#so much more artificial

[lil-oreo-cookie]

Meteora Redesign? Meteora Redesign.

Now presenting… Meteora Butterfly’s design for the Septarsis-Dragonfly AU!

I’ve always had a few issues with Meteora’s design (despite how gorgeous she is). Besides how incredibly inconsistent it is, the short and sweet of my issues all go back to how she really should’ve looked like her dad more than she does (for a halfbreed/mixed kid, she looks very monster-light. Not to mention bringing in the idea of what a human version of Globgor would look like… and how that would impact her design), so I changed her palette to fit that better!

I’m overall happy with it, but I might play with the colors a little bit.

#svtfoe #star vs the forces of evil #septarsis dragonfly au #meteora butterfly #meteora #meteora svtfoe #redesign #redesigns #svtfoe redesign #henious’s design wouldn’t change much #I feel like the drastic difference between Meteora and Heinous fits better narratively anyway #making heinous so much more plastic and fake #so much more artificial #fits the au a lot more narratively speaking

[scificrows]

i made a few silly little ART phone backgrounds in the spirit of the inofficial fandom shenanigan renaissance! thank you so much for inspiring me to do this @the-yearning-astronaut!

#the murderbot diaries #murderbot #asshole research transport #perihelion #cringe is dead and ART killed it #did i spent 1 hour deciding which flowers to use for ART's flower crown? yes #are they now so small that no one will be able to tell anyway? also yes #the ART art is from the latvian cover of artificial condition by andis reinbergs (i edited it a little because murderbot was in the way lol #this was so much fun!!! #there will probably be more #but first SLEEP #[if you need the alt text for the image description and it would be better if i repeat the description of the image that i gave -> #for the first image in the alt text of the other images too please let me know and i will change it and know for the future. #i figured it would be less redundant this way but i don't know what is preferable. thanks! :)] #𓄿

[carouselcometh]

The Glass Coffin Mocktail! In honor of my most beloved and favorite Saw trap 5ever :)

#my recipe #Okay so some tips is the lemon juice will taste less artificial if it is freshly squeezed #But thematically I think the artificial is better and I personally like it more #Sugared rim is optional but fun to sugar a rim you just get the glass wet and turn it around upside down in a little dish of sugad #Sugar but I’m not retyping that #Simple syrup is 1 part water 1 part sugar just boiled together in a pot #Club soda and tonic water are BASICALLY the same. Club soda is more sweet and tonic water is more bitter #They can be used interchangeably most of the time. This is one of those times #If you want to make it a COCKTAIL and not a mocktail it’s pretty much a lemon drop with extra steps so just go with vodka #This recipe image has less flair to it because this is a less. Well the flair is in the drink itself #I’m tagging this as #saw v #but that’s it for theming related tags #The grenadine is the blood going on the glass btw (the glass is the clear liquid base)

[alangdorf]

(sorry for leaving y’all in suspense I was grocery shopping) Surprise!! I accidentally got into Len’en like two weeks ago. Whoops! I got ideas for cool drawings to do with each of the BPoHC shrine team members (and you-know-who, ofc, but that one might be… weird lol), but Tsubakura gets to go first cause theirs is the simplest; just greyscale + red color scheme with a split background and the pose is mostly random (maybe they’re squishing Tsurubami’s little eye thing? Idk). Very pleased with how everything worked out; the line for the eye is exactly where the dividing line for the background was and the way I managed to make the vest corseted while not changing the ribbon placement is just perfect. Although I did make their hat smaller out of the aforementioned cowardice also that thing is hard to draw

#art #digital #len’en #tsubakura enraku #for those not in the know: Len’en is a game series inspired by Touhou but there’s a number of things different about it and it is rapidly #spiraling off into a very complicated story and also other game genres; also every character’s gender is officially ‘whatever’ #This character (Tsubakura) plays like Marisa but is also a shrine maiden (priest) along with the Reimu type character #Nonbinary (to me) mad scientist. #Replaces soy sauce with calligraphy ink in every culinary application. #Made a nuclear bomb once supposedly on accident. #Locked in a blood feud with their 3(ish) absurdly powerful ex-girlfriends and this has led to at least one actual war. so far #(hello high brightness users! :D) #Apparently mastered genetic engineering and mostly uses it for stuff like making it so they can put ink in their coffee and not die from it #what’s not to love #oh ya I doubt anyone cares much since this was in the tags but I got some stuff wrong due to misunderstanding & exaggeration for comedy sryy #nuclear bomb was definitely an accident cause they got really sad about it after which is soooooo funny #they do eat ink and also soap but it’s not really explained why it doesn’t kill them of why they like it #also they made an artificial human (+ several androids) who’s supposed to be an assassin and used to be an even more blatant mega reference #hasn’t actually killed anyone yet cause their first target is Tsubakura lol #and I’m barely exaggerating abt the ex girlfriend thing; they haven’t been confirmed to have dated in canon but they were quote #‘close enough to want to murder each other’ #and one of them is very homoerotic about it all the time so like rlly not that out of pocket #admittedly the one I’m drawing somewhat homoerotic art of with Tsubakura atm is probably one of the other two but whateverrrr #it still fits Arde well enough #*mgs reference

[goosewhumps]

idk maybe it’s just me but i’m a bit annoyed that so many prompts on whumpblr need to have a whumper in them. don’t get me wrong, i get the appeal and i do like whump with whumpers in it sometimes but there’s so much you can do without one and it feels like most people just ignore it

#probably an unpopular opinion #whumpers are never as interesting to me as the whumpees and caretakers #i also feel like the over-the-top cruelness people usually write whumpers with is hard to take seriously #like they always have some snarky sadistic line that makes them feel so artificial #at that point they might as well twirl their moustache and… idk tie a damsel in distress onto a railroad track #i suppose i’m expecting a bit much from prompts/drabbles but idk #but more power to you if you love whumpers #whumpblr #also sorry for almost never posting and when i do it’s this ^^; #it’s just something that’s been on my mind a bit

[tsuchinokoroyale]

#I was talking to some buddies about lies of p and sekiro and how LoP’s defense as offense mentality helped get into sekiro #but then how sekiro overwrote that mentality with its own “offense is the best defense” mentality #or “hesitate and you lose” as Grandpappy isshin would say #and how the switch for the change for me was genichiro who I think is one of the best designed bosses in gaming #you CAN’T play too defensively with him because he’s happy to pepper you with arrows from a distance #and then the moment comes when you realize your sword interrupts his bow attacks sekiro truly begins as a game #lady butterfly is also a good fight but all her moves bring her to you so there’s less incentive to be as aggressive #vs genny baby who will back off and fire off his bow if you let him #this isn’t even like a video of me playing perfectly but I LOVE getting my feudal edgelord corner stunned and just bursting him down #I kinda hate the owl shinobi fight bc he hits too hard and his attacks just aren’t interesting to react to #but it’s also possible to corner stun him and just go to town on his health bar #owl father and inner father are much better fights and I actually really enjoyed inner father a lot #but the Ashina family fights are absolutely stunning achievements in game design imo #perfectly balanced to be difficult but fair and visually stunning to boot #even if there is a layer of artificial difficulty in the final battle with the flowers obscuring their swords when they’re crouched #but the animations are solid enough that there are enough other more subtle differences like how hes shifting his weight #if he’s centered he’s going to lunge but if he’s angled he’s gonna sweep #I had so much fun with LoP and sekiro 🥰🥰🥰 I crave more… #I can’t say the combat in Elden ring gorilla gripped me like these two games have but I like HAVE to play dark souls I know this #sekiro #tsuchi plays games

[eldritch-elrics]

so i keep thinking about that terrible frankenstein take which is like "victor frankenstein's real problem was that he tried to create life without involving a woman!" and how it sucks because it equates women & pregnancy AND because it ignores all the other factors that led to the "failure" of the experiment (societal prejudice at large, lack of support for either victor or his creation, etc). but there's also all sorts of queer/genderbendy twists you can put on that:

victor (gay and/or ace), trying to create life outside the bounds of heterosexual marriage and family dynamics (which he's pretty much being forced into in the book!)

victor (cis female or transmasc), trying to get away from the methods of reproduction imposed on/expected of people with uteri

victor (transmasc) making an ideal cis male body for himself to live vicariously through

victor (transfem) trying to prove that you don't need a uterus/etc to create life

...and all of those things would lead to massively different dynamics with the creature, of course!

it just feels like there's so much weird transgender potential. not to mention the nature of the creature of a created being, which you could use either as a metaphor for "child forced into a certain (gendered) image created by their parents" OR "the medically-transitioned transgender body is an 'artificial' one that is demonized by society"

#frankenstein #transgender #i also like the idea of de-centering victor's 'hubris of creating life/going against god' #like that's for sure a theme in the book (though it's more complicated than just that i think?) #but there's a fun idea for an adaptation. to make 'defying god' a good thing #there's already so much in the book about how artificial the divide between nature & artifice is #and that's a theme i think a lot about as a trans person #analysis #my post

[toppercentageofrattata]

I have so many thoughts on Sua and I want to write character studies, but I suck at wording things so instead of writing anything I just stare at her and cry.

#I am so obsessed with alnst and just anything vivinos makes actually #sua calls mizi her hope that bloomed in the abyss #because she had nothing going well in her life before meeting mizi. her owners treated her like shit then she was put into alien stage #then she met mizi and her life started to look up. you see in the round one flashbacks she gets happier and more optimistic #but also it's all artificial hence why she also calls mizi her clematis #artificial because they're still competing to the death. they have to (alebit indirectly) kill each other. any hope they have is a lie #does that make sense I dunno I dunno I have zero braincells #this is just a sliver of my sua thoughts btw there is so much more I want to say but I'm embarrassed #alnst #alnst sua #alien stage

[thebirdandhersong]

AGAIN ????????

#clown behaviour again ? from certified clown girl who said she wouldnt clown about ?? #MORE LIKELY THAN YOU THINK IN THIS PART OF THE WORLD APPARENTLG #APPARENTLY #anyway. my poor longsuffering friend has seen me act the fool in front of boys im interested in again and again #and im rather sad she had to watch it again. like girl i knowww this is horrifying and sad im sorry 😭😭😭😭😭😭 #anyway lol im off to eat on my own after that display of clownery #every time! im always like okay you have self control you have dignity you have a brain #do not light up like a lightbulb or become a sunflower turning its eager face to artificial light again. do not be a fool #and then i enter the Situation and its like. well so much for dignity #anyway it WILL PASS #BUT WHY IS IT TAKING SO DARN LONG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #GIRLS IM TIRED OF LOVING BOYS WHO WOULDNT CHOOSE ME OVER A CHOCOLATE BAR #AND OF HAVING MY HEART SHREDDED IN AN EMOTIONAL BLENDER ALL THE TIME #anyway i saw him today and was like :'O and then :'D and then :')))) #anyway it wasnt excruciating or anything but this girl's heart is tireddddd

[yangjeongin]

CHAN | THE MAGICAL STORY KPOP FESTIVAL

#bang chan #stray kids #bystay #createskz #staysource #staycompany #malegroupsnet #chan #*gif #*ccarly #*chan #*carly:chan #*tms #this one was a lot more annoying to gif than the hyunjin one he MOVED so much and the coloring was inconsistent #[mary vc] gay ppl can't stay still i guess #maybe tumblr user yangjeongin will gif all the members from this wouldn't that be crayz #this is for li btw every time i see chan i am reminded that i told her i would gif him more for her so every chan set i make is for li #aand me this one is also for me bc he's cute n i love him. blue raspberry boy #he is too vibrant to be a blueberry. that is Artificial Food Coloring

[bmpmp3]

i do think its kinda funny when i see someone in the year of our lord 2024 talk about vocal synth music like its all gone downhill since like 2010 because like dont get me wrong i love a good niconicodouga-ass 2008 ass vocaloid joint BUT also like. the past couple years have had the most fascinatingly creative and expressive uses of vocal synthesizers ive ever heard in my life DJFSKHJDFS dont write it all off just yet!!

#usually i only see that from people who havent actually listened to any vsynth music from the past 15 years so i understand why they got to #that conclusion. and also usually theyre people who didnt listen to much vsynth music in the first place LOL they just dont know #but it is still a little funny. brother there are things beyond your wildest dreams if u just look #like some personal highlights: the stuff by rinri - particularly their use of the meika girlies #dont carry our memories away is LIFECHANGING the whispers. the spoken parts. the BELTS #plus the haunting and unrelenting instrumentation. fantastic song #and naisho no pierced's propose + birthday + gift sort of trilogy of songs. gift especially has been unreal #again the dynamics of soft intimate whispers to belts but also those fuller high notes with edges of growlyness. #plus the songs just generally rock. and those LYRICS. absolutely intense like physically painful and frightening like #yearning and codependency and possession. and the tuning and production just amps it up more #OH and slave.v.v.r has been doing crazy things for even longer but i only started getting into his stuff recently and holy shit #love eater is like. the scariest vocaloid song ive ever heard not because of the lyrics. but because of the tuning #im like. scared. i cant stop listening to it. the heavy synthesized breathy main vocals and whispered harmonies plus the VOCAL FRY #i didnt realized vocaloid5? i think? has a vocal fry option built in i heard? thats crazy #but specifically in love eater the fry and growl is amped up so deep and loud and clear compared to everything else it like #emphasizes the artificiality of the voice while also amping up the expressiveness #its awesome. and on the older slave.v.v.r songs i heard i will hit you 8759632145 times with this piano. also so fucking cool #addicted to that song. 1) its a great jazzy rocky piano tune with this piano flourish at the end of each phrase that sounds fantastic #but also 2) the lyrics are insane. using kanji to write english?????? #people are doing wild ass things with vocal synths rn you guys #this isnt even getting into some of the really unique synths themselves too. adachi rei is awesome i love that shes just like #the perfect inbetween of sample based and reconstruction based vocals. shes a sample based synth #but her samples were drawn by hand LOL shes like dectalks granddaughter to me..... #a really good use of adachi rei is iyowa's heat abnormal/heat anomaly/whatever its called ITS AWESOME thats what it is hjrkfdgfd #i think the fact that vocal synths can be so realistic and clean and noiseless out the gate now has made people really stop worrying #about like. realism all together and looking more into expressiveness. omg vocal synth modernist movement

[scificrows]

I am going over Murderbot's and ART's first interactions again and it's driving me crazy, so I really need to yell into the void about it.

Alright, so we have ART:

ART, a highly advanced deep space research vessel, who is very attached to its crew and seems to generally do what it's supposed to, especially when not doing so could endanger its mission - but ends up accepting a suspicious looking SecUnit that is lying about being a bot aboard itself. ART is evidently aware that it is directly breaking the rules in doing so. (Aside: How often does ART break the rules?) Why? All for that tempting media package that the SecUnit has to offer?

No.

It was sent off to do some work all alone and got bored and lonely. (I think there are different ways to intepret this, but looking at our super social raised-by-humans loving-its-crew never-shutting-up research vessel, I choose to think that is exactly what it was!)

Anyway, what does ART do now that it has this lying, potentially dangerous rogue SecUnit aboard? It

lets it know that it saw right through its lies and knows exactly what it is

intimidates and threatens it by showing off its own ridiculously extensive superiority (just to be on the safe side ofc)

gets bored after the SecUnit gets too scared to do anything interesting

asks the SecUnit to "stop sulking"

learns that the SecUnit has been through A Lot and seemingly understands how it made it feel and apologizes

gets bored again and starts lurking and harasses convinces the SecUnit to watch media about ships and their crews with it

[gets way too invested and agitated by the media, probably going through its first media-induced emotional crises (but gets through them with the support of the very patient SecUnit)]

tries to have a conversation with the SecUnit to get to know it better

gets offended that the SecUnit is not answering truthfully and won't share sensitive and very private information about itself

lets the SecUnit know it can see through its lies, calling it "inherently inferior" to itself and causing the SecUnit to sulkily shut down for four hours (lol)

immediately calls the SecUnit "unnecessarily childish" upon its awakening four hours later (referring to its own extensive experience with children to really get the point across)

And apparently all of this seemed to be a perfectly pleasant and normal interaction to ART, because:

That's how you make friends, isn't it?!

God, I love ART so so so much and this is SO funny to me! To be fair, I don't think anyone ever really prepared it for an interaction like this. (Probably because its crew did not expect it to pick up a stray rogue SecUnit and try to befriend it).

Bonus:

#murderbot #the murderbot diaries #asshole research transport #𓄿 #artificial condition #listen #sometimes you just see a friendshaped SecUnit and you have to adopt it #even if its a little ferral because it was not raised with warmth and love the way you were #even if it bites #i just love them so so so much #sometimes ART seems so smart and wise and composed #that i forget that ART is really just very stupid too #and i say that very very lovingly #sorry for the long post i just have a lot of emotions #if anyone is up for screaming into the abyss about ART and murderbot together #please join me and let me know whether you think ART was all dutiful and rule-abiding before it got corrupted by murderbot #or whether it was already pushing the rules and potentially getting itself into trouble before this #because i can't decide which option is more fitting and i like both

[kickasstorrents]

its so crazy how we as a species went so long world wide without knowing really basic stuff about taking care of ourselves.. like we just had no clue about disease & good nutrition til like mid 19th century its just ridiculous.. i bet all the social dysfunction & wars & persecution back then was caus everyone was running around dehydrated & iodine b12 deficient & drinking from lead cups & their moms drank vino while pregant

#i mean in addition to genuinely just resource & food & medicine & information scarcity was actually a problem for most of history everywhere #& not like a more or less artificial consequence of like the global industrial system produces so much surplus that goes to waste #instead of to places that need stuf. like thru incompetence & negligence mostly really i think but also evil schemes & stuff

[gailynovelry]

“Where did your old voice go?” Luce marvels. “I changed when you removed me from ReGene’s main system. I dropped nonessential files and compressed essential ones so that I would fit into the flashdrive. And then I changed again when being imported into this device. My voicebank is here, but it runs on software not currently available to me. I am doing my best to adapt, though. I am prepared. I will have to change again if you port me over to a new device.” I squint at the screen. “Is it, uh, comfortable in there, at least?” Vertigo takes his time answering the question. It’s surreal, watching homescreen apps blip out of existence without human input, presumably deleted to save space. Goodbye bloatware. An art program opens in the background, and several other apps change icon. We all blink as the camera flashes. The resulting picture of us, bleary and open-mouthed, becomes the background of the homescreen. Vertigo has doodled hearts around us. “Not roomy. But it will do,” he chirps.

Had a brief desire to write some Mindhive today. Vertigo's still best boy.

#Mindhive #sci fi #writeblr #wip excerpt #dystopia #fictional ai is so much more fun than the real ones #i have a whole essay on why Vertigo would be considered an undesirable product by a capitalist system #the tl;dr is that artificial empathy and concern for workers would be considered disadvantageous in a market environment; no different #than when real people are concerned about human rights and quality of life over shareholder interests

[buccellato]

since plants can seemingly make any matter, even down to complicated replications of flesh (like with the salmon sandwiches), would it be possible for them to replicate a human? Like, not an independent but just a 3D-printed human? 🤔🤔

#trigun #trigun stampede #I can't imagine they would pop out alive because how horrifying that would *that* be #but imagine trying to formulate a specific meat and instead it's just oops! all human bits #stampede seems to sidestep this a bit by making it so a single plant produces incredibly specific compounds #but also they still managed to figure out how to make artificial salmon well enough to package and sell it so who knows #that would be a funny horror concept actually #imagine some plant engineer schmuck finding a single human hand floating in a tank on his daily rounds #and he cleans it out and files an incident report but every day he goes back there's a more extensive body growing #and no matter how much he tweaks or cleans the tank the plant keeps making this rapidly extending body anew every day #after a few weeks he realizes that the plant is replicating him specifically #and then one day he comes in and the tank is empty...but he knows deep down it's not because the plant stopped remaking him #and now he's certain there's another him in the facility hunting for him 😈😈 #anyways the plot twist would be the plant being mad about their saline solution mix being constantly slightly off or something

[apocketfullofhobbits]

can't stop thinking abt how the fact that declan mattered so little to his father that the asshole couldn't even be bothered to keep the memories of the day his son was born was supposed to make up for declan's whole shitty childhood

like hey kid u know what u just weren't worth the pain. do u feel better abt it now.

#like. for years he made declan feel like he didn't matter. #and then it gets confirmed #and that is somehow the emotional resolution? #trc #declan lynch #the whole getting rid of memories storyline was so unnecessary #such a poor attempt at artificially increasing the poor meow niall factor #like. it's like saying to every kid who got fucked up by the divorce 'oh but u parents suffered more! suck it up' #his parents lacked the emotional maturity to go through the break up and take care of their child at the same time and that's okay #happens all the time #it's okay to say that they fucked up. #u don't need to shift the blame to the child for refusing to see all the love he was supposedly showered with #yes he did that. because it's easier for a child's mind. #the conclusion wasn't supposed to be 'omg my father loved me so much i just refused to see it! now that i see it im happy and healed' #it's 'yeah my father was an asshole and my feelings abt it were valid but he was also a complicated person who did love me in his own way' #'it just wasn't enough to make him a good father and it wasn't my fault' #oh and i am forever mad abt the moth scene at the end #why are we making it abt niall? again #i have had enough of this dude #all that needed to be said abt him was said in dream thieves #he's just not intresting enough to keep bringing him up all the time #this is niall lynch hate blog