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springloadedcarp · 10 months

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today, i was driving my spouse and i across the city to meet up with my family for dinner. unintentionally, i went down to a major stroad that is finally seeing some revitalization. i’ve driven down it alone plenty of times — usually when i’m heading to Braum’s to get us some 10pm milkshakes— but never been down it with them in tow.

so, as we make the turn at the stop sign and it clicks my autopilot off, i pat their thigh and start sputtering out a “look look look look look!”

my spouse— who doesn’t care about city planning/urban design, but listens to my ramblings because they know it makes me happy— looks up from whatever TikTok they were watching to peer out the window.

“look!” i say again. “they put in some protected bike lanes! they’re painted and have the barriers along the edge so idiot drivers can’t cross over and hurt a cyclist. and look!”

i point to the way the bike lane snakes back and around a newly installed bus stop. “they’ve installed actual bus stops now! i mean, i wish there was a bus lane so it wouldn’t halt the flow of traffic and create the potential for assholes in a rush to whip around a bus and endanger lives, but it’s a start and that’s a lot around here, y’know?”

we continue the drive, and my spouse endures my genuine excitement as i spot a newly-etched biking path and more bus stops. and then, just as quickly as it started, it comes to an end. a brief flicker of hope that reconnects to the concrete jungle.

but for those few fleeting moments, there was a healthy show of progression in an otherwise stubborn, rigid environment. and it filled me with immense joy.

as for my spouse, we had a discussion about the hostile design of the bus stop benches that we’d like to see undone eventually, and then we returned to our normal drive routine. i, the helmsperson, and they, the tiktok player with the volume high enough for me to hear/process it.

and idk, it was a neat little moment. :)

#me rambling #i geek out about urban design #bus stops and bike lanes #I wanted to make a cute reference like #or maybe bus lanes and bike stops #but then I decided against it #uhh #anyway #hope you enjoyed this little word vomit #daily glimpse

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hychlorions · 17 days

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i wanted to see jealous klavier (,,>﹏<,,)

#klapollo #klavier gavin #apollo justice #ace attorney #.png #and also ☝️ i wanted to see an apollo that's wholeheartedly into him. only two of these faces were intended to look objectively cute LOL #if you look close enough there's like two references to things i've been watching lately LOL #mainly cherry magic and apothecary diaries #been reading manga a lot recently... it's taking me back to the idea that i can make a klapollo dj...... hm

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scificrows · 10 months

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Okay, my brain refuses to think about anything other than Murderbot, so I looked at every use of the word "friend[s]" in TMBD and... created some pie charts. Normal human activities.

Some Thoughts™ I had while putting this together (under the cut):

In All Systems Red, Murderbot notes that the PresAux crew are all close friends (twice! and goes on to explain their internal relationships which I think is very cute). This is pretty much the only use of 'friends' in ASR, except for when Murderbot says that SecUnits can't be friends with each other.

It seems that this may be one of the first times Murderbot has ever really been around a group of friends before? Murderbot notes that this is not the norm for its contracts and admits that the fact that they are all friends and the way they interact with each other make it actually enjoy that contract (before!!!! the hostile attack, so it already enjoys this contract before they start seeing it as a person etc ghghhhh). [Inference: Friendship seems enjoyable.]

The first character that calls Murderbot its friend is ART in Artificial Condition. Murderbot immediately refutes this (and then goes on to call ART its friend to its clients for the rest of the book). [Inference: Maybe ART is Murderbot's friend. And maybe that is... agreeable]

Rogue Protocol has more than twice as many instances of the word 'friend' as any of the other novellas. Why? Miki. Friendship and its implications for non-humans are a central theme because Miki is friends with everyone. Murderbot initially scoffs at the notion that Miki and Miki's humans are friends. At the end of the book, after witnessing how desperately Don Abene tried to stop Miki from trying to save them, and her grief after its death, Murderbot has to admit that she had in fact been Miki's friend. [Inference: Humans can be friends with bots and can sincerely care about them]

In Exit Strategy, Murderbot tentatively uses the word "friends" for its humans for the first time (several times actually). It questions whether it can actually call them its friends or not and later realizes that it had been afraid what admitting that the humans are its friends would do to it. At the end of the book, Mensah tells Murderbot the PresAux crew are its friends, which is the first time a human has directly said that to it (at least on-page). [Inference: Humans can and want to be Murderbot's friends]

In Network Effect, Murderbot seems to be more habituated to the word 'friend', confidently calling ART and Ratthi its friends, like it is no longer just trying the concept on unsure if it fits. There are many instances in which other characters refer to MB as ART's friend or the other way around and Murderbot's humans refer to Murderbot as their friend several times. Generally, there seems to be less hesitancy, because yes, all of them are Murderbot's friends, why wouldn't they be. [Inference: SecUnits can have friends. This SecUnit has friends. They care about it a lot.]

Conclusion: The Murderbot Diaries tell the story of a construct that does not seem to consider the possibility of friendship for itself and is fine with that - until it accidentally starts caring a little too much and suddenly more and more people annex it as a friend (ew) to the point where it can no longer deny that this is happening and has to begrudgingly admit that yes, it has friends now and maybe that is actually not a bad thing.

#the murderbot diaries #murderbot #𓄿 #hi i'm READY to write a thesis about murderbot i am having way too much fun with this #i created a pretty excel spreadsheet and everything #i don't know why i did this but now i can look at them while i think about this more! so i figured i'd share them haha #i didn't count uses of 'friendly' but special shoutout to when MB is all alone in its cold cubicle missing 20% of its body mass #and starts putting on a show because 'the friendly noise would keep it company' 😭😭#i feel sick thinking about murderbot all alone on its own not knowing what its like to have friends watching media for 'the friendly noise'#also YES okay i wanted to make a point about miki there but i just #couldn't bring myself to talk about that more so... yeah #also uhhh this data is very subjective #i didn't count particularly ironic uses of 'friend' and generally did not count every instance of friend and sometimes it was a hard call #also i probably shouldn't have counted the times murderbot refered to drones or secsystems as its friends (often after hacking them)#but murderbot does seem to care about them and shows kindness and respect and sometimes points out that a system is friendly #so while i don't think MB means “friend” in the same way referring to them as when it refers to ART for instance #i still think its CUTE and also kinda funny how many times that happened so i decided to keep those!!!#but yeah take my data with a grain of salt lol

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puppyeared · 2 months

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i like him

#somebody needs to keep me 8 metres away at all times or else ill start chewing on him #i just want everyone to know if i end up making a character who happens to resemble harvey in any shape or form #it probably wasnt a coincidence 😐and it will happen again #if i remember maybe ill try getting stardew when it goes on sale.. my friend showed me her farm and she named her chicken after doja cat #or maybe it was nikki minaj i cant remember. and she also said smth about monsters and passing out if you stay out after a certain hour #idk how accurate tht is all i know is the funny fucked up grandpas bed #i read somewhere that harveys supposed to be in his early to mid thirties and i dont have a problem with it but i think itd be very funny #if hes actually younger than he looks hes just a med school postgrad lmao. idk how well that headcanon would hold up since ive #never played the game and idk how often ppl talk about his age or if itsjust an implied thing. i just think its really really funny #im trying to get into the habit of drawing poses so im using reference images to try and build up muscle memory #i found some cute pictures of two ppl playing by the sea shore and it reminded me of xin and sailor so im gonna draw em like that #i havent drawn em in so long..... maybe i should update xins reference since i changed their lore quite a bit #myart #my art #doodles #stardew valley #stardew #sdv #sdv harvey #kinda wanna see him whimper a little bit. as a treat

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sysig · 7 months

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Ellen McLain’s commentary from my trivia playthrough

#She's so cute <3 #WPP #Portal #Ellen McLain #If you haven't played through the audio commentary I would Absolutely recommend it it is So fun #I clicked out of curiosity - kind of just expecting like a movie's audio commentary y'know? Like a video that highlighted specific scenes #No it's just the whole game again but with trivia pop-ups! I love that!!#It reminded me so much of like trivia track or the pop up fun facts from special editions of movies I would watch as a kid #But you can play through them!! You have to click on them and they spin! I love that!!!#I always love hearing the design and development process - fascinating how the playtesters reacted to this new game!#We take it for granted now but yeah I imagine it would've been very confusing at the time #And I was like ''Well it was such a small team and Ms. McLain was such a large part of it - surely she'll have a few bubbles?''#She does lol - as soon as I got to her first one (it was a slow burn! They buried the lead with her lol I'm already invested!) I had to go #I saved-quit the game out of sheer excitement and giddiness lol I had to sleep on it before I was ready to come back #It is so cool to hear her natural voice ah <3 And the kinds of direction she was given! Other bubbles also talk about her vocal direction :)#Very cool! I wonder what TTS they used for reference :0 #But to hear her real laugh without the audio processing over and and she still sounds like GLaDOS! I mean of course she does but just jfdksl #That's /her/ laugh! They share a laugh! It's a very similar laugh!!#Not to mention her talking about wanting to play and just fdskalfd they clearly did such a good job with her performance and ahhh #It's too cute it's all too cute sharing a room with GLaDOS while her voice actor talks about making a cake to share with her friends stopppp #I am so enamoured <3 #I also took a bunch of screenshots of GLaDOS still shit-talking while she was being destroyed lol #Actually beat the ending in one try this time :P I ran out of time the last time pfft #But now I've beaten it twice in as many days :D Although I did start it the first time several days ago - but I beat it again quickly!#Has me all the more itching to replay 2 ♪#WPVG

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catocappuccino · 6 months

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He got a sweater WITH A DOG ON IT?! So happy and joyous

#just to inform you... I can draw N unless I can't. The way I do changes nearly all the time I need to make a design sheet for him or smth 😭#this is a doodle from 2 days ago didn't want to post it at first but honestly he is so cute looking here I need to share him with the world #don't be fooled by his sweet looks tho he will frikken murder you if he wants to. just you wait.#murder drones got me out of an artblock but did something to my artstyle too like what happened (what only drawing robots for 2 months #gay does to an artist) (NAH BUT WAIT TILL YOU SEE MY FIRST MD FANART it'll be funny) (it was of Uzi [ofc] and I got her design wrong on so #many levels remember to use more references than one render from the wiki kids)#okay time for the actual tags now #serial designation n #n murder drones #murder drones n #murder drones #my art #have a nice 24 hours and ONLY 24 hours. The rest of your hours shall be filled with misery and pain. /(serial designation) J

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artyfartyliz · 3 months

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my favourite glass house having stone throwing girlie

#i want to study her #starkid #hatchetfield #hatchetverse #stephanie lauter #npmd #nerdy prudes must die #the t shirt is both a reference to the band and also a description of her #steph lauter #lautski #i tried to make her Round Shapes because i think it’s cute if like #pete is angular and she’s roumnd

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doodleodds · 1 year

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Happy Valentines, Akira. Happy Valentines, Asshole.

If you can’t read what Akechi’s secondary inner-dialogue says cause I obscured it too much behind his regular dialogue, here’s a transcription in panel order: Hello, you fucking- Ah- Hello, Akira! Fuck off, why should I tell you- Just a soda- there’s a new flavor.

I don’t want your shitty gift. Oh- haha! You’re so sweet.

I hope I choke. They’re lovely, thank you.

Like hell. Likewise. There’s no way it’s just a coincidence. Still though, it’s a funny coincidence.

#p5 #akeshu #akechi goro #kurusu akira #wow- me?? posting a valentines comic... actually on?? valentines????? wack. absolutely wack #it's a short one! I purposefully tried to keep it short. it was a challenge and it still ended up being 3 pages. but i blame my canvas size #also in case u can't see what akira is holding out to akechi: theyre chocolate covered strawberries on sticks!#i saw them irl and was like oh god i want those. i am going to project that feeling on my favorite characters so help me god #and now! here we are! but my shitty-ass coloring & line quality make it hard to discern them so. sorry about that lmaooooo #ANYWAY i don't do enough post-maruki stuff so. i made this one a little bittersweet. :)#why did i put akechi's scarf in a bow? honestly i dont know! i think i saw some art a while ago that did that too and i thought it was cute #well. plus i guess there's the symbolism of 'akechi being alive and reciprocating your feelings (however involuntarily) IS a gift' part #hence that hes wrapped up in a bow. like a present. :)#also god. the first panel is supposed to be akechi's reflection in a vending machine window. I could NOT get it to look right #so for reference!!! just so you guys understand!!!!!! thats what that panel is supposed to be!!! he is NOT in fact a ghost. (sigh)#hope you enjoyed and had a lovely valentines!! for my part i have eaten nothing but sweets today and hoo boy will that have been a mistake #ALSO in terms of the audience-participation comic...hopefully coming soon. if i can ever gain the will to draw it.#but at least tumblr has polls now so i can do the audience-choose-y bit without needing to use a separate website! so thats good i guess #anyway anyway anway thanks for listening to me ramble if you made it this far! have a lovely rest of your day and hopefully see u again soon

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yippee-optimistically · 9 days

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from this concept:

I now have a very cool, very soft, and entirely hand-made 2017 Louie plush !!!!!!

Very silly tail ⬇️

He has a completely functional pull-apart jacket zipper !!!

Also completely functional: the pockets 😼

And here is also a closeup on the little phone

He is made up almost entirely of fleece, all hand-sewn. His shirt and some of his eyes are felt (also the scar on his foot). He's stuffed with polyfill . He's weighed down with lentils 😭 His pattern is made custom by me :) I'm not sure exactly how long he took, but I'd guess some amount of months. Maybe 2, but maybe only a few weeks of collective actual work days

He does also have a dog toy type squeaker in him

#DuckTales #DuckTales 2017 #Dt17 #Does this count as fanart #DuckTales fanart #Dt17 fanart #Louie duck #Dt17 Louie #Errrrrmmm #Sewing #Hand sewing #Plushies #Guys idk how to tag sewing projects #His beak was genuinely a NIGHTMARE to pattern. It took like 4 collective days of trying #It is also sewn on like. Crooked. So so sorry #Scar on his foot (as mentioned in the concept) is a reference to glomtales #Specifically the scene where he's trying to climb out of the window and dt87 bot shoots him w a laser #Absurd decision. Anyway I just think it's sort of fun to include things like that #I would've given him little freckles but I don't have a thread that'd make them subtle enough and I hate drawing details on #Btw I originally had a cute golden zipper w green fabric around it. It was closed-bottomed but I still wanted to use it bc it was all I had #Then I sewed it on and cut it too short. Had to make a surprise trip to joann's to get a new one #I love fabric stores they're so interesting 2 me #He's like 10 inches tall btw. Give or take a little #I DO PLAN TO MAKE DEWEY AND HUEY probably soon if I don't have any more fun projects to get to

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mango-dolphin · 1 year

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Rubber Human by Mili is a very Dante song actually

#limbus company #projmoon #dante lcb #art #digital art #my art #mango's art #mili #no i didn't listen to it over and over on repeat for several hours while procrastinating on sleeping. what are you on about #HILARIOUS THING before i edited the colors this was a lot more purple. i went into it knowingly using different colors #then i decided in color balancing that i wanted them to be closer to dante's OG colors anyways .#the pot was more obviously eggplant-colored then (which is a reference to the song)#Currently Staving Off The Urge To Make An AMV To This #since i had meursault on the mind i was like ''oh this would be cute to put meursault & marie in'' but the more i listened to it i was like #''ah. there is someone a lot more obvious and fitting for this one''#sketch #sketches #technically a doodle.#doodle #doodles #i forgor i had that tag.

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robotsafari · 3 months

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deep in the kingdom hearts trenches..

#beep boop you want fries with that #kingdom hearts #vexen #lexaeus #riku #ansem #i wanna draw lexaeus more but HIS HAIR IS GD NIGHTMARE #on the topic of lexaeus ik he doesnt raise his voice often but i made him do it for the bit. can you forgive me #btw vexen owes like. 50000 munny.#ALSO. riku-ansem. i liek in kh1 when ansem acts liek a gd FREAK in his body like sir WHAT ArE YOU DOING.#he does the exact same mannerisms and everything liek wooahh i love the attention to detail in kh and kh1 specifically.#guys did you know it took ppl many years to realize you can freeze the stove in trickmasters fight to make it easier wooaaahh #unfortunately riku-ansem in kh2 doesnt really have riku’s mannerisms reflected in ansem’s body which. sads #that wouldve been cutes.#the only time i cant think of that happening was when riku appeared hooded in front of sora in the mulan world #teh little gesture he does. and sora is liek. that must be him the only guy who does that is riku #but liek. the gesture is cute and awesome but riku’s expressions dont show up on ansem’s face sadly.#if you think he did then you are probably thinking of the manga. or theres a scene i havent seen yet #bc my kh2 knowledge is sloppy (LOL DAYS REFERENCE) due to me not having played the game when i was young #i only wwatched a cutscene comp when i was little #and memes. lots of meme videos #also hey can we all look at riku’s deranged smile when he was going to hit sora with the keyblade of the heart #FRANKLY ADORABLE.

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fluffalpenguin · 1 year

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Happy Shun Duel Links Day!!! (party popper emoji)

#yugioh arc v #yugioh arc-v #arc-v #shun #yuto #comic #duel links #sorry for the long format but OOH it looks so clean when its all in one line!!!#this almost didn't make it out of my wip jail cells because i spent 30 mins on one of the panels #using references and everything but it just looked super duper odd and it was a waste of time overall #and don't even get me started on the toning (clenches fist) nothing was looking right at one point #but enough about the process i want to talk about the comic itself #part of the motivation for drawing this was seeing all the fluffy shunyoot celebration pics during his roaming event #they ARE cute but also i really really wanted so badly to see shun's visceral reaction that didn't reduce him to mere comedic fodder #(something i'm also guilty of)#so anyway like we always say in ygos we make our own food #wow im rambling anyways the last line of dialogue i had most trouble with but also the most proud of #no shade to the writers of the show (ok maybe like a LITTLE shade) but with this comic i really wanted to reflect the feelings of both #fans of the show as well as fans that left after the ending because that was something i saw floating on jp twitter during the roaming even #and it really made me Think #also can we talk about how in the event yuya was just like hey shun i have a surprise for you!!! haha :]#he was THERE when shun said never appear in front of me ever again did he think shun would just be omg yuto :)#this is why youre my favourite (yuya)#anyways last but not least #the final yuto panel is a healthy mix of guilt + existential dread and doubt about his own existence i hope that was obvious enough

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impossibledial · 2 months

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i’m so intrigued by dannyclara despite not shipping them. i think that relationship is an interesting addition to clara’s character arc and i’m still trying to to figure out it’s purpose.