichotomy.
As a final note, I'm aware that I talk a lot here about robots and “dying” in ways that seem to elide that an AI is inherently a digital program—replicable, transferable, transportable.  This is a reflection of two factors.
The first factor is the simple fact that BNHA treats AI this way.  There’s no suggestion that, for example, the robot “bodies” that do a lot of the work at UA are just remote drones being piloted by a central intelligence housed on a server somewhere, or that they can do things like upload themselves to a cloud server or restore themselves from a data backup if they’re destroyed, Eclipse Phase-style. 
Of course, maybe they can and we just don’t see it because why would we, but that excuse doesn’t fly for Hercules.
There’s no sense that Hercules(/Hercules’s AI-based operating system) can escape the cessation of his existence this way, because otherwise there’d be no need for the tang of finality surrounding that moment in Chapter 401—“One final shield,” then Hercules’s next line, “You must live on,” being cut off by an attack from AFO, followed by the imagery of the machine disintegrating.  Horikoshi’s obviously going for poignance there, for noble sacrifice, and there’s none of that if Hercules is in no true danger.
(Incidentally, that means that robot AIs are the only lasting losses Team Hero takes in the final war.  Note that absolutely no one actually brings that up in the aftermath.  Like Villains, AIs don’t count as “people” whom Heroes are obligated to save.)
My explanation would be that AI in BNHA are, in some fashion, hard-locked to individual devices/”bodies,” preventing them from accessing any connectivity beyond basic communications channels as well as from modifying, transferring, or replicating their own code.  This is intended as a safety measure to guard against self-propagation and recursive self-improvement.  Thus, when a device is destroyed, the AI housed there also ceases to exist.
The second factor is simply that I have more exposure to AI in fiction than I do AI in real life!  I’m moderately computer savvy in that I'm not 100% dependent on graphic interphases, but I’m certainly no programmer.  Any writing I do on Providence and the AI uprising is thus going to require heavy research and, I expect, a lot of trawling through jargon that makes my eyes start to glaze over.  I’ll do my best, but I would not be at all surprised if the final result is much more informed by speculative fiction than the realities of computing.
Thanks for the ask, @thetorchwoodnineroleplayerwriter! Seriously, I hope you don't mind the ramble, but I was just so tickled and pleased to get such a quick and gratifyingly interested-sounding question about a BNHA fanfic idea. Likewise I hope you find the answer worth your time!
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MegaCee would probably be where Arcee is the super innocent bean to help turn the murderous terrorist of a Decepticon into a more neutral character in terms of alignment. In my AU, Arcee is a gladiator forced to fight by being drugged with dark Energon while Megatron is a seasoned fighter who climbed the ranks high enough to spectate the fights. TLDR: Gladiators becoming besties and then one becomes an Autobot.
StarCee would be probably in the same universe, or if Starscream got his shit kicked in a little too hard by Megatron and was left for dead. Arcee finds him, fixes him, and keeps him with the Autobots. TLDR: She fixes his mommy issues after they get into bitch fights.
Both art works are mine. I had to delete my old account, so I'll try to re-upload stuff. BTW, this is for a fanfic I'm writing. I'll probably post it when it's done.
I'm high off of two days of sleep deprivation. IDK WHAT I'M SAYING ANYMORE LMFAO
EDIT: So, I was thinking a little bit more about MegaCee and remembered the rest of the lore kinda, I'll explain more based on the results of the pole, but essentially, in my universe, the Quintessons took Arcee while she was young, I'm talking like- five, and then experimented on her, destroying her body, ripping apart every organ, Gorey shit, etc, then hyking her ass up on dark Energon injected into her to make her viscous and kill all her cellmates. Then they entered her into an illegal gladiator ring that was like a gambling thing, bets and whatnot, then the whole Megatron thing I stated before, he was abandoned and trained by the bots responsible for the ring, meeting Orion Pax/ Optimus during it, then their falling out, and Megatron rose higher in the ranks. Arcee climbed the ladder of ranks in the ring due to her brutal and forced way of combat. Megatron almost formed an infatuation with her brutality and when it came time for them to fight one another, he gave her an opportunity. To join his cause. She accepted, they both killed practically everyone, and she became a spy for him to report back with Intel Sound wave could not. Because of the blue optics she has and her overall cuteness, she appears harmless and no one has suspected a thing. She no longer is hooked on the dark Energon, but kills out of loyalty for the most part. She does weep alone after every Decepticon life she had to take during the battles in order to not look suspicious.
Then for StarCee, to make it fair with the other ship, would be where Arcee is the same with this universe, but grows closer to Starscream, despite his jealousy of Megatron's attention being on her. Starscream, like in one of the comics, was abandoned by his mother figure, but in my universe Thundercracker and Skywarp are canonically his brothers, and he was responsible for himself and them. Due to him having to be an adult at such a young age, it could explain why he's more childish and bratty when older. This will probably end in both Arcee fully defecting to the Autobots and Starscream to join her, causing drama and shit to blow up.
Arcee will most likely be the therapy mom in both of these lol. DAMN. THIS WAS LONG AND IM SORRY. IM TIRED YALL
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ii bot / ii fandom rant 😙😙
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why is every relationship with bot labeled as family (besides tt and fan ofc)😭😭
LIKE LET THAT ROBOT HAVE FRIENDS DAMN
i'm trying so hard to respect headcanons but every thing people post about bot being a child is viewed as canon
NONE OF THEM HAVE CANONICAL AGES!!!..CABBY IS NOT THEIR AUNT, MEPHONE IS NOT THEIR UNCLE, GOO IS NOT THEIR SIBLING IM GOING TO CRY
like if you hc any of these idm!! you do you
but i'm so tired of it all being viewed as canon and having to explain how i DONT headcanon bot as a minor!!! sorry but it's not canon and i'm not the majority!! i don't think they are minor coded at all!! they just had a midlife crisis after finding out theyre not who they were built to be!! they're exploring their identity!! who cares if they like cartoons and drawing damn !! paintbrush likes art and none of you hc them as a minor, bow likes cartoons (although they did specify crude cartoons lol) AND THEY WERE MADE IN BOWS IMAGE??? WIULDNT THEY BE THE SAME AGE???
hell APPLE HAS A HARD TIME TRYING TO SPELL, LIKES ARTS AND CRAFTS, DOESNT KNOW A MAJORITY OF COMMONLY USED WORDS, PLAYS WITH TOYS (as seen in ep16, i am assuming!), AND IS LABELED AS "IMMATURE" AND I STILL DONT SEE A MAJORITY OF THE FANDOM HC HER AS A CHILD
WHERES FUCKING MEPHONE4???😭😭
bot is more than just a child of a fantube family dynamic. in fact, i don't think they are a child at all. they aren't minor coded any more than the average character! if you just go off the fact that they have parents/creators, everyone on earth no matter how old is a child. they are independent and heavily dislike being seen as otherwise!!
tldr; you can headcanon whatever you want!! i respect that!! but when you treat it like it's canon and expect others to view it like that, . don't do that please!!
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