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somerandomdudelmao · 8 months

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Hi, I saw your and Tap's dystopia ocs, blacked out, and woke up with this. Hopefully you see it :)

(sorry if it's terrible)

“Custom Automated Salesperson,” the robotic centipede said smoothly, pouring another glass of suspiciously colored liquid. “That’s what ‘C.A.S’ stands for, it’s just a bit of a mouthful to say whenever the odd person asks for my name.”

The little rabbit wrapped her hands around the glass and took a huge gulp. Whatever the drink was may have looked strange, but it tasted better than sewer water, that much was certain.

She wiped her mouth and reached for another biscuit, nodding. “Yeah, that makes sense.” She chewed for a moment. “Would ‘chu like to know ma’ name?”

“Sure. It’s a luxury to have one these days, isn’t it.”

The rabbit nodded, swallowing. “It’s Tap,” she said, smiling.

The centipede’s yellowish eyes blinked. “Tap?”

“Yup!” The rabbit suddenly jumped off the stool to hop in a wide circle, her light feet making a pitter-patter, pitter-patter, taptaptap against the floor of the shop. She skidded to a stop. “Tap. Get it?”

The centipede’s metal face stretched in a pseudo-grin. “I do. I do get it.”

“I named myself.” She kicked at the floor, suddenly a bit bashful. “Couldn’t remember having one, decided to make one of my own.”

“I think it’s nice name.” The centipede leaned its chin on one of its arms. “So why were you running from those men?”

The rabbit hopped back onto the stool and sighed, covering her face with her hands. “I was stealing from them, and I got caught.”

The centipede made a staticky humming sound. “Who was your employer?”

The rabbit looked up. “Employer?”

“Yes. The one who paid you to steal from the men.”

The rabbit’s nose scrunched up in confusion. “No one paid me. I was stealing because I needed to eat.”

There was a beat of silence. The centipede glanced down at the plate of biscuits and the flagon of liquid. Wordlessly, they pushed the plate nearer to the rabbit. “Have another biscuit.”

The rabbit happily obliged.

#OH I LOVE ITTTTTT #custom automated salesperson #THIS SOUNDS JUST RIGHT #dystopia au #cass creature #tapa

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3d-made-by-paws · 5 months

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Thing is still in work \o/. Not much have changed but I still work on it. Thanks all people who liked and reblogged earliest post, this gave me the inspiration to continue working.

Special thanks to @somerandomdudelmao for your reblog, and i think you know what am I trying to do ;)

Status: headless Jesus Christ model

#I know that now everyone adores RoyalAU #no hate I really like it myself too #also because it has a lot vibes of DSMP's ButterflyRegin AU #But apocalyptic AUs IS MY LOVE #cass #somerandomdudelmao #cass creature #3d art #3d #blender #dystopia au #What can go wrong?

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ozzieinspacetime · 5 months

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Trevor Hills being Pathetic Blorbo #1 and your enjoyment of him being said Pathetic Blorbo #1 just adding on to the games pre-existing meta commentary is,, so good. They made him as miserable as possible and god it really worked.

#i <3 when dystopia scenarios like American Arcadia appeal to the real life audience #like. you fall in love with the character in the exact same way that the in universe audience does #and i think it provides a really interesting perspective and commentary on like. consumption and entertainment #its one of the reasons the first hunger games appeals to me so much actually because it explores that sort of. audience side #which imo is one of the best parts of 1984/truman show esque dystopia media like that #amyway. go play American Arcadia its really fucking good #american arcadia #trevor hills #we're pioneering tags here tonight ladies #teamtrevor #<- brilliant tag idea

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inact-ice · 5 months

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I need people to start talking about Kathryn Lasky’s books because that woman is insane.

She asked “what if owls were put into concentration camps?” And then also “what if owls were nazis?” And then also “what if wolves practiced eugenics?” And then also “what if the only way to fight an oppressive system is through building community and educating ourselves and the people in our lives that we form relationships with?” “What if by refusing to make academia accessible, we allow nazism?” And then she targeted all of that to 8 year olds and I ate it up, at the end of her series the world fucking explodes no joke, all of the characters I got to know and love died and she just wrote that into her wolf eugenics book like it wasn’t a big deal.

Children’s dystopia is so good man

#kathryn lasky #author #books #and wolves of the beyond #guardians of ga'hoole #everytime she put a pen to paper she knew shit was gonna get wild #I love her #I fear her #dystopia

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treasureplcnet · 5 months

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also quite obsessed with karl being as detached from the story as he is. there's nothing that makes him have to be the detective that has to be involved, but he unknowingly dooms himself by agreeing to work with the KYAL cult. every other detective basically deals with elias head on except weissman, who only meets him right before he kills him. like he's right when he says "by my choices" because everything that leads him to being mixed up with the mannix cult is himself. it's the gambling debts and the choice to do the dirty work for an organisation he knows nothing about. he's the only one that doesn't encounter that body doing police work and it's specifically because he's told to cover it up. he gets himself into the mess and eventually fixes it but the fact that esther always dies in the doomed timelines and he's always too late even if he starts wanting to change things ("till this child. esther.") it just makes me very ill

#sorry jane who heard this on her dms but now im posting it to tumblr cause im having a category 5 woman moment. AND ALTERNATIVELY:#i am also EXTREMELY obsessed with how its a time loop and the idea (so sorry tumblr user whose post i have lost and was inspired by)#weissman was just so fucking hard to deal with that they made sure that he was in their pockets. i just like the idea of the loop--#--having like. fixed points that elias would need to ensure the dystopia (body is covered up/the investigation closes/etc) but #how they get there is a slightly slower process and the earliest loops were the messiest/most unpredictable #and what we see in the show itself is like. the most streamlined version over hundreds of loops and attempts #so karl specifically. lonely that he is and determined to survive. AND with a cruel streak against people he doesn't like #kept nearly blowing their operation so they began to incorporate him in it instead #there's also another tragedy in there if /esther/ is what they realise works best against him..#just love and kindness for a girl that weissman comes to see as family and they immediately exploit it after learning during an early loop #im ignoring specific plot points here (polly seemingly panicking when esther shows up at the station) but I DO NOT CARE.#THERE'S ANGST HAPPENING RN. IM CREATING SCENARIOS TO HURT ME #now if i could write coherently this would be written as a fic but im stuck writing too long textposts #karl weissman #bodies 2023 #bodies netflix #sorry to the other detectives. weissman in particular is my babygirl who i devote most of my brainpower to #personal

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anominous-user · 1 year

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alternative ways to say "i love you" (MANTIS ver.)

#honkai impact #kosma #yae sakura #vill-v #honkai eden #honkai su #pardofelis #fu hua #kevin kaslana #aponia #kalpas #elysia #honkai ato #honkai dystopia #honkai mobius #griseo #a-u doodle dump #alternative ways to say i love you #needed a break from drawing like 2 sets of sketches for stuff so heres a breathe doodler

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imperceiveable · 2 months

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bending unit

#bender bending rodriguez #futurama #futurama fanart #my art #robots in futurama make so little sense but they also make so luch sense #I love that it isnt a utopia and also not a dystopia #also I tried to replicate benders handwriting which is shown in the movie bendes big score if I remember correctly #his guycrush on elzar and calculon. love that for him #urghhh these tags have so many spelling mistakes but I'm too lazy to correct them #dumb doodles that look horrendous but anyways

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colaholicarts · 5 months

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Im posting all my rayfrog art here :3 also some extras under here

a wip

#art #digital art #character art #fanart #bullfrog #captain laserhawk rayman #captain laserhawk #can love bloom in a dystopia #holy fuck i love bullfrog so much #rayfrog

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carfuckerlynch · 1 year

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finally reading @cryptotheism’s amber skies. first descriptor that pops to mind thus far is “visceral.” i think all of you eroticism of meat and the machine enjoyers should be crawling all over this shit like weavils. god knows i am

#guy who said all this shit in the tags and then realized it’s sounds mean. hi excellent fucking book super loving it.#in general i find dystopias to be not quite to my taste but i do love a story that’s made of meat #and i love a story that ticks #and we’re two for two so far #odhran.txt #amber skies #i’m having a little trouble for the same reason i had trouble with the locked tomb. just that the flesh and meat r So present it fucks with #me a little. but also i’m still eating ut with a knife

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sanctus-ingenium · 8 months

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How old are the novices when they start working on the mezian beasts as smith/knight apprentices?

i broke out the ol powerpoint just for you (zoom in to read)

initiates come from many sources both within and outside the church - from babies randomly dumped on the doorstep of a cathedral to willing donations from the laity. It is a tradition that the first non-inheriting child in a family will be given to the church, it's a huge honour for the parents. but in circumstances where the children are taken without the parents' consent (this happens quite often), the kids are transported to different cities or cathedrals without the parents' knowledge.

all initiates are given new names by the church (forenames in alphabetical order paired with a surname indicating where they first trained) and all efforts are made to eliminate any lingering familial bonds. the mandatory masking helps with this.

i wrote way more than i intended because it was something i needed to write up anyway for my own reference and to refresh my knowledge lol enjoy.

The initiates are given a normal religious education and then when they are considered old enough to do simple supervised work (around 8) their capabilities are tested to determine their life path. Here i have only illustrated two paths - smith and knight - but they can also become scribes, priests, cleaners, cooks, whatever the church may need. needless to say, the knight's path is the most selective, as ultimately there is only one knight at a time, and most of the knight novices will fail to progress.

smith acolytes aren't assigned to any one beast or master, and do basic grunt work - a lot of scrubbing armour and cleaning mechanisms - until they become junior novices at age 12, where they start to be trained to handle more responsibilities. Junior novices are assigned to holy beasts based on need (the beast's master smiths will let the church know when they need extra hands on deck). There's no real age limit to this - a novice is a novice until they become a journeyman, but at a certain stage a junior novice is expected to formally ask a master or journeyman to train them one on one (aka to become an novice apprentice). Whether or not the senior smith accepts is entirely up to them and often depends on their own workload, if they can take on an additional apprentices, etc. They often play favourites and if a novice shows a lot of talent, there could even be competition to see who claims him first as an apprentice.

Once you become an apprentice you get an intensive high quality training that lasts a couple of years until you can be considered a journeyman, someone who can be trusted to independently conduct all tasks required of his profession to a high level of skill. on this chart i only have the primary and secondary route mapped out for mercury smiths but it's the same for all smith disciplines - primary smiths are more prestigious as they work directly on holy beasts, but in truth secondary smiths, who work on commercial engines and designs, are the real moneymakers in the church.

a master is considered a master when they produce a new, innovative design which showcases their mastery of their art. a new efficient engine, a piece of elaborate metalwork, or a new application of dragonsblood - it has to impress a board of established masters enough that the smith is awarded the master rank. masters need to show proof of new innovations on a regular basis and are expected to have at least one apprentice at a time. Mercury Luca, who is in his 30s at the start of the story (after the prologue), earned his master title by designing Leun's current heart block (replacing the original heart design, which was a copy of Pantera's heart built by the late Mercury Rodrigo, Leun's original enginesmith. the heart killed him).

Each holy beast has a master mars and mercury smith permanently assigned to him, and in stables where multiple beasts are maintained, seniority will go to the master smiths of the highest ranked holy beasts (therefore, Mercury Luca, Leun's master enginesmith, is the highest ranked in the stables despite being younger and technically less experienced than the other masters). Saturn alchemists primarily deal with the matters of dragonsblood fuel and dialogue tattoos so have slightly different rankings - First Master Saturn alchemists work on holy beast fuel management, while Second Master Saturn alchemists work apart from the beasts by providing dialogue tattoos to smiths.

Ultimately, all smith apprentices will end up working at their field even if they are eternal novices who never earn enough goodwill to get apprenticed. It's not the same for knights. There can be only one at a time and a knight has no set expiration date - they might die in battle tomorrow, they might serve for thirty years straight. An apprentice knight is expected to be able to replace their master at a moment's notice, mid-battle if they have to, so are always on standby.

The novices selected from the initiates work alongside smith novices and believe that they are no different - i.e, although they have passed the requisite tests to become knights, they are not informed of this. The knight path is highly secretive and until the point of no return, when they are selected for apprenticeship, novices are kept in the dark about their potential futures.

The knight is the only one who gets to select apprentices and is often incredibly choosy. The novices are taken to be interviewed by the knight. If the knight rejects every novice during that recruitment cycle, the rejected novices can join another apprentice route, provided they passed the initial prerequisites at initiate stage. If not, they might be turfed off to go be cleaners or scribes or whatever. On becoming apprentices, the novices get their dialogue tattoos, and from then on are expected to live apart from the rest of the apprentices, in the knights' quarters. The secrets of their tattoos are heavily guarded and from this moment on, any dishonourable dropouts have to be executed to protect knight secrets from spreading even to other members of the church. Apprentices learn on the job, and as they grow older there's a hierarchy among them where the eldest is next in line to replace the knight, and so on. They typically ride in the throne room with the knight, depending on space available. most knights have about six apprentices. Because of this setup, someone as young as 12 might suddenly find themselves a knight in charge of a holy beast.

The requirements for knights are quite stringent. At the start of the story there is a recruitment crisis brewing where Leun is concerned, as Sir Heaven rejects every single novice presented to him and has no apprentices whatsoever, operating the throne room alone aside from a visual interpreter. Although Sir Heaven is visually impaired, that is not actually considered a disqualifier because knights fight blind anyway. injuries to the limbs that leave them permanently affected are disqualifying. Because any apprentice at this stage is considered to be chosen by god, they are given a merciful death. You need two working arms to operate a holy beast.

#setting: mez #yay i love rambling #hideous structural ableism? in MY catholic dystopia?#shoutout sir victory

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cirilee · 5 months

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