#There was a PLAN Sam

[box-architecture]

Analyzing… Analyzing…

Negative.

With a a huff, D.R.E. slammed the refrigeration unit shut. He was halfway through the time frame of his assignment, and he was becoming increasingly aware of its slim odds of success. There would be no penalty for failure, but D.R.E. was competent, the best of the best, and to fail at his directive (no matter how stacked the odds were against him) felt unacceptable.

An intense crash sounded behind him. D.R.E. blinked, head swiveling without regard for its body.

Oh. The earth robot had knocked itself into a pile of garbage. Again.

It was (painfully) obvious the outdated bot had been following him for the duration of his exploration, the small beeps and Redstone ticking would be giving away its presence easily, but along with its strangely clumsy nature, there was some wonder at why it attempted to evade detection at all.

Odd. (Silly. Stupid.)

He watched the robot dig itself out, mapping out his next location to scan as it vocalized its frustration. He needed to keep searching, of course. He needed to follow the plan, the Directive. But…

More information could be considered tangentially related.

The redstone bot was sinking into a junk pile, shouting in stressed exclamations. D.R.E. picked him up with as much care as he could, flying them towards a cleaner surface beneath the night sky. It squeaked, but made no attempts to attack, which he appreciated. It really wouldn't be great for their first conversation to be hindered by annoying miscommunication.

Gently, he set it down. Its eyes peeked up at him from where they had hidden, and slowly it unfolded, outdated solar panels flipping to face him.

"Oh." It said. D.R.E. let his face flicker for a moment in thought.

"Oh." He agreed. Conversations were,,,, not his strong suit. He would start with something easy. "Name?"

It's panels raised in surprise. "Oh. SAM."

"Sam." D.R.E. hummed. Like the SAM-E's on the ship. Possibly the original model, which meant it had been strong enough to survive all these years. D.R.E. approved.

"Name?"

"… D.R.E."

"Drea-mmm?" Sam tried. Despite himself, D.R.E.'s LED smile glowed a little warmer.

"No. D.R.E."

"Dream." Sam repeated, rolling a little closer in excitement. It waved at him, shaking Redstone dust from out beneath his claws.

The Redstone glowed dim on its arms, obviously manually applied over the years to keep it going. D.R.E. pulled an arm close to inspect it. The flaps on the back of Sam's torso wagged.

"Redstone. Old." He murmured. Robots hadn't needed to function through Redstone in centuries.

"Hm?" Sam was making an odd rumbling noise now, practically knocking into D.R.E. He allowed it, assured in his own ability to neutralize a threat should it become one.

"Redstone." D.R.E. said. He ran a finger up it's arm in example, before pointing to his Eye Of Ender peeking out of his own chest. "Ender Eye."

"Ender." Sam squinted at the Eye. Lightly, it dragged a claw across the pupil. It opened to scan the limb.

Analyzing… Analyzing…. Negative.

Obviously.

Sam startled suddenly, jerking away and grabbing D.R.E.'s arm. He let himself be dragged along towards a storage unit with confusion. A threat? Should he be aiming a weapon?

"Dream." It urged. "In. In in in."

"Sam?" He asked. The dust storm began to pick up around them, and he realized the issue. "Sam!"

"Dream. In." Sam commanded, and they went in. The large door slammed behind them.

It was dark. And then it was not.

Sam was eager to show its strange, pre-ship contraptions, its eyes wide with delight as D.R.E. fiddled with pistons and glowing stones and the strangest music player D.R.E. had ever seen. He chirred at the cockroach ("Fran," Sam buzzed with affection,) and glided to the screen Sam was attempting to invest him in. It was sweet, someone wanting his attention for something other than new orders to follow, a new directive to accomplish, even if he didn't understand half of what he was being shown.

(His directive beeped in the back of his memory, reminding him of what he was supposed to be focusing on. It was fine, though. Just until the storm stopped.)

He felt claws nudging into his fingers.

"Hm?" D.R.E. let his head roll idly. Sam's tail flaps wagged.

"Dream!" It said as it tucked its head into the curve of his neck. The odd rumble started up again, louder than before; D.R.E. rested his head on its own to see if he could feel the vibrations.

"Sam?"

Sam's solar panels tapped against the glow of D.R.E.'s smile before pulling away to clap. It beckoned D.R.E. over to where more oddities were piling up. A gnarled blue thing was shoved into D.R.E.'S hands as Sam looked to him for approval.

What a strange color. He scanned it.

Analyzing…. Analyzing….

Confirmed.

Oh.

(He would not know of Sam's panic until much later.)

-

Dream didn't look at him as they were both led away to…. somewhere? The ship was wholly unfamiliar to SAM, outside of the little screens on Earth. He'd never seen the humans in the flesh (or if he had, he no longer recalled,) and the design of the ship seemed to run wholly on Ender Eyes, the familiar Redstone Crimson absent in favor of glassy, glossy green.

Dream was familiar. He was the only reason SAM wanted anything to do with the ship anyway, which was why he gently tugged on Dream's hand with his claws, hoping to slip their fingers together.

The hope was crushed as Dream tugged his hand away. He glared, his usual smile flat and mirthless.

"SAM." He said sternly. SAM shrunk into himself. He knew Dream was still mad about the plant being missing, but they were together now, so they could absolutely go look for it later after they held hands, right? SAM didn't see a problem with that. Hand holding wouldn't interfere with plant finding. He was sure of it.

Dream suddenly drooped, anger falling away as they entered a room filled with more robots. He sighed and waved SAM off, letting himself he pulled away by a large claw and into a separate room.

Immediately another claw came down on him as he tried to follow.

"Dream," SAM called out as he scrambled to get away. He was plonked into a separation area, Redstone dust clouds in his wake. "Dream!"

What followed in the next few moments happened very, very fast.

SAM barely registered the removal of Dream's head (the depressed smile vanishing completely as he was deactivated) before he was destroying the containment cube. In a fervor he was grabbing at the claw with Dream's head and tearing the precious orb out of its arm to cradle. There was some sort of mania happening with the bots behind him, but he ignored it in favor of pushing Dream back together.

He was barely aware of the distressed noises he was making, desperate as he failed to get Dream to come back. It was fine if he never held SAM's hand again, really, he would give up hand holding forever, he just wanted Dream to come back!

He was nearly toppled over as another bot rolled to them. They shoved SAM to the side and leaned forward to inspect his work. With a tsk, they took the orb from his claws (ignoring his enraged squawk and attempts to fight them) and activated the Ender Eye on Dreams chest, setting the orb on top of the body as it begun to float.

A familiar lime smile appeared on its face. It scrunched in confusion.

"What?" Dream asked, twisting his head every which way. SAM followed the movements with complete and utterly joy.

"Dream!"

Dream looked over SAM's head, and the confusion became alarm. "SAM!"

It was then that SAM realized the room they were in was completely destroyed, and partially on fire.

The robot beside them made an amused noise before rolling out the door, ignoring the robots rioting all around.

(Tech-No. 8 was having an excellent day, and as he watched the warning signs appear with pictures of the strange SAM-E and D.R.E., he decided that it was likely to get even better. If they lived through this he might even get to make fun of D.R.E. for bringing home an incompetent sparkmate)

-

#sfw boxing #backposting #awesamwastaken #Techno just wants anarchy on an authoritarian ship #is that too much to ask #also Sam made Dream look like an idiot in front of his superiors #this is a crime #and the punishment is no hand holding #There was a PLAN Sam #the plan was GIVE PLANT TO PEOPLE #he had a JOB Sam #Also to replace the og Sam's gas mask. SAM-E's mouth area is solar panels #also he gets a tail and claws/paws because. I have demons.

[perplexingly]

“He never had any real hope in the affair from the beginning; but being a cheerful hobbit he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed.”

The comic is based on a scene from the chapter “The passage of the marshes”

#my art #tolkien #lord of the rings #this part made me very emotional #this is not the first time that Frodo had spoke of dying but it’s the first time that it really went through to Sam #(he gets over it and plans their survival in the next chapter tho)

[sphyrne]

how jingo went

close ups on his face, bc i like when hes holding on by a thread

#discworld #my art #samuel vimes #sam vimes #look i know he didnt plan anything but if he did #gnu terry pratchett

[andi-o-geyser]

local gang of dnd players intimidate and viciously bully game show host sam reich, threatening to push his ass down the stairs like he's a 90-year-old grandma in a retirement home. more at 8

#another brennan lee mulligan monologue to go down in the books folks #this one is short but holy shit does it pack a punch #this threat like god fucking damn brennan #sam is on a plane to aruba rn planning to start his new life so that these three won't come to his house at night and murder him #gimme a minute a may pull a muscle laughing #also siobhan's little push on sam too is like asdfsjkhksjd im fucking cackling #game changer #game changer spoilers #brennan lee mulligan #sam reich #siobhan thompson #lou wilson #dropout #dropout tv #d20 #d20 cast #college humor #andis thought geyser

[crunchchute]

I can be your devil

#crunchchute art #my art #sam and max #not waht i planned to draw today. at all. #this was meant to be a warmup i guess but its like. not a warmup at all lol #drawing everything except what im supposed to

[retquits]

i guess we're doin this

#my art #wip #stardew valley #portrait mod #sdv sam #stardew fanart #sdv fanart #i'm almost done with a big project - after which i'll have a *little* free time!!! #so sam is gonna be my guinea pig to find out how long a single character mod will take 😌✌ #these are just the sketch/planning phase!!

[emilybeemartin]

Just to tie in my two themes this month----

Additional notes, because poll options apparently limit their characters:

Frodo finds great peace in watching the tides rise and fall throughout each day. He attends all the ranger programs on birds and seashells and fills pages with sketches and poetry.

Sam meticulously selects postcards in the gift shop for each of his friends and spends a whole morning writing and addressing them. He also buys Junior Ranger hats for his kids and a variety of Appalachian jams for Rosie.

Park rangers launch a Missing Person search for Aragorn when they realize his car's been parked at Avalanche Creek for three days. The search runs for almost a week before he comes strolling out the opposite side of the park, supporting one of the SAR techs who twisted an ankle during the search.

Legolas is first drawn to Olympic for the towering, mossy temperate rainforests, but the ground goes out from under him when he steps onto Second Beach for the first time. He spends an entire day watching the light and tides shift on the sea stacks, and he leaves feeling both full and hollow, like a bell that's just been rung.

Mammoth is only Gimli's first stop on a cavern tour, followed by Jewel and Wind Caves and Carlsbad Caverns. Wind Cave is his favorite for the unusual formations. He makes an obnoxious tween boy cry in Carlsbad for breaking off a speleothem.

Boromir is on a tour of military parks. He asks so many questions to the intern working the info station at Fort Sumter the kid has to go find the park historian. His favorite site is Vicksburg because that place was buckwild, though he silently judges one of the reenactors for his clumsy handling of a black powder rifle.

Merry also makes stops in Jurassic and Dinosaur National Monuments. He watches every park video, takes selfies in front of all the fossil exhibits, and earns his Junior Ranger badge at each one. He buys a keychain for Pippin.

Pippin actually gets four citations, mostly for trying to stick his hands in mud pots. He doesn't mean anything by it---he's just so delighted and curious about the bizarre landscape. He winds up with several thermal burns and dumps a king's ransom in the donation box on his last day.

Gandalf gets dinged by rangers for not paying the $5 fee for Trunk Bay, but he acts senile until they eventually decide to drop it. He gets postcards from everyone and responds to none of them.

Faramir and Eowyn are traveling together and do many of the same hikes and rides, but they do have some different preferences off-trail. Eowyn drags Faramir to a rodeo and the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar in Jackson Hole, and he goads her into Ranger Shelton Johnson's living history programs on the Buffalo Soldiers in Yosemite.

Eomer is bike-packing on his sport cruiser motorcycle. He goes to Roosevelt south unit for the wild horse herds but ends up spending half a day watching a prairie dog town. He takes 400 photos of them, mostly blurry, and texts them to Eowyn.

#i actually did legit trip planning for this post #whats my choice? #I'm the ranger in Yellowstone who keeps finding Pippin putting his face in the goddamn paint pots #during office hours I follow the updates of the SAR in Glacier #after that I catch up with Faramir in Teton to hike Paintbrush Divide and casually ask what his brother's up to #oh he's going to be at Fort Laramie next week? #you don't say #when I get back to YELL I put in for emergency days off #do i give a damn about Fort Laramie? no #lord of the rings #lotr #frodo #sam #aragorn #legolas #gimli #boromir #merry #pippin #gandalf #eowyn #faramir #eomer #national parks #31 days of national parks

[flambo19]

I want to draw more hsr characters as cat cakes. Starting with the missing Stellaron Hunters & Astral Express

#I'm sad Silver Wolf never got here own critter so I'm fixing that + Sam bc a cat in armour is funny to me #honkai star rail #hsr #silver wolf #sam #stellaron hunters #himeko #welt yang #flambo art #im planning to draw more of these but i'll probably post them as i finish them rather than like six after a week+

[ectonurites]

happy birthday Mike!!!!!!

#i was going to add a silly doodle of him opening thee present but i got sleepy . in my mind it is a spiral notebook tht Will painted #on the cover of with the intent of it being a place mike can plan new campaigns <3 #mike wheeler #will byers #byler #byler art #stranger things #stranger things 4 #also yes i put will in his jacket from the stranger things experience. im so weak for varsity jackets i personally own 3 #sam draws shit

[lolottes]

Ida pendant

Ida Manson is Constantine's ex

that ended badly and she created magical distancing pendant and a silencing spell that prevents him from talking about her

When Justice League Dark sends Constantine to Amity Park, he can't even enter the city

he sighs, how is he going to be able to explain this without mentioning ida

#dpxdc #dcxdp #dc x dp #dp x dc #dp x dc crossover #dc x dp crossover #ida manson #john constantine #JLD #he recognizes ida's magic #magical ida #ida knows how to make magic objects from scratch #she is the one who taught Sam everything about creating accessories and modifying / customizing her things #she plans to teach her magic when she turns 18 #more by afraid that she will be kicked out of the house before she is ready than out of fear that she will be irresponsible #Pamela knows the basics of making magical artifacts #but refuses to follow the family tradition and make it her profession #or talk about it to Sam especially since she became a goth #she continues all the same modified her jewelry by adding a little lucky charm #a supernatural pinch of luck never did any harm after all #or to do the same to the bargain she offers to her daughter #yes she is slightly hypocritical while loving really his daughter #a lot of people would like an anti-constantine pendant #that's why she also stopped him from talking about her #my #my prompt #my prompts #prompt #I have two other ideas on ida and constantine that I have to edit which I will publish to you in the coming days ;)

[gammija]

trying to find my sam design while he's trying to find out a bit more about that magnus institute

#tmagp #the magnus protocol #samama khalid #sam tmp #sam tmagp #gammijart #starting again with my time honoured tradition to stay up past my planned bedtime by drawing fanart o7 #magnuspod

[nelkcats]

Transfers

Jim Gordon decided to offer his home to the students transferring from Casper High to Gotham Prep for a few months. Barbara wasn't too happy about it but Jim preferred that to having those kids end up in a dangerous place or worse, with Bruce Wayne (he meant well but frankly Jim would rather not risk another young vigilante). Besides, one of the transfers practically demanded a restraining order against the millionaires, the poor kid.

Honestly Jim didn't understand why the transfer program existed. Casper didn't know how dangerous Gotham was? Or didn't they care?, all he hoped was that he could keep them safe and that they wouldn't come back to their home too traumatized.

Of course, he had no way of knowing that the Casper's trio was more than ready for Gotham, with weapons disguised in their suitcases and a ghost hero about to enjoy an extended vacation after negotiating a deal with the ghosts.

Gotham wouldn't know who hit it.

#dpxdc #transfer students #eternal trio #everlasting trio #technically this is Casper High deciding that the trio needs a vacation #Casper also need some time to rebuild the school #the trio is too connected to the ghosts for them to risk remodeling with them inside #and Gotham is dangerous but Amity has nothing to envy them #dp x dc #dc x dp #Sam is happy to meet his favorite eco-terrorist #Tucker plans to hack all of Gotham #And Danny is happy to have a vacation #Poor Jim Gordon #he is about to have many cardiac arrests #the trio can take care of themselves #And ghosts would probably visit Gotham #it will be an interesting couple of months

[little-pondhead]

*tosses these into a pit and bolts*

#pondhead memes #danny phantom #I’m not sorry #dp x dc #danny fenton #tucker foley #sam manson #supervillain danny au #everlasting trio #villain!everlasting trio #Red Robin tried to challenge Foley at various things #not only can Foley hack better than him #he has Superman level strength and just breaks anything they capture him with #Manson beat the shit out of Harley and Ivy #and then teamed up with them #Fenton literally broke into the watchtower to warn the JL about his partners plans to take over the world #like yeah he loves her but taking over the world is HIS thing and also she ate the last bagel #that was a weird week for everyone #Damian definitely got adopted #completely by accident too #they were just chilling underground when he found them tried to fight them and got knocked into the portal gun they’d been using to commute #he got zapped to amity and Dani adopted him as her brother On Sight #the trio just kind of went along with it and now he knows all their secrets #he keeps their secrets on the condition he gets to come to amity and do the same thing they’re doing #which is fight people who are already dead and be a menace #Danny is very proud of his new stabby child and now has an excuse not to be adopted by Batman #in fact he appears one day as Fenton and demands child support #dpxdc

[mihotose]

#taskmaster #taskmasteredit #chi gifs #i dont think sam plans any of his sentences i think he opens his mouth and we get to go on a beautiful journey with him

[crunchchute]

Noir

#crunchchute art #my art #sam and max #noir sam #had something else planned but because of skunkape noir sam is on the mind #just noticed what i forgot to color but its ok #nobody will notice #wait gotta tag the deets too #alcohol #smoking #cigarette #ask to tag

[hardlylaced]

hi tumblr. here's a sketch of hailey that turned into way more than i bargained for. it seems to just keep growing. it might grow beyond this. it might change irrevocably. it might fall dormant. depends on how much i feed it.

#i planned absolutely none of this #once my pen hits the canvas i enter a rogue fugue state where reason fails to follow #stardew fanart #stardew shane #stardew valley #stardew emily #stardew jas #stardew haley #stardew sam #stardew sebastian #my art <3