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@rosewind2007 Tooth stuff!

My new teeth pieces. Craved, cast, polished and set to leather all by hand 🦷

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wanted to design ARTs logo and uniform and decided to throw a secunit in there

[ID: a drawing of murderbot from the murderbot diaries. it is an asian person of average build wearing a light blue jumpsuit with many pockets. there are two patches, one for the pansystem university of mihira and new tideland depicting a sun and a palm tree, and one for the perihelion spaceship, which is the text ‘perihelion’ orbiting a blue planet with two stars dotting the i’s. it has steel toed boots and a beauty mark under its right eye, and looks vaguely uncomfortable. end ID.]

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I love Nicky's expression. Actually, I love Joe's, too, just as much. It's just that Joe's is a little less ambiguous. Even though now that I think about it, is it more a promise than a challenge or just a memory? Ah, these two! I love them.

if you try to run me through with your blade i'll just pull it in deeper until we're face to face and kiss you on the mouth. with tongue.

#kaysanova

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@nkp1981

for anyone that’s having a bad day, here are pictures of animals sniffing flowers

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artificial condition

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The Murderbot Diaries Tumblr Community

There is a Murderbot Diaries Tumblr community now. As far as I've been able to tell, you join by having an admin add you to the invite list. I'm the admin. If you want to join, let me know and I'll add you.

I've sent invites to the authors of a couple pages of recent posts in the tag, and some of the authors of the posts that show up as 'Top' vs sorting the tag chronologically. Invites to date have been somewhat random - there's nothing personal if you haven't had one yet. Just let me know and you'll get one.

It does not allow me to add side blogs. I think once I invite a person, they get to choose which side blog they use to post/comment in the community. So you'll have to send me your main for me to send the invite, but after that you can interact using whichever side blog you want to use. (I think! I'm not an expert on this.) This also means if you post murderbot-tagged stuff from your side blog, I may well have tried to add you and been denied. A solid quarter of my attempts to invite people were rebuffed by the system.

Once the system allows co-admins, I intend to add some so this isn't a one-person show. I'll have more to say on this when I've figured out what a Tumblr community admin does other than issue invites. A lot of this is still in development by Tumblr, including the ability to have more than one admin.

Rules are as per Tumblr (obviously). I would ask that shipping/relationship/romantic-themed posts be tagged with the ship in question so people who blacklist those topics will have their blacklisting work.

#the murderbot diaries #TMBD

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Oh wow, wonderful!

Ex-templar Nicky is done!

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[ID: Digital fanart of Nicky from the Old Guard. He is standing facing forward, holding a completely white sword that is shattering at the end of the blade. The hand holding the sword is armored and his other hand is bare. In his bare hand he holds a dark pink flower against his chest with a golden halo around it. He is wearing armor similar to Templars in Dragon Age: Inquisition that is painted a heavily textured grey to make the metal look old. He is wearing a cloak over his armor that is painted with textures in orange, purple, and gold. The bottom of the cloak fans out and resembles the outside edge of fire in coloring. The cloak has very small details in thin, gold lines. His expression is sad with a smear of blood across the right side of his cheek, crossing over his nose and up onto the left side of his forehead. The background is dark green with spots of lighter green and gold and outlines of plants. End ID]  

#the old guard

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Made me laugh.

Can I say something a little controversial

#funny #star trek #spirk

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My writing is always worse. Most of this is an illusion.

I'm looking at the first draft I'm writing now and comparing it to a fully revised finished version.

I'm looking at a later contribution to a fandom I've been in for a few years and my ideas feel stale or borrowed. OR I'm making my first contribution to a fandom I haven't read widely in and am probably saying the same thing everyone else said in their first takes.

As I write more and become more skilled at it, I see my errors more clearly and quickly.

IQ declines with age. In addition to the simple passage of time, I have had several issues over the years that are known to decrease intelligence/mental ability: depression, abuse, cancer, and what is probably long COVID.

So. Like. Yeah, it may legitimately be getting worse. But my dad had brain cancer and having to excise a big chunk of his brain made him dumber, but I still want him to live and enjoy his life. It would be silly for him to end it because he's not as sharp as he used to be. Whether my writing is better or worse, I enjoy doing it and my readers seem to enjoy reading it. I'm going to keep doing it.

please please please please reblog if you’re a writer and have at some point felt like your writing is getting worse. I need to know if I’m the only one who’s struggling with these thoughts

#writing

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Considering I just finished tmbd I figured I should show the drawings of Murderbot I did

Not fully sure about these designs but I like them.

Some thoughts behind the design:

• I (and my dad who got me into the series) think that mb should be fully androgynous considering it is an entirely sexless/genderless being.

• In book one it wouldn’t have much hair (I’m fairly sure it says it has short hair, but I drew it as a buzz cut because it’s what came to mind and I think it looks right.) It also has thinner eyebrows which is another detail it mentions in.. one of the books, can’t remember at this moment.

• Book two has much fluffier hair but shaved sides. Not sure what made me think of this design, it’s just how I always imagined mb

• One thing I’m not too happy about this design is that in my head mb shouldn’t have any super defining features (it would have more post ART messing around with its form but still) which I don’t think I executed very well.

anyways I’ve ranted about this enough for one post

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shuttle family moments

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Love these.

i am not immune to stories in which characters who have endured harsh, empty existences become absolutely transformed by someone’s sincere love for them and learn to live

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"why are people suddenly saying kink isn't always sexual" hello! you seem to have picked up on something that is actually de facto considered true in IRL kink scenes and often trotted out as one of the basic foundational truths of kink in educational contexts (i.e. beginners' workshops, it'll be in guides for first-timers at dungeons, etc). come take my hand and let me introduce you to the vast and wonderful world of IRL kink.

"kink," contrary to what a lot of internet-only kinksters seem to think, is not referencing your relationship to a concept--it's referencing the concept itself. for example, "bondage" in this context is not referring to "being turned on by tying someone up/being tied up," it's referring to the concept of being tied up/tying someone up itself. this is one of the most common kinks you'll see people playing with in entirely nonsexual contexts--most rope groups have at least a handful of players who are asexual or entirely sex-repulsed, for example. at a lot of rope play sessions, sexual activity will be banned entirely & you'll generally be expected to not show signs of sexual arousal while in that space. because it's not the space for that--sexual play parties are their own thing.

so what makes something a kink vs. a "normal" interest, if it's not a sexual aspect? mostly social stigma. the group of interests considered "kinks" have developed a shared umbrella due to a shared societal pathologization of those interests in similar ways, and one of the ways that pathology manifests is by considering those interests fundamentally sexual. there is absolutely nothing wrong with having a sexual dimension to your kink, to be clear--but society sees sex as inherently disgusting, and sexualization is frequently weaponized to pathologize all kinds of people.

portraying interest in domination/submission as inherently sexual, for example, means those explicitly navigating consensual d/s play are relegated to the realm of "the bedroom" and signifiers of their relationship (i.e. a collar) are considered "obscene" and not fit to exist in public--even when equivalent signifiers of vanilla lifestyles are allowed and not considered obscene, i.e. a wedding ring. if you portray an interest in roleplaying as a dog as inherently sexual, it means anyone roleplaying as a dog in public is subjecting the public to nasty, perverted sex, it can be classified as obscene, you can arrest people for barking and wearing leashes even if they are deriving zero sexual pleasure from it whatsoever and are not exposing themselves or harassing anyone.

why are most kinks expressed sexually to some degree, or have a sexual dimension to them? because sexually active adults tend to enjoy sex. i don't know how else to explain this, genuinely. if you are a person who experiences sexual arousal and sexual attraction, then you will often be aroused by your interests in a sexual context.

like, i am really into fandom. i love a lot of different things about fandom. one of the things i love about fandom is that it's horny; i'm a big enthusiast of smut, horny cosplay, et cetera and so on. but that doesn't mean that i don't like fandom in completely non-horny contexts, or that my interest in fandom is always sexual and can never be separated from sex. just because i cosplay erotically doesn't mean that i don't also cosplay in other contexts entirely. cosplay turns me on, and i also love cosplaying at conventions and for entirely non-horny reasons.

kink is the same. sometimes the exact same person is both turned on by petplay and interested in it nonsexually. this is actually like... really common, it's not even just "sometimes," i would say it applies to the vast majority of IRL kinksters active in my local scene, and i would hazard a guess that this isn't a major outlier, it's fairly common in scenes across the world. but if you can understand "i like cosplaying, and sometimes i'll cosplay at a convention, and sometimes i'll cosplay for sex, and sometimes i'll cosplay for fun alone in my room, and sometimes i'll cosplay to jack off, and sometimes i'll cosplay for money, and none of these are The Only Reason I Like Cosplay, and sometimes when i cosplay i will do it in a way that only includes some of these reasons and not the others at all," it shouldn't be too hard to apply the same reasoning to kink.

anyway, trying to relegate "kink" to only and solely refer to "this set of stigmatized interests and relationship dynamics, but only in reference to sex specifically" is closing the barn door after the horses are gone. sorry y'all but the kink community developed in response to medical pathologization and severe social stigma. there's no post-hoc way to turn it into an ontological classification of some form--kink is messy and abstract as a category because it isn't a category based in, like, scientific observation or ontological meanings of words. it's a category based in "we think these people are freaks and we need a diagnosis for their freakishness" lol. the forcible sexualization of every aspect of kink is part of the initial classification of this loose social realm as "fetish" and/or "paraphilia." sex is not evil or scary or bad but equally the structures doing the pathologization do consider sex to be evil and that's not something you can just ignore when discussing how sex is utilized rhetorically in these discussions.

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These are fake and misinformation (other than maybe the rock one - I'm not sure about that one, but the others are not products of Google's AI chatbot).

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lol more fanart for @themoonmothwrites 's fic

#murderathin #the murderbot diaries

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A pet peeve I share, yes.

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Murderbot again! This time without armor. It's watching media with ART :3 I'm not 100% sure how I wanna draw MB, but this is good, for now

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