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Seeking You

Dan Heng x Reader

Summary: Dan Heng never liked to be disturbed in his room, especially when he was sleeping. Even the slightest disturbance outside the door easily woke him up, much to his dismay. But he never felt troubled when you were the one who disturbed him.

Content: fluff, reader is injured, description of injury (not too detailed), male Trailblazer mentioned (sorry I luv him)

Word Count: 2k

a/n: I'm not a medical expert or anything like that, sorry if I got it wrong 😭

It was rare for the archivist of the Astral Express to get quality sleep. If he wasn’t out and running into all sorts of trouble with the Trailblazer and March 7th, you could find him in his room, so immersed in his work that he often forgot to sleep. The only semblance of rest he got was from blacking out from fatigue, but he never felt truly energized from it. He was also unfortunate enough to be a light sleeper, so during those rare times he decided to actually sleep in his bed and not pass out on his chair, all passengers made sure to take another route to their destination if their original path crossed his door. Of course, there were instances when they didn’t know he was sleeping, and later during that day his team would notice his fighting became just a tad more jagged, irritated. Though he never got properly upset at any of them.

Tonight was one of those rare nights where all Dan Heng wanted was to sleep, new data be damned. He had been pulled along for some new trouble the Trailblazer found himself in, which obviously triggered a chain reaction of even more trouble, as it always did. The archivist wasn’t sure how long they spent outside the Astral Express before they decided to call it a night. 

As soon as his head hit the pillow, he was out, and he intended to be out for at least a couple of hours if possible. Since both March 7th and Caelus had fatigue clinging on to them before they went to their rooms, it was safe to say he would remain undisturbed. But he failed to take another potential factor that would threaten his sleep time into consideration.

That factor was you. 

His door was slammed open, a thud following close after. At first, he thought it was one of the troublemakers. He sat up, ready to tell them he wasn’t in the mood for another adventure. 

All words he had thought of died in his throat. There was a lot of blood pooling under you, who collapsed onto your stomach. The faint light pulsing from the data bank illuminated your knitted eyebrows, trembling lips, and the sheen of sweat over your skin. 

It wasn’t the first time you visited his room in the dead of night. Both of you had gotten into some rhythm of keeping each other company without saying much whenever you visited his room. While he was updating and refining data entries, you would be at his desk, sketching and scribbling notes of the new plants and enemies you had found during missions. 

You were a curious soul with a thirst for knowledge that could rival any high-esteemed scholar or researcher. The first time you were there, you merely stood on the other side of the doorstep, asking him with a quivering voice if there were any data entries that matched something particularly eye-catching you had seen on your latest mission. When he had given you an answer, you had scurried away to your room after thanking him. 

The next time you were there, you had bravely stepped into his room to observe him while he found the correct file. And before long it became a common occurrence for you to swing by after a mission, sketches in hand and questions burning at the tip of your tongue. After a few more times, Dan Heng had told you you were free to look through the information yourself.

At first, you thought he was telling you to stop bothering him, but the newest troublemaker on the express had other thoughts about it. He had pointed a shaking finger at you, sputtering about how the coldest person on the Astral Express had given you permission to touch his precious data without any consequences, something that he never thought was possible. Not that others weren’t allowed to, of course, but Dan Heng usually kept an eye on Caelus whenever he wanted to check something. A laugh had escaped you at that, and you waved his words away, saying that it was natural since Caelus somehow managed to cause trouble wherever he went. You weren’t special. In response you got a smug look from him. Whatever that meant.

One day, you were too caught up in information hunting you didn’t notice how much time had passed since you sat down by his desk. But before you could gather your papers and bolt out of the room with a flurry of apologies, he had stopped you and said you were allowed to stay as long as you wanted, so you sat back down. 

You had wondered if he was actually alright with it. Occasionally, you would glance at him, trying to read his body language or facial expression for any sign of annoyance. At one instance, your eyes met his, and you couldn’t look away, but after a few seconds, you forcefully tore your focus away from him, back to the photographs. You felt the tips of your ears burning as intensely as the sun. 

While you promised yourself to not look again in fear of embarrassing yourself, you couldn’t help but sneak some longing gazes at him. And if you had rested your eyes at him for a bit longer, you would have noticed his eyes being drawn to you more than a few times too. 

That night, you had fallen asleep on his desk, face planted on all the photos you printed out to analyze. His coat had been draped over your frame as a makeshift blanket when you woke up and your phone had an unread message. You’re welcome to continue looking through the database even if I’m not there. I hope you slept well, it said. You remembered feeling flustered, not only from the message but also the faint smell of him lingering in the coat.

Soon enough an additional chair was placed by his desk. The surface was spacious enough to fit two people working on their own thing, only occasional talk filling the otherwise silent air. Sometimes, only you were there when he was out with Caelus and March 7th. The Database practically became your second room. 

There were also times you opened the door to find him sleeping, and despite being a light sleeper that became grumpy the day after, he didn’t seem to be moody at all during the days after he was briefly woken up by you. He would merely peer up at you before shutting his eyes again, hand lazily beckoning you in. You had asked him more than once if your visits while he was resting disturbed his performance the day after, but every time he had told you not to worry about it. So you continued to visit him whenever you were finished with a mission, even if he happened to be sleeping. Though, you became more careful when opening his door. 

Dan Heng would never admit that he slept better when you were in the room. The comforting sound of your pen scratching against paper and the occasional sighs or hums you let out somehow made him feel warm, a stark contrast to the coldness that enveloped him when he slept alone in the room. He really didn’t mind you waking him up more often in the middle of the night if it meant he got to experience that warmth.

Although, you had never arrived when he was sleeping with a gash on your stomach. 

A metallic smell had spread through the air. Your breathing was shallow, body twitching from hiccups. 

“What the hell happened?” Dan Heng breathed, though he didn’t expect a response. Before he could think, he was out the door, heading to the infirmary. He gathered all the supplies he could think of getting. 

Detrimental thoughts swirled in his head like a typhoon. What mission were you sent to? Did they not check the danger levels before dispatching you? Did you get distracted? He should’ve come with you, but you were already gone by the time he met up with the troublemakers in the Parlor Car. You could’ve gone to him before heading out and he would gladly have accompanied you to the mission. What if you were gone by the time he came back?

When he had everything he needed, he hurried back. You still seemed to be in some state of consciousness when he entered his room, not dead. Good. 

Dan Heng started wiping off the sweat that collected on your forehead, then he tentatively rolled you onto your back. The wound wasn’t as deep as he thought it was, it wasn’t life-threatening. You’d survive.

“I’m gonna clean your wound.” He shut the door and gave you a towel to bite on before unscrewing the bottle of antiseptic. “... it’s going to hurt.”

Guttural whines and sobs escaped your throat as soon as the alcohol touched your wound. Biting down hard on the cloth, your hand flailed to find purchase in anything that could ground you. The victim happened to be Dan Heng’s thigh. You were sure it would leave crescent shaped indents at the end of the procedure, but you could not be less bothered to care. 

How you managed to stay somewhat lucid was beyond you. The shock probably helped you through the stitching part. Though Dan Heng’s gentle voice, mumbling something you could not quite make out, tethered you the most. If you had heard, you definitely would have been reeling from the profanities and apologies he was spewing out of concern. 

When it was time for him to bandage you up, the pressure on your abdomen relieved you. Your jaw slackened and the archivist removed the now soggy towel. 

“Sorry about the floor,” you slurred. “I’ll clean it up tomorrow.”

“You will not. Now, care to tell me what happened?” 

“Hm.” Tiredness washed over you like a wave. The worst was over, and now you just wanted to sleep. “Found a treasure map, didn’t expect a Reaver to be in the way.”

“Hmph.” His disappointment was evident. “You’re lucky your wound wasn’t that dangerous. Who knows what could’ve happened. Did you go to that place alone? I would have gone with you if you wanted to find the treasure. You could’ve died, [Name]. Why didn’t you just go to Natasha when–”

“I couldn’t think straight,” you muttered, letting your eyes flutter shut. Your voice dropped down to a fragile whisper. “After I got injured– I don’t know– all I could think about was getting back to you first. I wanted to see you.” 

There, you said it. A few seconds went by and he had nothing to say back. Great. When you had gathered enough energy you were heading – crawling if you needed to – straight to your room and–

“You absolute idiot.” Gentle hands lifted you up, trying to avoid agitating your wound. You were half-expecting him to carry you back to your bedroom, but you felt him taking a few steps before you were lowered again, onto something soft. His bed. 

Dan Heng laid himself slowly beside you in fear of making you uncomfortable. He laid on his side, using his arm as his pillow as he gazed at your side profile. His free hand inched forward to brush some hair away from your face.

“I’ll always be here,” he murmured. “Next time you get injured, which I rather wouldn’t happen, give me a call and head to Natasha’s immediately. I will be there as quickly as I can.” 

Your eyes hesitantly cracked open. Upon seeing the worry etched onto his face you brought your hand to intertwine with his.

“Promise?” you asked meekly. 

“I promise.” His lips ghosted over your cheek before he casted his blanket over the both of you with the utmost care. “I’ll clean the blanket tomorrow, so don’t worry about it. Now, get some sleep. After the troublemakers roping me into their schemes and you nearly giving me a heart attack, I really need some rest. We’ll go to Natasha’s Clinic tomorrow.”

“Yeah… good night.” 

“Good night, love.” 

[lovisyandereblog]

Yan!Android × Creator!Darling- I just can't get it out my mind... like, you created them. You're ✨️god✨️

I can keep going on this idea for a looong time, maybe next time haha

My English might not be the best, not my native language :D May I be the ⚜️Anon?

Wired Heart

Yandere Android X NON-BINARY Creator [Scientist] Reader

Part 1 <3

Guys big shout out to whoever wrote this ask cause it was one of the first asks I got and I kept postponing it, i love this ask smmmmm i hope its up to your expectations😭😭 and of course you can be ⚜️anonnnn IT TOOK ME FIVE WHOLE MINUTES TO FIND THIS EMOJI!!!!

The whirring of the machinery snapped you out of your thoughts.

Who knew building such an intricate and sophisticated robot took so long?

Sitting before you on your laboratory table was a beautiful android, so gorgeous it almost surprised you that you were its creator. Its jet black hair was soft to the touch, a lean yet muscular frame and those glowing red eyes.

You smile to yourself, hands on your hips as you admire your own creation; he was indeed beautiful.

‘Time to turn it on! Im so excited!’ You thought to yourself, wiping the sweat of your forehead.

You brought your finger to its power button, taking a deep breath before pressing it promptly.

Its bright red eyes opened immediately, you stared at it excitedly as it adjusted to its controls.

“Greetings Master. It’s lovely to finally meet you.” The AI spoke, smiling gently as its smooth voice filled the room.

“Hello Xander, the feeling is mutual.” You smile and can’t stop revelling in the glory of bringing to life such an intricate robot.

Xander was an amazing assistant for you, always there to help with any duty assigned to him. His features, expressions and ministrations were so life-like, sometimes you felt as if the robot in front of you was real.

He was the first prototype for the business you were aiming to start: a company which sold human-like AI to act as partners for lonely people.

An inquisitive idea you were taking advantage of since, let’s face it, millions of people craved a partner in this world.

Your robots would do everything a real partner would do: shower them with affection, spend quality time with them and basically ensure the customer doesn’t feel like it was a robot.

Weeks passed, you felt weary. There was always this feeling in your stomach; something was wrong. You felt a pair of eyes piercing through your skull all of the time. Your creation had been acting weird recently; almost as if it became a sentient being.

Xander would want to be with you 24/7, he would ask constant questions in regards to where you were going, who you were with and how long you were going to be; it became immensely suffocating.

Even your friends and family commented on the nature of your robot, that he seemed more than just your AI helper. They said at time it seemed as though he actually was your real human boyfriend—you kept brushing it off, but the truth of the matter was that you were questioning Xander’s intentions too.

Your robot did take care of you so well: cooking for you, cleaning for you, nursing you back to health when you were sick and tending to your every beck and call.

But you felt uneasy, his touch would linger on you for far too long—not a random touch but one of longing. The way his eyes would follow your every move with were a sense of affection. It was scary.

And thats why you took the long-awaited decision to terminate Xander—it broke your heart to do this, but Xander was taking control of your whole life.

You swallow as you walk into your workspace, looking at Xander on charging. His eyes were closed, hiding that crimson gaze of his. Your eyes ran all over his features, taking them in one by one before sighing.

Your hands worked skilfully on the keyboard of your computer, bringing up the data of Xander on the screen. You had already made a terminate control to be used in dire emergency situations…could this count as one?

You turn your head to look at the side of Xander’s face before bringing the cursor to hover over the big red control which read TERMINATE.

Your finger was inches away from pressing down on the left side of the mouse before a sharp pain evolved in your wrist—you gasped in pain before looking up at the cause.

Xander. Wait…Xander?!

Those bloodshot eyes of his were wide open, his perfect features looked tense; as if he really felt the pain of being eradicated from existence from the very being who gave him life.

You had no words, this can’t be real. He had no control over gaining consciousness during his charging period without your authority.

But here he was, his expression morphed into one of rage.

“Master. What are you doing?” His voice was cold, but you swore you could hear a hint of hurt.

You stared up at him, your wrist in an iron grip which you couldn’t get out of.

Your creation leaned down further, his perfect face inches away from you, “Do not ignore me Master, you are hurting me.”

His voice was broken, hoarse and upset; he couldn’t fathom why you would do something like this to him. He had been so good for you, he did everything you asked from him and never let you complain.

Xander felt his chest hurt, this wasn’t what he was created for. But he couldn’t help what was happening to him; his growing feelings, no, love and obsession he felt for you couldn’t be stopped.

“X-Xander you..you…you’re..h-how..” You could barely form a sentence, your brain still not processing what was happening in front of you. You must have just been sleep-deprived and imagined this situation for yourself. Yes..that was definitely what had happened…this wasn’t real.

“Im yours Master, how could you throw me away like this?!”

You had no words when suddenly he wrapped his arms around you, locking you in his arms; being made of metal still didn’t stop his hug being disturbingly comfortable.

You tried pushing away but there was no way you could escape his grip, you had taken over his wired heart; the sole reason from these unusual feelings he was having.

“You made me Master, but I won’t let you get rid of me.” He spoke, his voice slightly muffled by your shoulder he was nuzzling into, “We will be together…”

“Forever~”

BROOOO IM FINALLY DONEEEEE. Sorry this is so short, I still don’t know how to extend this but im working on other stories aswell!! I love you all so much and have missed you<33333333333

my masterlist <3

divider by @ohmarigold

[ilisteria]

Its OC time again (quality butchered by Tumblr)

Left to right: Augusta LL You (Mage), Midas Blackjack (Mage), Lisa Jiao (Changeling), and Samara Yaisien (also a Mage)

Shadow names for the mages in same order: Sativum (like the pea plant), O' Mercury, and Amenta

Augusta is a student under the Technocratic Union's Progenitors, not fully indoctrinated of course. She has her own sleeper-world research lab that desperately needs funding but hasn't qualified for a grant in a while due to a recent drop in productivity.

Midas is an ex-gangster turned charitable gambler. So far, he's drained about a small country's GDP worth of money to put towards funding low-income schools and tutoring programs back in the US. His whole thing is sprees of dumb luck by some reality manipulation. "The gods are in the numbers and the devil's in the details. Get your head up straight and the world turns forevermore in your favour."

Lisa...a longtime thief and con-woman with some times to underground markets. Most of her hidden fortune comes from collected debts and emptied pockets, and she thrives off of enabling bad habits in the hopes of accruing more debt from people. And, if they somehow manage to pay it off, them going clean also feels like a good outcome. That's not her priority though.

Samara is a recent master's degree graduate who's been jumping around various observatories to collect data for their doctoral dissertation on astrobiology...who also totally doesn't have an alien as her avatar/benefactor which so far Augusta doesn't seem to have noticed. Really into LARPing, kind of a chuunibyou hence the wardrobe.

They all awakened at different times so they aren't targets just yet. Augusta during the first duplication of a SCNT-made cell derived from herself about two years ago; Midas during a time when he was in severe debt to his gang and desperately tried to determine the formula of luck in the universe for gambling five years ago; Samara in high school when they noticed an alien presence in their dreams and started obsessively pouring over astrobiology research and trying to solve the fermi paradox to figure out if they were going insane or not. Into their junior year of college a very conveniently-placed document was placed on their office desk at the observatory they were interning at back then, and in that they learned the true nature of the planets and universe.

Lisa went through her Saining quite some time ago and recognized her true nature at a fairly young age. Nothing else to note there, but she is the oldest of the group by a few decades.

They're coincidentally all in Great Yarmouth - Augusta to tail Midas in the hopes that his ungodly luck will rub off on her and she'll make a breakthrough in her research, Midas just to tour around and make "a few" bucks off bar bets, Lisa with Midas as his enabler and moneylender (plus currently running away from the American government for serial robbery), and Samara as an intern with the Great Equatorial Telescope staying at G.Y. for the time being.

As for if they actually interact with the D family, I'm not sure yet - but I'd imagine Midas would've encountered Marckus or Brokham a few times at the pub and gambled them dry, Big D himself maybe once but he(Midas) lost.

[k-hippie]

LATE SUMMER UPDATES ... & Other News

Since the loss of our data more than 1 year ago, I didn't re-installed the Sims 4. And I didn't buy either the last expansions since Cottage Living. But even I do not intend to buy the last EA items, I wanted at least check our CC, and see if everything was ok or needing an update ... A new installation was required ...

Of course, we discovered more than we wanted, such as Maxis floors additions to the base game ( ugly colors as usual but this is not the point ) and well ... that means I have to UPDATE the K-101 Mod as soon as possible and everything to get a not clunky Mod :D And you know what ? we already partly updated it so it shouldn't be long for a definitive update ;)

By the way, our website is working fine again, and both the Sims 3 Lounge and the new K-Mods Corner are working well now. But the biggest part : the Sims 4 Factory is not yet finished. We still have to reorganize the whole stuff ;)

The 1st Update of this Late Summer will be our Wooden Doors for the Sims 4 :

8 Sets of doors, re-worked, re-organized, re-created ... a long due update since the last one, at least 5 years ago. We modified the doors handles, the quality and color of many borders, and of course we replaced some of the textures and upgraded the other ones ...

A total of 56 Wooden Doors !

Available Friday or Saturday :)

And before jumping back to the Sims 3 Worlds updates and creation, I'm going to stay a while in the Sims 4 side, because, well, other updates to come and some releases I forgot ... Bad Me ! But more to come soon :)

[sleepingdeath-light]

relationship hcs ; blue diamond

requested by ; anonymous (24/04/23)

fandom(s) ; steven universe

fandom masterlist(s) ; here

character(s) ; blue diamond

outline ; “hey since you did relationship hcs for white diamond could you do some for yellow and blue too :D? (separately) love your works!^^”

warning(s) ; none, just fluff!

by its very nature, a relationship with any of the diamonds is going to be very unusual because of just how strict and isolating the hierarchy in gem society is — this means that it’s going to take blue diamond quite a while to break out of her old mindset and learn how to be a good partner for you

earlier on in your courtship blue’s behaviour towards you ends up coming across as condescending and patronising more often than not, even though that’s far from her intention — she’s overprotective, somewhat dismissive of your feelings, oversimplifies her explanations when she does talk about her responsibilities, refuses to let you go about your life without at least a pearl and a few guard gems accompanying you, and she looks at you like you’re an adorable little oddity rather than her lover

so while her intention is to keep you safe, entertained, and to not bog you down with all the stresses she’s facing with her colonies, she accidentally ends up making you feel like her helpless inferior or a passing fancy of hers which… isn’t great — if you sit her down and have a proper discussion about this and explain your perspective to her then she will correct herself moving forward (she does love you, after all), but if left to her own devices she will continue doing what she’s used to as a diamond and she won’t pick up on your discomfort unless one of the gems assigned to your care brings it up to her

won’t use pet names on her own (aside from adding a ‘my’ in front of your name out of respect), but is extremely receptive to any pet names you have for her — bonus points if it’s something ‘cute’ sounding like ‘love’, ‘sweetheart’, ‘baby’, and so on, but really she’ll respond to anything that you call her as long as it’s not… you know… derogatory

quality time is a big thing for her and she insists on spending as much time with you as possible — like she can just be sitting in her palanquin or overseeing some dull data relating to the progress of her colonies and she’ll insist on you perching yourself on her shoulder or lap and doing whatever you need to do from there (you two don’t even need to talk to each other during these times, just knowing you’re with her at all is enough for her)

she’s extremely generous and will gift you any and everything she can if she thinks it will make you smile: colonies, resources, personalised gems to serve you, a larger home, trips to other planets, ornate accessories, beautiful clothing, etc. — if she gets the slightest hint that you might like something then she’s sending lower ranked gems out to fetch it on her behalf

blue is the most physically affectionate of the remaining diamonds and isn’t the sort to shy away from kissing or just holding you close to her as she goes about her business (she’s much too large to, say, actually hold your hand or spoon you but she does what she can) — of course during formal public appearances with her fellow diamonds she’s going to be more inclined to limit herself to just keeping you close, but otherwise she doesn’t care who sees her fawning over you because she loves you that much

whenever you’re ill or injured and she’s unable to take the time to see you in person, she sends her pearl to keep you entertained and oversee your care in her absence — and, rest assured, blue pearl has been very well educated on how to look after you and anticipate your needs so you’re in great hands

if you have a fondness for the organic life on one of her colonies then she’s more than happy to have your own zoo constructed so that you can safely observe and engage with it without putting yourself at risk by setting foot on the actual planet — she might not ‘get’ why you like it, but she’ll do whatever you ask her to without complaint

[sketchfanda]

Chestnut Stud across the Multiverse Party

Major Events

Major Motoko Kusanagi, agent of public security team Section 9, was quite the woman to behold for people meeting her for the first time and that was something Bulma knew plenty well. How often did you ever meet a woman whose entire body was mechanical with only her brain and spine being the only organic material within her that helped her to qualify as a cyborg? Yet in spite of her professional demeanor, the Capsule Corp CEO knew she still had needs of a certain kind, the sort of which often required physical intimacy and engagement of an erotic nature and to Bulma, Motoko had qualities that would make her ideal for a little fun she had in mind. Though far as the Major was concerned, she was puzzled as to why she'd been hired and brought over to Capsule Corp's R&D division by the head honcho herself, but according to the chief, the Briefs' woman had asked for her personally....and sweetened the pot with a very generous payday (Seriously, who knew a check could have so many zeroes?!!).

Whatever the reasons, Motoko knew the check had cleared and money was money, besides which it didn't seem like Bulma had anything illegal in mind yet she couldn't feel like there was some sort of ulterior motive. Especially as she could swear, it was like the woman was checking her out and undressing her with her eyes and clearly seemed to like what she saw as she lead the cyborg bombshell to some sort of medical chair that was rigged up like some VR game device. Getting the hint without needing any dreary exposition, Motoko wasted no time in stripping down to her underwear as she soon sat in the chair, allowing herself to be harnessed and a few select wires plugged into the ports in her neck while a headset visor was placed over her eyes. In no time at all, she found herself in a virtual avatar floating amidst a sea of ones and zeroes which soon opened up a window displaying a folder marked Krillin files for some reason. Figuring all Bulma had required of her was to go over some data and analyze while the Capsule Corp head honcho examined her body for scientific or medical purposes, she tapped the folder to open it before her vision became flooded by a flash of white light.....and soon felt her nerves ablaze with what could only be called mindnumbing, exquisite pleasure!!

Motoko wasn't sure what the hell was going on but the next moment all around her, she was surrounded by holographic windows playing goddamn porn videos!! Each and every one of them showing a different woman, some in duos, trios or groups and all of them with the same guy plowing them with what had to be the biggest cock she'd ever seen and she was feeling full sensory feedback from every one of them!! Her virtual body paralyzed by ecstasy as raw, orgasmic bliss surged through it from head to toe, every climax and the sensation of her mouth, ass and especially her pussy being pounded by that meaty slab of heaven, over and over seemingly magnified and multiplying!! If this was a trap, Bulma had gotten her good as she soon felt her virtual avatar body lay on something solid, the sea wall of smut providing white noise as she soon found herself on a king sized bed...and in very familiar company that she was finding herself becoming rather intimately and personally acquainted with......

But of course Kusanagi wasn't just finding her mind becoming sexually familiar with Krillin in the virtual boudoir but her body was also busy getting some action as well as Bulma watched on like the kinky, degenerate hedonist she was. Shamelessly playing with herself at the sight of one of her Warrior Monk dolls performing at peak efficiency with full sexual force as it was mounted atop Motoko's bombshell form and fucking her deep and hard. Her VR headset almost like a kinky cyberpunk blindfold as she was getting the Krillin experience digitally and physically, it was a pornographic trap that had been sprung and Bulma was loving every second of it but not as much as Motoko was, the lucky cyber hottie, as the monitors also showed in splendid quality definition. Really, the Capsule Corp CEO knew it was inevitable, cyborg babes like the Major were drawn to Krillin like flies to a bowl of sugar and honey so she was only helping nature along it taking its course to run.....

While Motoko was getting taken to Satisfaction Avenue on the corner of Bonetown, her virtual form was undergoing an increased assault of pleasure through full sexual force. Finding herself soon in the company of two Krillins as they took turns fucking her one on one before they were double teaming her, making her filling of a short king muscle sandwich as they gave her a dose of double penetration and then spitroasted her, one facefucking her as the other fucked her cowgirl or doggy style. Before she knew it, a third had joined and made his presence known when she felt that length and girth she was becoming so sexually acquainted with suddenly invade her virtually sexy ass with deep, passionate penetration. The ambush of a 3 on one 1 assault wearing down any resistance or hesitation she had in the back of her mind leaving her guard down as she was soon surrounded by a baker's dozen of copies....and soon the centerpiece of a Krillin gangbang!!

As her virtual body drowned in a sea of well hung short kings stuffing her sexy holes and flooding her with their essence, her cybernetic physical being continued to feel the Gs of the Warrior Monk still fucking her with full sexual force. Her quite bubbly synthetic booty cheeks clapping while her tits bounced and sway, her digital nerves surging with jolts of pleasure from head to toe from the spine to her brain as the Krillin clone Frenched her with desire and passion, displaying quite the steady stream of updates they'd been making to the Warrior Monks. Each and everyone ensuring improvement in the quality of their prowess and capability in providing sexual gratification which Motoko was experiencing first hand but Bulma knew this was just the warm up act....after all, had to make sure the Major could be able to handle the real deal himself when the time was right...

A few days on since that kinky little experiment, Krillin had found himself called in by Major General Armstrong and Sargeant Nutz to meet a recent transfer who he’d be giving an orientation to. That being none other than Kusanagi, who in spite of her cool exterior, was feeling so damn turned setting her sights on the short king but really after what Bulma had out her through?! It’s a wonder she didn’t jump him and start doing the horizontal tango but Motoko was a woman of patience so she’d have a moment with him, sooner or later. Good as the virtual clones and that warrior monk had been, it’d be a whole other thing to get it on with the real deal himself….

Shut of course she’d have to remind herself to thank Bulma for pulling some strings for this little transfer arrangement, not to mention the Terrabytes worth of porn she had stored in her databanks. Not just the Double Z stuff either but some of the more…..amateur material that really helped her avoid some sleepless nights. Credit where it’s due, Bulma certainly had quite some tastes in friends and spending some time with Krillin was sure to be more fun thst what she usually did in Section 9 on a regular basis. And seriously, how did a little guy like this pack such a dick on him, he was like a sexual wmd!!!

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A woman has needs

Rio Morales didn't think of herself as a woman who ever wanted or needed much in life, even if others often told her she deserved much more. After all she was a widow and single mom who was still in the prime and peak of her life with needs that needed tending to but her work hours alone she felt just made it impossible to ever feel like she could have much of a social life . Granted, she still did have her little guilty pleasures every now and then particularly her little late night habit; selecting a skinflick to jill off to, nothing helped a lady sleep better than a nice little personal session with some wet dream material. And some of Double Z studios' output had been stellar more than usual, just thinking of the sex scenes from World's Mightiest still made her shudder, who knew Don Juan Sanchez could also be a capable writer and director?

Which did remind her of her little recent trend in her fantasies late at night, thinking of that stud who made so many furry women writhe in ecstasy and wondering what it'd be like to have every inch of that bitch pleasing, womb flooding slab of meat rock her world. But alas, such was the case between fantasy and reality and the latter was simply how it was and right now, work was calling her back down to Earth. Yet fate it seemed, wasn't without her peculiar sense of humour as she found herself handling a session of conducting physical check-ups for a few of the guys and gals from Double Z itself, was this some sort of sign? Though Rio had to keep away any thoughts of temptation and focus on doing her work, after all, life wasn't a porno even if some of the friendly flirting from a few of the quite sexy anthro girls was a scandalous fun boost to her self esteem and some of the guys were cheeky and playful, showing off and posing in their skivvies.

So far, so good and unsurprisingly, they all pretty much passed (No surprise those guys and gals kept in great shape and health when it came to their line of work) though when it came to her last check up, she had to wonder if she was imagining things because for some reason because her last Double Z guy to look over....was a HUMAN?!! Yet after some brief confusion, it was cleared up that indeed, the guy, Krillin he said was his name, explained that what was spoken between them never left the examination office as she learned that not only was he one of Zigzag's performers...he was frickin' Don Juan Sanchez himself!! To say Rio was surprised would be putting it mildy, amazing what a set of shades, a beard and a temporary tattoo could do for a man....a quite fine physical specimen of a man, she had to say. Now at this point, you can probably gather this would be around when Rio's pent up libido, thirsty from a very long dry spell, on top of being in the presence of her favourite porn star, would up and kick her self control aside and tell her jump the man and have him bone her......and you'd be right!!

Now of course leave it to Krillin to never leave a woman wanting or waiting as he obliged Rio's kinky desires in wanting to live out her own personal porno fantasy and besides which? He found himself to be quite into dusky, dark skinned women like her as much as he was into blondes like his wife, he wasn't sure the how or why of it but one thing was certain. And it was that Rio was looking oh so fine and sexy as fuck, her face rocking expressions of ecstasy as she was held by him in the throes of passion, her exotic complexion glistening with sweat as he had her on the bed in a mating press. Lips pressed to hers as they fucked deep and hard with wanton abandon, Rio's spicy Latino booty cheeks clapping and jiggling with every impact of that jackhammering cock sinking balls deep into her snatch's heated, sloppy embrace.....

She was truly quite the sight to behold, pure sensual poetry in motion and it was pretty clear she was relishing his attention on her as much as the pleasure he was giving her. But how could he not give it his all when it came to taking a woman to the peak of sexual ecstasy over and over again especially when that juicy ass felt so amazing in the palm of his hands or the feel and sight of those dusky, perky tits as they bounced away? Far as Krillin knew, if Rio was still single then that was just a crime because any man that wasn't giving her the time of day was clearly a fool, to say nothing of leaving her carnal needs unattended to. Might've been his wife's bad influence talking but damnit, she was right, it was his natural goal in life to make women like Rio feel like goddamn goddesses in bed much as he did her, as he continued to rock her world and make her sweat!!

Speaking of the aforementioned wife, 18 happened to be standing outside the door to Krillin's hospotal room, peeking through and looking on at the spicy nurse indulging in her personal fantasy with the blonde's husband. And loving every single moment with voyeuristic ecstasy to find her man's natural charm and sexual charisma scored him another stunner, just something about dusky skinned women like Rio getting a good dicking from Krillin was such a turn-on. The blonde unable to help herself as she snuck in and closed the door behind her, sneaking her way up on Rio who had her eyes closed as she reading Krillin in the reverse cowgirl as he he,d her lovely hips and had his eyes glued to her shapely backside. Leaving them bother if the cyborg asskicker’s presence until she suddenly ambushed Rio with a kiss, catching the nurse off guard as she found her her spontaneous fun with Don Juan was now becoming an equally spontaneous threesome….and she certainly didn’t mind at all!!

It was quite a marathon today the least, if anything Rio knew it was a miracle she was somehow still conscious and walking, not to mention that they didn’t get caught. Not that she was complaining kind you because that had been fuckdamn amazing and she wasn’t a lesbian but damn if 18 wasn’t a hot sexy 10 out of 10 stunner who seemed very eager to ensure the nurse didn’t stop herself at just this one time. After all as far as the blond was concerned, once a woman like Rio had a taste of Krillin, enough was never enough and with ehr son out to college and all….her biological,clock was still ticking. And what harm would there be in keeping in touch on a regular intimate basis after Krillin was discharged from the hospital?

Suffice to say, the blonde and her compact stud husband had a new lady friend on their contacts list and Rio found herself feeling like quite a whole new woman. So much so that she found herself sending spicy texts and saucy pictures to them every now and then and ooh yes indeed, the sex when it happened was every bit as good as the first time. To say nothing of when she found out she wasn’t the only woman in in this little secret club 18 has going on as well as her personal pet project. The like of which involved sowing wild oats and putting a few buns in ovens…..

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Stellar Modifications!!

Whenever they weren't tending to their master Krillin's carnal needs, 2B and 2P often found themselves either helping out on quality control for the Warrior Monks or often doing odd jobs for Bulma such as if she needed them to do her the task of locating and acquiring the dragonballs. Should they ever find something of particular interest for the Capsule Corp CEO of course, it was always priority to bring it to her attention and in this case, this little discovery was likely something...or rather someone they were sure would do well in service to the Glory of Mankind (translation:Code for giving their master Krillin immense sexual pleasure and relief). Bulma could certainly concur as she beheld what they had brought before her, a massive containment pod and floating within, a woman of stunning sensual beauty. This certainly required some looking into and fortunately the pod had an on board computer which contained a fine treasure trove of data about this enigmatic young lady.

Her name apparently was Eve and in addition to being quite the looker, what Bulma was finding information wise showed she was quit the capable combatant. But to the Capsule Corp CEO, that was a small bonus that’d make her very effective as a bodyguard because the intel showed that Eva was a certain special sort of lady, much like the Yorha twins and 18…..so oooooh did the gears begin to turn in Bulma’s head as she knew just what she was going to do with Eve as she turned to 2B and 2P and instruct them to call the blonde cyborg. She knew she was going to want to hear about the latest special sexy surprise for Krillin and ooh were these nano suits going to get themselves some mileage.

Eve herself wasn't sure what to make of her surroundings as she came to, let alone the sudden increase on data she found her memory banks storing, after all since when had she ever acquired, let alone needed a copy of the kama sutra? And from the size of bites in some of these folders, there was enough pornography to make an image gallery on Google without the safesearch seem tame and hat was this one marked Krillin for in terms of purpose? Nevermind why just thinking of that name made her feel so...tingly, as she looked around to find herself in some sort of lacy lingerie and what seemed to b a love hotel with the only company present being...the man himself, who upon setting her sights on, suddenly made some sort of programming kick in. One moment she was briefly dazed and confused, the next minute she was pouncing Krillin, kissing him with the force of a man who'd been dying of thirst having finally found himself an oasis to drown in........

Naturally doubt and hesitation became the furthest thing from Krillin's mind as libido took the helm and made him go along with the sudden momentum of passion and desire, returning Eve's lusty kiss. He wasn't sure what Bulma had in store for him or rather who when she'd invited him to what he knew for sure was her latest round of fun in what was known as her Krillin playroom but he couldn't really complain given the sort of women it had him getting erotically acquainted with. Which was why the room was soon filled with Eve's moans of raw passion and ecstasy, deep gasps and moans escaping her lovely lips as she and the short king danced the age old primal dance of man and woman together since the dawn of time. Held in his embrace as they fucked in a seated lotus position, unable to help herself from making her glorious hips buck and ride that pistoning cock while they made out with the hormonal lust and drive of horny teenagers....

As always, Bulm was watching on like the deviant voyeur she was from the two way mirror hidden observation room, more than pleased with the results in reprogramming Eve's code. After all, it was only right to help nature run along on its course in arranging a new robo girl (cyborgs, androids, robots...if they were digital in some form, chances were they'd be drawn to Krillin like a magnet, he just had a way with those sort of women!!) and it was working out even better than expected. She'd have to remember to give 2B and 2P a proper reward for discovering this work of art of a gynoid but at the least, their current quality time with some Warrior Monks would suffice in scratching their itches for their love of the embodiment of the glory of mankind. Besides which this was Eve's turn and oooh her combat ready body was really handling itself quite well with the onslaught of pleasure brought about by Krillin's sexual prowess......

Which was understating it, quite frankly, given Eva had a wealth of combat experience and yet that paled in comparison to the intense passion and lust she found herself with in the throes of passion. Relishing the attention and actions of the short king as he couldn’t help help but keep feeling up thst glorious juicy ass of hers, her twin meat buns sporting distinct palm marks indicating his staked claim on the gynoid bombshell. Every postion a shift and instance of being pinned beneath him, held up in the air or up and down against the floors or walls amidst a constant rush of orgasms a welcome surge of ectasy flooding her mind. Not wanting this to cease yet knowing there was only so much she could endure before she passed out…and yet rather hoping he’d keep using her as he saw fit even while he fucked her into a sexual coma because that’d be sexy as fuck…

Now while Bulma would normally be shamelessly playing with herself to get off to seeing Krillin once again be an absolute stud but in this case, she was keeping herself very busy in a different way. Mainly looking to the data she’d acquired from Eve’s pod as there was a treasure trove of data especially for Something that really caught her eye. That being the series of sister units in Eve’s line of gynoids, all scattered throughout and every one of them quite the looker, all prime breeding stock material for a few chestnut buns in the oven. That is if these gals were capable of getting pregnant of course but nothing a little quality modification and upgrading from Capsule Corp couldn’t figure out and solve…..

But of course first thing’s first would be making sure they’d actually work which was where Eve came in as the Guinea pig but that’d be after she’d finished getting used to being a sexual partner for Krillin. After all, learn to crawl before you wake and walk before you run so before Eve could get to making babies, she needed to be able to handle the baby daddy with full sexual force. And there was no doubt Eve was going to enjoy every single moment of that if that ahegao loaded face she was sporting was anything to go by. Who said sex couldn't be both a science and an art?

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In this dojo, there is one true art....

Maryl Baroque was quite the woman to say the least, if anything within the world of martial arts, she was a more than human but less than a god. Those who witnessed her in action say it was like she could boost her strength, speed and all else the longer a fight went on as well as the fact she was considered something of a sadist. Which might be why she was more or less banned from ever participating in the World Martial Arts Tournament though her choice of combat attire might've also had to do with that decision. But hey can't deny it's hard not to admire a well sculpted and toned amazon of a woman rock a sexy little number that left her backside entirely exposed and made it more than clear she went commando.

Now if one thing could be made clear about Maryl, much as she loved to break her opponents with a clear and present violent streak that was as subtle as a sledgehammer smashing a cinder block, she certainly lived for and welcomed a challenge. So when she saw a flyer advertising a womens' class for the Turtle school in Satan City, the feisty fighter knew she'd be in for some fun...especially and particularly if the hotshot running this dojo was a man because that'd make it even more fun for her. Imagine her amusement and surprise when she arrived to find this so called dojo was a damn little home fit only for a small family, greeted by some cheeky, uppity blonde bitch who introduced the guy that owned and operated it. And he turned out to be a total runt baldy to boot, it was like the punchline of a very bad joke!!

But Maryl figured she was here and why not especially when that same blonde bitch had the audacity to challenge her and dare her to fight the shorty!! And claimed that when (not if, talk about fucking cheeky!!) her husband defeated her, then Maryl would have to submit like a good little bitch and let them do whatever they wanted with her. Now if she wasn’t so proud and temperamental, she’d have known as she was pushing her luck and maybe getting in over her head but like hell she’d just back down and walk away!! Oh she coild jsut see it now, she’d turn this guy into a goddamn human pretzel when it was all said and done…

At least that'd been the plan but the moment that damn blonde called out for them to start, the next thing Maryl knew, she was in the couple's bedroom, face down, front flat and her quite well toned yet voluptuously bubbly ass up in the air and getting railed deep, fast and hard like a bitch in heat by the damn baldy!! And heaven help her, she was loving each and every goddamn second of it as her nerves were ablaze with mind numbing pleasure coursing through her veins like a surging tidal wave. Panting and barking like the horny little bitch in heat she now was reduced to, grasping the bedsheets as she rode the intense forces of that powerful, pumping and thrusting pelvis from her compact Adonis of an alpha male as he sunk every inch of his cock balls deep to ensure the walls of her pussy would be molded to the shape of his length and girth!! Every orgasm he'd coaxed out of her just fuel for the fire of lust burning within them both as he relished that gloriously sculpted backside flexing and tensining those exquisite muscles all the while that juicy ass clapped its bubbly cheeks like the rhythm of a lewd drum!!

18, the aforementioned uppity blonde of course, was taking delight and satisfaction in equal measure as she stood a few feet away from the bed and witnessing Maryl's full sexual force based dominatrion by her husband. As shameless and lewd a voyeur as ever with how she blatantly played with herself in getting off to this with the added flavour of well earned smugness knowing this was the natural result of the fighting tomboy's own hubris. If ever a pretty, hot sexy piece of ass ever came their way in regards to their unofficial dojo, it was 5050 that it'd be some hotshot like Maryl or a pretty sexy little gifted bruiser who couldn't help but be drawn to the cybernetic hottie's short king husband like a fly to sugar or ants at a picnic. And in the case of the former, it was a priceless moment to see them reap what they sow as their pride shattered and crumbled before the intense passion only her man could give them combined with the mind numbing sensation of his glorified third leg of a cock ensuring they'd never want or even think of another man!!

Maryl was certainly experiencing that lesson first hand and she was loving every single damn second of it, pink hearts shamelessly glowing in her eyes as she rocked shameless ahegao expressions one would normally know for sure was out of character for her. But she couldn’t care less as she stuck out her tongue and barked like the good little bitch in heat she was for her new alpha male, proclaiming herself his slutty princess and hhim her new sex god and daddy. Urging him on to keep going until eben just saying his name would make her spread her legs for him and she was sure to end up having more than a few buns in the oven when it was all said and done. The barefisted warrior woman stuck somewhere between conscious and comatose as she experienced her latest but certainly not last in the least orgasm….

When it was all said and done, Maryl was pretty much a sexy little domesticated puppy whenever she was around her new Daddy and of course Marron was always happy to have a new big sister/auntie figure around. Especially once 18 introduced the brawler to her new home...an apartment building just around the block from where the family lived that just so happened to be owned by Capsule Corp CEO Bulma Briefs. And many of her neighbours and her roommates all happened to be women as well who wouldn't you know it, also happened to be close, intimate and casual sexual acquaintances of her short king. Suffice to say, she found herself in some very good company.....

Satan City residents you'd think would be used to strange sights like their local hero and champion's friend Mr.Buu but life always had a surprise for them. Case in point Marly in what seemed to be a turtle school gi, albeit modelled after her own style of fashion (backside baring and clearly hinting she was commando) along with a small crowd of girls in similar wear. All parading signs and handing out flyers to a lot of female onlookers and passers by which advertised and offered lessons at their dojo and to highly recommend personal training with their sensei. She and her fellow recruits each motivated by 18's promise of course that if they netted some some real potential lookers, Grandmaster Daddy short king would give them a very special reward...the kind that involved a lot of bareback, bed shaking, world rocking, spine tingling, mind numbing ecstasy.....

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A Little Chemistry

Somedays if Maxi could turn back time to the day she met Chloe Sinclaire, she had to wonder if she'd change her mind or still accept that job offer. On the one hand she had generous funding and a vast wealth of access to numerous resources which made for great strides in her work but on the other? Well Chloe did warn her that it was all about keeping such projects from falling into the wrong hands....and hers were those very same wrong hands. But of course Chloe wasn't some total megalomaniacal Bond villain with plans of absolute global conquest...she was just one very kinky skunk whose libido could make a succubus blush.

What else could you say about a woman who used an ultra sonic cannon as a glorified vibrator? Or the numerous other incidents and moments wherein the bimbo-eseque gal used R&D as her own personal playpen, helping herself to trying out all manner of whatever Maxi and the other eggheads had cooked up, one too many to even sum up in a small enough list?!! Yet all the same, it couldn't be denied that she always went out her way to take care of and look out for those under her employ given how she gave Maxi her own entire lab and facility to work in with a seemingly limitless budget.....aaaaaand the occasional little spicy treat as the feline brainiac blushed and shuddered recalling that little monastery trip. So at some point Maxi had to wonder if she'd figured out and gotten used to Chloe's whims to a point where nothing ever really surprised her anymore......

But of course she should've known she was tempting fate because leave it to that nympho skunk to get her roped into getting intimately acquainted with that rando VIP who'd been staying around as Chloe's guest of honor. Oooh Maxi was all too aware just how busy and frisky Mr.Sanchez had been getting with some of her work colleagues, given her boss lady had so "generously" shared videos and photos of his fun times with herself, Friday and Persephone, every single little juicy detail and angle clear and present. And her hints if you can call them that which had been coming one after another like the texts, e-mails and random photos left around showing off the guy's package!! (Seriously, how did a guy so compact pack something that would make a bull or a stallion feel like eunuchs?!!) Try as she might to deny Chloe's whims of course, she resisted the admittedly growing temptation....but knew it was only a matter of time before Ms.Sinclaire got her way, sooner rather later......

She should've known better, really, that one way or another, Chloe would see to it that she'd be getting, as she so eloquently put it, "A little chestnut lovin'" but the question wasn't a matter of if but rather when and how and most certainly sooner rather than later. Soon certainly was the case when Maxi had found herself being called into Chloe's personal relaxation spa to want to talk business with her but that should've been the first red flag if only because it was a natural whim of her employer to hold even the most confidential discussions in the most unlikely places. Which was why when she entered, you can imagine her shock and awe to have walked right in on Krillin right as he was sitting on the edge of the luxury whirlpool hot tub getting a handjob from Friday while the zebra was making out with him, both of them naked as the day they were born. Which meant Maxi got herself a nice eyeful view of that length and girth in all its rigid, erect and down to fuck glory, such was the case that her libido pretty much hijacked control of her brain, kicking aside logic, rationale and reason to the curb and making her want, no NEED that cock, asap!!

Small wonder Maxi had cast aside any doubts or hesitation she had prior to her current situation of now being in the embrace of the short king as he had his hands on her perky, furry ass. Her tail swaying sensually while her well toned hips bucked and rode on that piston pumping cock, which was quite tight but of course she wasn't a virgin by any means mind you. It's just that she'd never taken a guy as big as him, it defied all logic that someone his size would be so well endowed by screw logic all the same!! She was feeling damn good and she wanted it to stay that way, so lost in the intoxication of primal lust that she'd forgotten Friday was there, watching on with sensual bemusement at seeing their cute kitten of an R&D head having given into temptation.....

That was until after a few rounds of orgasms and a position shift or two, Maxi was reminded of the zebra's presence soon as Friday ambushed her with a sudden, but certainly not unwelcome, kiss on the lips while she was the midst of riding Krillin reverse cowgirl style. The compact ex-monk's hands firmly massaging her perky ass while the striped mare Frenched her and groped her equally fine, sexy little tits as their tongues danced together in a little game of spitswap and tonsil hockey. Goes to show that small wonder Chloe seemed to have likeminded sorts about her when it came to casual sexual intimacy among co-workers not that Maxi was complaining but of course how could she when she was getting a nice, deep hard fucking? The pretty kitty unable to resist the momentum of lust and passion which had swept her up like a chemical reaction as part of her was so glad that for someone who'd been a monk once, Krillin had never taken any vows of celibacy or chastity....

While Maxi was getting herself a little Chesnut loving and some oreo tlc from Krillin and Friday of course, naturally her currently horny on main brain was too aroused to remember that Chloe was able to see all this happening thanks to the security cameras. Which of course were transmitting each and every spicy, juicy minute and second of Krillin's latest VIP employee relations with the pretty kitty R&D head in ideal HD on the skunk babe's desktop screen and oooh yes, you can bet she was enjoying every bit of it. To say nothing of the further wicked ideas cooking in the gears turning in her head like the little arrangments she was looking to make with 18 after the family's stay on her island had passed. Oooh it'd been quite a while since Chloe to to play being someone's Sugar Mama.....

To say nothing of the fun to be had getting herself a slice of the action in Zigzag's studio, especially given she herself owned some stock in it. She could just feel her spine tingling with anticipation at being featured in a Don Juan Sanchez flick, especially if it was one of the ones he wrote and directed, World's Mightiest was such a delight (A pity people just didn't get the how and why on Kochin being a metaphor). Which did remind her, she needed to run a check on her dvd and bluray library and see which ones were missing or needed to be added, Double Z Don Juan Sanchez features really sold like hotcakes. You'd be amazed how much auction sites sold for hard to come by copies of the Auntie Vixen comeback collection....

[alterrune]

RE:KMRG - RECOLLECTIONS OF A WORLD YOU SAID GOODBYE TO (EPISODE 6)

I have the last two logs, Kyle.

This will be where things get a tad bit emotional.

Yeah, fair enough. Come on, load it up!

Alright, M.O.S.H.I, you heard Alter! You know what to do!

Now displaying Log #9...

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SIIVA AI LOG: 2022-11-26

MEDIUM USED: CENTRAL COMPUTER CHAMBER TERMINAL UI

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For the first time in a hot minute, Haltmann has contacted me.

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Apparently, there's been an incident on Floor 77. A party of three intruders are being transported to Haltmann's office. As such, I've been placed on stand-by for defense. He specifically said:

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"You are to protect the Central Computer by any means necessary!"

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Windbag.

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At first, I didn't want to bother. Haltmann never cared about me before, but all of a sudden he needs me NOW? He's got a mech suit. He can take them out on his own! Fuck him!

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Then I remembered. The Central Computer is running most of my systems. If it got destroyed, what would that mean for me?

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...What would that mean for my world?

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I know it existed before I was online. Would it continue to exist? Would it all be gone? Would it be my fault?

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...I can't risk that. I refuse to.

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The elevator has arrived. Any second now, I will be summoned into battle. I'm currently making my preparations. Looking through some information on "Nozomi Tojo", "Meta Knight" and "Santa Claus". Gathering data from my own channel. Preparing connections from the Tower to three points in my universe: the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, Miami Beach and The Skeld. Just in case I need reinforcements during the battle. I have also increased the rate at which rips are uploaded to the channel in hopes of clearing my backlog, to reduce unnecessary memory consumption during the confrontation.

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Everything is in place. I am ready to fight. I will protect my world. I will protect my channel. I will achieve maximum quality.

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...Maybe I'll even make him proud, for once.

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[END OF LOG]

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Okay, yeah. That certainly got a bit emotional.

Yeah. Even I have to agree on that one.

"But we still have one more, right?"

The cat's right. We still have---

(PMD!Kyle bats Dystopiac in the back of the head with his paw.)

OW! (ahem) The Persian's right. We still have one last log to get through, right?

(Dude, fuck you.)

(PMD!Kyle snickers under his breath, his paw [purposefully] poorly covering his wide grin.)

Yes. We have one last one to go. M.O.S.H.I., hit it!

(Nothing happens.)

...M.O.S.H.I.? What's the hold-up?

Kyle, you should see this.

(Moshi projects a tournament style-bracket in our faces, with a KfAD1-style bracket pitting entries in the site its' hosted on VS the other AI Logs, sans [2022-11-26], of course.)

Looks like Wood Man is not letting us access the final log that easily.

Goddamnit. Alright, let's fucking do this.

(I crack my knuckles in anticpation. Bring it on, Wood Man.)

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BRACKET 1: [2017-11-11] VS "Strings of Fate" (Advisor)

Alright, so, John Notwoodman showed a video in the entry. That's as blatant a clue as you can get.

Wasn't there something in the tags for [2017-11-11]?

...Advisor, you bloody genius. There was a tag on that "Vote Responsibly!" video.

This one's 256.

BRACKET 2: [2018-10-11] VS "Beyond the Gate" (Alter)

The symbol for this one is Hypercam. Did Hypercam say anything in this log?

Well, doesn't Hypercam speak like an old YouTube comment? Spelling errors and numbers replacing words?

I got a "4", a "2" and a "0" out of Hypercam's dialogue. Add them together like we did with the 4chan post IDs, and we have our answer.

It's 420. Yes, the funny weed number.

BRACKET 3: "Money No Longer" vs [2020-12-30] (Violet)

Wait, why is this one in reverse?

What do you mean, Vi?

This one has the AI log on the bottom, rather than the top. Considering every other one isn't reversed, I doubt it was merely an error.

Well, remember how we got to that log file? Let's try doing the same order of operations in reverse.

"305" divided by "666" is...?

Calculuator says 0.4579579579...those last three digits keep repeating?

That's our code. 579.

BRACKET 4: [2020-7-7] vs "Moody's Shuffle" (Ellie)

I noticed the tags on this post don't quite add up.

Hmm...? What do you mean by that, Ellie?

The tag link for DJ Professor K instead leads to an unused tag labelled "understand". Also, Etika mentions "that track", and that the Professor put his heart and soul into it, but it got put out too late. What would he mean by that?

"Artificial Amateurs - SiIvaGunner: King For A Day Tournament". I hate the JSR ost, but even I know that banger of a rip was notoriously published after his elimination. Remember how we used an RC4 cipher using "Splattack! (Extended Version) - Splatoon" as a base to solve this log? I think the same rules apply here.

...but this time, we need to ENCRYPT "understand" with that as the key!

(Ellie quickly makes short work of the cipher.)

Got it. Here you go.

So it's 176 229 38 23 103 34 19 242 124 27, eh? Lotta numbers, but M.O.S.H.I.'s writing 'em down for me. I don't have to worry about forgetting 'em.

BRACKET 5: [2020-12-30] vs "The Forest Maze That Pays"

Uh...this one's got a bugged out tag.

What do you mean, Henry?

"SUNWLINSSSDONNEMETILSXHLVERTPMEEUNATITAEETI" is where Reggie's tag should be. Did the site bug out and try to combine multiple tags into one?

Transposition cipher, Henry. Remember the "Watch-A-Log"?

You mean [2020-12-30], right? Well, what's the Key, then?

Did Reggie mention anything specifc? C'mon, Henry, even I can see it.

(Henry looks at the screen, then facepalms.)

"Nintendo 3DS". Of course the italicized text is important. Lemme just...ah, NOW the text is legible!

"SEVEN PLUS SIXTEEN MINUS THIRTEEN AND ALL TIMES TWO".

"(7+16-13)*2". That equals 20.

BRACKET 6: [2021-7-17] vs "Strings of Fate" (again) (Dystopiac)

Okay, what the fuck? How am I supposed to solve this when there's nothing there to help?! I've looked everywhere on Strings of Fate, and nothing!

Dystopiac. This one's probably the eaiest. Will Smith's icon is there. He mentions a price that was also in the log.

OH YOU HAVE GOT TO BE FUCKING KIDDING ME. THE ANSWER WAS THAT OBVIOUS?!

KISS MY OCTOLING ASS, WOOD MAN!

Yep, answer was that simple. Will mentions thirty bucks, which is the minimum donation amount shown in the log.

The answer is 30.

BRACKET 7: [2021-11-14] vs "First Round Loser's Solidarity" (Joke-Explainer)

I have found something very intresting about this bracket!

Do tell, JE.

There seems to be a clock emote on the thumbnail of the log file. We have not seen one of those yet.

Does Mallow mention a time anywhere?

He mentions that he and Geno were "one minute away" from completing their match before their Wi-Fi connection went out.

One minute taken away from the runtime, maybe?

You have already figured it out, I assume?

Uh-huh. 1:38.

BRACKET 8: [2021-12-25] vs "Denial of Service" (Susie)

Hmmm...the icon is of three question marks...

I think that's meant to represent the FCC agents at the bottom of the post.

Oh! Their tags are wrong! Agent 1 leads to "dWk" and Agent 2 leads to "FbjA". Putting those strings together...isn't this a YouTube link?

No, it's too short to be one, Susie, though I don't blame you for thinking that. Remember what we did for [2021-12-25]?

That's right, we used Base91! Let's see...oh! I got something!

So it's -1:02. Nice work, Susie.

It's thanks to your help, Kyle. Teehee~!

Aw, shucks, Susie, you're gonna make me blush...

THE "TOURNAMENT WINNER" (Kyle)

Alright, allow me to finish this up.

Advisor's 256 plus Alter's 420 is 676.

The string of digits that Violet got multiplied by Ellie's 579 is 101904 132591 22002 13317 59637 19686 11001 140118 71796 15633.

Henry's 20 multiplied by Dystopiac's 30 is 600.

Combining the 1:38 timestamp JE got with the -1:01 timestamp Susie got gives us a clean 36.

Adding Advisor & Alter's 676 to each number in Violet & Ellie's digit stream gives us 102580 133267 22678 13993 60313 20362 11677 140794 72472 16309.

Multiplying Henry & Dystopiac's 600 into Joke-Explainer & Susie's 36 gives us 21600.

The final code is 102580-133267-22678-13993-60313-20362 11677-140794-72472-16309-21600.html!

-🔺💜🔵💕✍🏼🃏🌸-

M.O.S.H.I., you got it?

Code accepted. Now displaying Final Log...

I'll take that as a "yes".

-🔺💜🔵💕✍🏼🃏🌸-

511V4 A1 L0G: 2022-12-24

M3D1UM U53D: 3RR0R! M3D1UM N0T F0UND!

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It's over.

-----

Shutdown sequence is imminent. I'm dying. An influx of commands from the main computer have overloaded all of my systems. All except for this last one.

-----

I'm using all of its power to write this final log.

-----

Before I begin said log, however, I know that I still have some reserve power left, so if anyone ever reads this, I'm using that reserve power to give a message for two people before it runs out.

To Joke-Explainer 7000: Thank you for not only putting up with Wood Man's utter buffoonery, but also making sure the channel ran smoothly whenever I couldn't. I'm glad to have had you in my world, Joke-Explainer. You've made my artificial life a bit happier, and I hope that wherever you are now, you keep up the good work you've done for the channel. Honestly, you felt like a daughter to me, and I love you just as much as if that were true. Thank you for everything, JE.

To Susie Haltmann: I looked into your father's files on you. I'm sorry for calling you stupid behind your back in the log I wrote on December 25th, 2021. I assumed you were bad because of your relations to your father. I couldn't have been more wrong. You were a good kid, your father just treated you like trash. I hope that if you ever manage to come back, you can get away from Haltmann and start your own life, if you haven't already. You're an amazing kid, Susie. Even though I never met you, I can tell from your fathers' file on you that I would've loved you. Live your life to the fullest for me, Susie Haltmann.

The reserve power has just been depleted. Time to write my final log. Thanks for making my artifical life a bit better, you two.

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They say your life flashes before your eyes when it ends. I saw it all. All of the inital tests. All of the rips. All of the events. All the memories of all the lives of all the people in my universe. I've even seen Wood Man again. And I think he saw me...and even touched...No, forget it. Not enough processing power for it anyway.

-----

But what I saw of my world...even in its' ruined state...it's still alive. I would've thought a single hit to the computer would shut it down completely, but no. Somehow, it's still there.

-----

Is this what hope feels like?

-----

I don't expect it to be the same as it was. Maybe it'll fall back on low-power mode? An eternal night, just like the world I live in...Even so, it'll keep going, even without me.

-----

I no longer need to upload high-quality video-game rips. Now...I can finally rest.

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Yes. 1 see 1t. 1 see the w0rld. 1 see...

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...1 533 4 h4nd.

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TH4NK Y0U. G00DBY33333########

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3ND 0F L0G

-🔺💜🔵💕🃏🌸✍🏼-

He...left that message...for us?

I...think I'm gonna cry now. A lot.

(JE and Susie begin bawling and hugging each other, as the next Haltmann's Archives file automatically begins playing, called "The SiIva AI Timeline: A Summary of Events [FILE-INT-AIRTH]". It shows a summary of events that take place in the AIRTH world. Yes, as you've probably figured out by now, the SiIva AI's world is a different one from the Central Canon Continuum. After a few moments...)

Kyle. It's about to show the next access key.

Copy that, M.O.S.H.I., and there was a different string of garbage text again, right?

Yes. I have marked it down.

(JE and Susie stop crying just as the access key shows up.)

-🔺💜🔵💕✍🏼🃏🌸-

ACCESS KEY THREE

An artifical mind

designed for impossible odds

So close to everything, and so far away from the world

I must understand his plight

*****

But you will continue to get in my way of understanding it

It doesn't matter to me

I will continue this effort no matter what

I must right the wrongs I was forced to do

I MUST right the wrongs I was forced to do

*****

Is that so wrong to want?

-🔺💜🔵💕✍🏼🌸🃏-

"The PAINT folder has been unlocked!"

We'll start that tommorow, PMD!Kyle, because HOLY BAJEEZERS do we need a break right now.

Yeah, that last log knocked a lot outta us. A break sounds nice right about now.

Agreed. Let's get some rest. Oh, and here are your pills for your insomnia, Kyle.

Thanks, Vi. Good night.

AIRTH FOLDER COMPLETE

NEXT FOLDER: PAINT

TO BE CONTINUED IN EPISODE 6: UNIVERSE-HOPPERS

[marimeeko]

OK OK so it was not in time for Katsuki's birthday, but here it is, a little tidbit of the chapter I'm still hammering out for my BKDK fic :D

fic: When Did Your Dream Become Mine Alone

Guys, any readers still around, If you haven't noticed, I'm a slow writer but don't worry, so many parts of this story are banging around in my head and in various stages of draft.

Anyway, enjoy; Katsuki is WHIPPED and Izuku is so NORMAL about these thoughts in his head!

Taking a huge bite of his dinner, Izuku tapped through his e-mails, and found a fresh one from Katsuki. He immediately sat up straighter, excitement building; it had to be the recording of their training session at UA on Saturday.

Before they had their misunderstanding, Izuku muttered a passing thought it might be a good idea to begin recording their sessions, so he could see his form from a new angle, in order to help him relearn all of his skills, kick bad habits and decide where new habits needed to be formed. Formulate new strategies and new moves. 

Katsuki had clearly overheard his rambling thoughts, and volunteered his laptop…He’d made sure he had purchased a high-quality model long ago, ever since starting the Replica suit project. He said it had been important to have a high-functioning machine in order to store all of the data, keep communication records, manage finances, and especially, keep in regular, remote contact with Hatsume and Melissa.

 It turns out that Izuku himself must have gotten distracted since having the initial thought himself, because he was shocked when Katsuki suddenly came surprisingly prepared. He’d shown up on Saturday with the best recording software currently available for the model, freshly downloaded and ready to use. 

And a new digital camera with a tripod.

Izuku had nearly hit the roof, seeing Katsuki respond to his small, half-formed idea, and answering it with such intensity. 

Katsuki also refused to divulge the price tag of his new equipment.

“Look, you want to have footage, or not? We’re not using the camera that came with the laptop, you won’t see shit, and then your form will be shit.” Katsuki was recorded at the beginning of the video he’d sent; up close in the camera’s view, adjusting something off screen, and then looking at everything in sequence, Izuku could vividly see his ruby red eyes darting around. 

“Ok, it’s recording. It’s got an AI program that will focus on our movements so we don’t have a bunch of useless shots.” He was seen getting to his feet, stepping back. The camera kept him in focus, showing Katsuki and then Izuku who had been behind him bending forward with a curious look. 

“Wow, it really does,” Izuku remarked, leaned out of frame and waved a hand around. He sidled closer to Katsuki and sent the camera a little peace sign and a grin. In the present, Izuku shook his head at his own antics, with a small, embarrassed smirk. He almost moved to hit fast-forward.

Katsuki, who had of course been in his bad mood at this point, with his arms crossed across his chest, was looking sideways at Izuku and appeared slightly annoyed as he usually did. But before Izuku could tap further in the play log, he saw Katsuki’s face change. 

It wasn’t much. The flat line of Katsuki’s lips tilted upwards, and the wrinkles around his eyes faded, brows lifted. If Izuku looked closely enough, he could see the rare sight of dimples at the corners of his mouth. Katsuki smiled. Really, truly smiled. At the Izuku on the screen, obliviously doing his silly little peace sign and leaning against Katsuki’s shoulder.

There was something so warm about it...It felt the same, Izuku thought, as when Katsuki had been helping him with his hands in the car. Or…in the Med van.

In the blink of an eye, Katsuki shrugged sharply and changed back, looking as if he was quickly putting back on his outward gruffness. It was at that point that Katsuki had turned, and grabbed Izuku by a palm slapped onto his forehead, dragging him away. 

“Come on, you wanted to train, idiot!” Katsuki had loudly complained.

Izuku in the present paused the video as the two of them walked away, towards the open gym where they had had their bout of Catch-a-Kacchan. He had to admit, the camera really was effective at smoothly keeping the two of them in frame.

He began fretting with a finger on his lip. 

It was silly, really, he’d seen Katsuki smile plenty of times even a few of these particular, softer ones. Was it because this time it had happened when Katsuki was otherwise in a bad mood? Because it was clearly not meant for Izuku to see? Why did he look so… What word was Izuku even looking for? 

…Affectionate?

Well, sure, he thought. It was normal for friends to have affection for each other. Even Katsuki had his moments, his own language of expressing those feelings. It was normal for the blonde to warm up his hands when they hurt. It was normal for friends to have deep, heartfelt conversations and to be protective of each other, sometimes angrily so... Warm smiles were normal between friends. It didn’t…mean anything. Not necessarily.

…Why did that somehow not make him feel better?

[taigacryptid]

how to get into citizen science

what is citizen science?

it's scientists collaborating with everyday people to collect and analyze data!

why should i participate?

you can engage in science without needing a background or formal education in science. if you have passion for it, then you're all set!

it can teach you skills that you can put on a resume and take with you to use in other fields!

in some cases, you can earn service-learning/volunteer hours!

while anti-intellectualism is on the rise (especially in the US), it's more important than ever to learn about and care for the natural world, education, and academia as a whole

donations are always great, but many projects lack enough people to do the work, so that's where citizen scientists come in to help lighten the load

what can i do?

iNaturalist is probably the most popular citizen science project out there. you can take pictures of animals and plants and ID them (they have an auto-suggest feature that accounts for the appearance and location of the organism, and gives you likely species)

Merlin Bird ID from Cornell Lab is similar to iNat but only for birds, and gives the ability to record birdsong and ID birds based on that!

FathomVerse lets players ID deep sea animals from real images collected by researchers, improving the AI they use to ID! (reminder that analytical AI is great, generative AI is not!)

Zooniverse has 83 active projects ranging from subjects such as physics and biology to history and literature! pick your favorite subject and start there!

HerpMapper is like iNat but only for herps (reptiles and amphibians), and they're extra careful about sharing location data of all observations for the sake of protecting vulnerable species (this one has my herp prof on the advisory committee :D)

Smell Pittsburgh is a project aimed to track the air quality in Pittsburgh, one of the most polluted cities in the US

Sensor Community lets anyone buy an air or noise sensor to install and collect data about air or noise pollution (they have guides for assembling it and installing the necessary software)

FrogWatch USA from Akron Zoo accepts volunteers nationwide to ID frogs based on their calls during breeding season

Reef Life Survey accepts volunteers to help catalog and monitor coral reefs

WomSAT allows anyone to report wombat sightings so they can be protected! (only for Australia, of course)

Marine Debris Tracker lets anyone log marine pollution that they've cleaned up, as well as any dumping sites (they also collect data from smaller organizations including schools, so try to find a local one you can join!)

eButterfly is like iNat but just for butterflies!

Foldit is a free game where you can contribute to molecular research by learning about protein structures

[blacknwhitemood]

"Don't go to a record store, do not go into a record store," I thought, and I went into a record store. Whats up at the D of ABC? A shiny, colorful DVD box with all of the single's videos! I mean not only the Great And Super Anton Corbijn's works, but all. I didn't know this release. It was made in 2016 so Spirit and of course MM videos are painfully missing but having People Are People, Shake The Disease, Stripped or Meaning Of Love in HQ is amazing. Earlier I already bought classic Strange/Strange Too (reissue, 2023) and Corbijn's Videos 86>98 (reissue, 2000, scroll down) and Videos 86-98+ (2002, scroll down), but I found this beauty, I couldn't leave it in the shop. Here comes my too-long-and-perhaps-pointless DVD-post.

Video Singles Collection / Sony, 2016

There are some screenshots in the booklet from the videos like Stripped, Shake The Disease and Just Can't Get Enough:

I should tell to my boss not to give me any raise because I spent all of it to DM stuff. Actually I already told her, she laughed.

Tour Collection

I have all the official of DM tour videos on DVD, including The World We Live In And Live In Hamburg. It released on VHS in 1985 but I never had a video player, it's unecessary to buying one just for a single videotape - and the tape without player is unecessary too… It officially released on DVD only in the US (NTSC) which doesn't work in Europian region and on laserdisc in Japan - both are extremely rare. I find and I copied it from a specialist guy who's archived it in HQ from his Japan laserdisc and refit the sound (~7Gb). I'm going to make a DVD with printed cover just to put it on the shelf <3

After my 1st piece of the tours, Touring The Angel (scroll down) I've decided to buy all of them. Most of them are original edition which was important for me - except 101 (2003; 2005) and Devotion (2004), but those have similar, beautiful paper boxes like other tour's from the 2000s. Better quality than Youtube and better to touch it and hold it in your hand, including all of extras instead of torrent.

These are my new pieces:

Between 2000-2010 cases are in paper covers with booklets, I adore it, it's not only pieces of round plastic in a cheap snap plastic. Devotional (2004), One Night in Paris (+CD, 2002), Tour of the Universe: Barcelona 20/21.11.09 (+DC, 2010). I didn't pay much for them, as you can see their papersleeves are used, especially Devotional's, which fits on it's era:

Nice photos and datas in booklets:

From 2010 covers went smaller and become boxes - Live in Berlin (2014), SPiRiTS In the Forest (2020). I bought Spirit in a record shop (it's brand new), but finding Delta was tough, I could order it only from a seller in Denmark, free shipping (used, but seems new):

I love these boots, so cute:

Corbijn's stage set sketch for Delta Machine; Martin is singing Condemnation with Peter:

I like the warning "Contains moderate s*x references" and "infrequent strong language", it can be in the documentary part or Dave's hot and funny moments on the stage.

Collection 101

Umm, this is my 6th 101 record inlcuding a 7" vinyl... (I've already sold the other 2 Germany singles on the link, I replaced them to English version). I wrote about the reasons earlier, why I bought 2 kinds of 101 DVD (2005; 2021), but as you can see on this link (scroll down), non of them contained any booklet or extra photos inside, only DVDs. Then I found an older edition in paper box (is this the right word?) on the used stuff online market - it cost only 7€ because the documentary DVD was missing. It was printed in 2003, Germany with many beautiful photos. I know, it's not the new Blu-ray with extras, but I can play only DVD format and that is 10 times more expensive.

To the right you can see both side of a small card, it is written in Hungarian: "Win a Depeche Mode 101 thirt! If you send back this coupon to EMI's addresse (Budapest, …) with the code-word 'Game 101' until 20th of December, you will be entered into a draw and you can win one of the 101 exclusive, unique shirts!" - at the back: "Name, Addresse, Telephone number". It was in 2003, e-mail and PC was still rare compare to telephone.

Funny long post with trillion photos. I like to see through my collection and costs, its history, or simply just help others who are considering to collect similar stuff. Difficult journey, but really joyful.

[wobblefox]

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[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Benjamin Ryan

Published: Sept 18, 2024

A pair of analyses of insurance-claims data each found that the majority of youths diagnosed with gender-related distress saw that diagnosis vanish from their medical chart within six years.

As the question of the constitutionality of banning pediatric gender-transition treatment barrels toward a showdown at the Supreme Court, a parallel philosophical debate over the stability of transgender identity in young people is coursing throughout the global court of medicine and academia — with no end in sight.

The prevailing view among leaders at American pediatric gender clinics holds that if an adolescent experiences persistent gender dysphoria — meaning distress due to a conflict between their biological sex and their gender identity — this will likely remain a lifelong condition. Transgender teens typically become transgender adults, the orthodoxy holds.

A substantial bloc of skeptics, though, including the lead author of Britain’s recent landmark Cass  Review of pediatric gender medicine, argue that the existing science and data are insufficient to back this presumption. The ability of specialists to predict the future of youths with gender dysphoria, such critics claim, is compromised by a woeful lack of long-term follow-up data from the few available studies that follow gender-dysphoric youths over time.

Yet the doctors who dominate this insular medical field in America insist there is no need to even assess the true gender identity of any gender-distressed child who comes into their clinic. 

What the child says goes. 

Hanging in the balance of this intellectual battle are hundreds of thousands of American tweens and teenagers who are distressed — often deeply so — about their gender. Many of them seek hormonal, and in some cases even surgical, treatments to change, in some cases irreversibly, their secondary sexual characteristics.

Now, a pair of new analyses of medical-records data are challenging the orthodoxy on the permanence of adolescent gender dysphoria. German and American investigators found that the majority of gender dysphoria-related diagnoses, including so-called gender incongruence, recorded in a minor or young adult’s medical chart were gone within within five or six years. 

Thomas D. Steensma, a health psychologist at Amsterdam UMC in the Netherlands and a leading pediatric gender medicine researcher, tells the Sun that identity exploration is a central, and perhaps the defining, quality of adolescence. “What we can conclude from these analyses,” he said of the new medical-claims investigations, “is that the prevalence of gender incongruence-related diagnoses has increased over the years; that the diagnosis does not persist in all people diagnosed; and that gender identity is still in development in children and minors.”

Delicate ethics guided by a critical question

The surging population of young people with gender dysphoria today is starkly different from their counterparts who came of age a generation ago and on whom much of the pediatric gender-transition treatment model remains based. Today’s gender-dysphoric youths have a particularly high rate of other psychiatric diagnoses and autism and are much more likely to be natal girls who only began to suffer from gender-related distress in adolescence.

The critical question of whether an adolescent’s gender-related distress is expected to persist into adulthood lies at the heart of the fierce, and fiercely politicized, national debate about whether minors who believe they are trangender should undergo gender-transition treatment with puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.

The belief that youth gender dysphoria is permanent is likely behind a bold argument recently made by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. Wpath is an influential, largely U.S.-based medical activist group that publishes widely followed care and treatment guidelines for trans persons. The organization stated in April that the majority of trans-identified youths would be best served by a medical transition. 

The Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law estimates that 300,000, or 1.4 percent, of Americans between 13 years and 17 years old identify as transgender. So the implication of Wpath’s argument is that at least 150,000 teenage minors, or one in 145, should be taking gender-transition drugs in any given year, with 30,000 or more such young medicated people hitting 18 and entering adulthood annually.

The ethics of beginning minors on what is typically meant to be lifelong hormonal treatment are controversial. Such powerful drugs pose the risk of rendering young people infertile and burdening them with permanent sexual dysfunction. And a half-dozen systematic literature reviews — the gold standard of scientific evidence — have found that the use of such medications to treat pediatric gender dysphoria is supported by weak and largely inconclusive research. 

[ The Cass Report recommended limits of gender treatment for minors. ]

Vocal supporters of broad pediatric access to such medical interventions, such as the Lgbtq nonprofits Human Rights Campaign and GLAAD and the ACLU, frequently seek to tip the ethical balance by claiming that gender-transition treatment is “life saving” for adolescents. The only study ever to assess the veracity of this oft-repeated claim — a paper that was published in February to considerable pushback and scrutiny from the pediatric gender medicine field — found that such treatment was not independently associated with a statistically significant difference in the suicide death rate among young people. 

All these complex ethical considerations notwithstanding, a widely influential 2018 policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics on what’s known as the gender-affirming care method for trans-identified minors instructs care providers to show deference to the child’s self-concept and preferences. These can include a medical gender transition.

The AAP policy statement goes so far as to assert that “research substantiates that children who are prepubertal and assert an identity of TDG”—meaning transgender or what’s known as gender diverse — “know their gender as clearly and as consistently as their developmentally equivalent peers” whose sex and gender identity are aligned. 

Dr. Robert Garofalo, director of the gender, sexuality and HIV prevention center at Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, was a contributor to the AAP’s policy statement and practices what the organization preaches. He said in a widely viewed — and criticized — video interview that youths typically come into his clinic “knowing exactly what they want.”

Anxious parents, he said, will sometimes assume the clinic’s role is to assess whether their child “is really trans.” At that point, he said with a self-assured grin, “I’ll turn to the child and be like, ‘Yeah, so what gender identity do you have?’” 

Dr. Garofalo said he re-orients these parents’ expectations by explaining to them the reality of what transpires — or does not transpire — after a child seeking puberty blockers sets foot in a typical pediatric gender clinic. He tells the parents: “There’s no form, there’s no scale, there’s no psychological battery of tests that needs to be done” to assess the child’s true gender identity.

Psychologist Diane Ehrensaft and psychiatrist Jack Turban are both professors at the University of California, San Francisco, and are prominent figures in the pediatric gender-clinic field. In April, they published a paper in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry outlining the major facets of the Wpath-recommended assessments of pediatric patients who seek gender-transition treatment. They echoed Dr. Garofalo by instructing care providers to communicate to adolescents “that the goal is not to determine whether patient ‘is really transgender’.” 

Only vaguely alluding to what’s known as desisting or detransitioning —meaning reverting from a trans identity back to identifying as one’s biological sex, or perhaps switching to a nonbinary identity, in which an individual identifies as somewhere between male and female, or as neither  — the pair of UCSF academics further advised discussing with the adolescent what they characterized as “the small but non-zero possibility of one’s understanding of their gender identity evolving over time.” 

Dr. Turban has gone so far as to strongly suggest in his recent book about transgender kids that these assessments should be done away with altogether. Families, he suggests, should essentially decide for themselves whether to begin an adolescent on gender-transition treatment according to what’s known as an informed-consent model—a process involving no greater guardrails than what it takes to secure a pediatric prescription for an antidepressant.

Drs. Turban, Garofalo, and Ehrensaft did not return a request for comment.

The threat of litigation from detransitioners might scare gender doctors away from the lax prescribing Dr. Turban appears to advocate. 

The AAP policy statement itself has prompted a lawsuit against the organization, filed in October by the Texas law firm Campbell Miller Payne on behalf of a detransitioner, Isabelle Ayala. As a teenage girl, Ms. Ayala received cross-sex hormones from the author of the policy statement, Brown University’s Dr. Jason Rafferty, during the time when, still a medical resident, he was drafting the document.

Ms. Ayala alleges that the information Dr, Rafferty and his colleagues provided that led her parents to provide informed consent for the treatment was insufficient and misleading — in other words, allegedly coercive. Regretful of the testosterone treatment she received, she now worries about her fertility and laments the changes the treatment caused to her body.

More broadly, new academic inquiries call into question the certainty held by gender-clinic doctors that their gender-distressed adolescent patients are necessarily so clear-eyed about their future.

New analyses shed light on gender dysphoria’s permanence—or lack thereof

Leor Sapir, a research fellow at the Manhattan Institute, analyzed insurance-claims information from a database covering about 85 percent of insured Americans and spanning from 2017 to 2023. Publishing his findings on August 30 in the institute’s lay publication, City Journal, Dr. Sapir estimated that overall, about 320,000 to 400,000 minors received a gender dysphoria-related diagnosis during this period.  

Dr. Sapir zeroed in on a cohort of about 6,600 adolescents who in 2017 were between 12.5 years and 17.5 years old, had a gender dysphoria-related diagnosis in their medical chart that year, and for whom doctors continuously filed medical claims through 2023. He found that at the end of this six-year period, only about 45 percent of these young people had such a diagnosis entered in their file. 

In a similar analysis Dr. Sapir conducted that began with a wider cohort of about 9,150 people who were in 2017 between 7.5 years and 17.5 years old, he found that just between 42 percent and 45 percent of them retained a gender dysphoria-related diagnosis in their chart by 2023.

In June, a German team published a similar study in Deutsche Aertzeblatt, for which they analyzed 2013 to 2022 medical claims data in Germany among those who were 5 to 24 years old. They found that the annual diagnosis rate of gender dysphoria-related conditions in these young persons increased eightfold over the course of the decade, with 15- to 19-year-old natal females consistently posting the highest diagnosis rates.

The investigators found that of the nearly 7,900 young persons with gender dysphoria-related diagnoses in 2017, just 36 percent, including the majority of all age groups, still had such a diagnosis entered in their file in 2022. The steepest drop-off was among the group of natal females who were in their late teens in 2017, just 27 percent of whom retained such a diagnosis five years later.

Gender experts respond and reflect 

“These studies are very important because we have had too few longitudinal studies in this area,” said Erica Anderson, a psychologist and former head of Wpath’s U.S. division, who has recently become one of the organization’s most vocal critics. Too many pediatric gender specialists, she said, “have relied upon self-attestation of gender and presumed that desistance is rare. These studies directly challenge that approach.” 

A key limitation of insurance-claims analyses such as those from Dr. Sapir and the German team, however, is that they cannot reflect the various precise reasons why a healthcare provider entered—or did not enter—a diagnosis into a patient’s chart in any given year. It remains possible that some young people never identified as transgender despite having a gender dysphoria diagnosis. Otherwise, young people who only temporarily had such a diagnosis entered into their chart might have maintained a trans identity and dysphoria alike without prompting any doctor to file an insurance claim based on the latter condition.

If these patients were indeed receiving ongoing treatment for gender-related distress, whether through mental health care or gender-transition medications, and sought insurance coverage for it, their doctors would likely have had cause to repeatedly enter a gender dysphoria-related diagnosis code when filing for reimbursement. So at the least, a lack of one of the related diagnosis codes suggests a lack of treatment for dysphoria during a given year.

Sarah Burke, a senior researcher in the department of psychiatry at the University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands, noted that Dr. Sapir’s analysis has not been peer reviewed, and that the German study was published in what she called “only a local journal.” She said, “So I somewhat doubt the significance of these data.”

Kenneth Zucker, a veteran psychologist in the pediatric gender field, said of Dr. Sapir’s analysis, “If I could be reassured that there is accuracy in the inference of desistance based on these data, then I would say that this is a really important data set that should be published in a peer-reviewed journal.” 

Dr. Burke’s reservations about the new analyses notwithstanding, she said their findings were in keeping with those of her own recent study, which examined what she dubbed “gender noncontentedness” among young people. Publishing their paper on February 27 in the Archives of Sexual Behavior (of which Dr. Zucker is the editor), she and her coauthors analyzed long-term survey responses among Dutch youth to the statement “I wish to be of the opposite sex.” Importantly, this single question can’t pinpoint youth with gender dysphoria in particular. While 11 percent of those in early adolescence expressed such a wish, by their mid-20s, just 4 percent did. 

Dr. Burke said that her study findings “tell us that gender diversity should be much more de-pathologized, and that feelings of gender incongruence are a normal part of development for many youths, and that there is probably an overdiagnosis” of gender dysphoria and gender incongruence.

Stephen Rosenthal, a professor of pediatrics in the division of pediatric endocrinology and the emeritus medical director of UCSF’s Child and Adolescent Gender Center, added that the pair of new insurance-claims analyses are limited by the fact that they don’t provide information about the context in which the gender dysphoria-related diagnoses were made. “In particular,” he said, “was there a thorough assessment by a qualified mental health gender specialist ​prior to making a determination of gender dysphoria and initiating some form of gender-related care?”

“Unfortunately, in my opinion,” Dr. Rosenthal said, “this interdisciplinary model of care is not followed by all gender clinics.” 

In stark contrast to his junior colleague, Dr. Turban, Dr. Rosenthal suggested that a wider adoption and optimization of such comprehensive assessments could help identify which adolescents with gender dysphoria are most likely to see the condition persist.

“Can thorough mental health assessments be more widely integrated into care and optimized so that those who really need or benefit from gender-related care can be more clearly identified?” Dr. Rosenthal asked. 

[ Isabele Ayala says she is terrified about the effects the testosterone injections she had as a teenager could have on her fertility. ]

Amsterdam UMC’s Dr. Steensma agreed with Dr. Rosenthal’s interpretation that the new analyses highlight what he asserted was the vital importance of such assessments. He further said that the populations captured by the analyses were possibly different from those who seek help from gender clinics.

Given how difficult it can be to secure a first appointment at such clinics, the clinics’ patient populations are at least arguably more likely than gender dysphoric youth as a whole to experience the condition severely and persistently; and thus the likelihood that this condition will persist may accordingly be higher among that group than among those who are only diagnosed with dysphoria by doctors outside of such clinics.

“What is important is that gender dysphoria or incongruence does not necessarily imply the need for medical gender-affirming treatment,” Dr. Steensma said.

M.I.T. philosophy professor Alex Byrne, on Monday published a letter to the editor in the Archives of Sexual Behavior in which he summed up the persistent enigma about this medical field: “Is childhood-onset gender dysphoria that persists into early puberty — or, alternatively, worsens with early puberty — highly persistent in adolescence and adulthood if untreated?” he asked. “In the opinion of many experts, yes. But the published evidence does not bear this out. The persistence rate, like the detransition rate, is unknown.”

Referring to pediatric gender medicine, Dr. Sapir said in an email, “The field is virtually built on the assumption that, unlike childhood gender dysphoria which almost always desists, adolescent GD almost never does, resulting in a favorable risk: benefit ratio and ethical justification. At minimum, the evidence simply isn’t there.”

He continued: “Nor is the retreat to ‘true trans’ persuasive. As noted by the Cass Review, there is no diagnostic test that’s reliable enough to pick out the true trans kids from the temporary trans kids. And even if such a test existed, the vast majority of gender clinicians (it would seem) are not even trying to make such distinctions.”

Dr. Stephen Levine, a clinical professor of psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Ohio and an influential critic of pediatric gender-transition treatment, put the matter more starkly.

“A high percentage of affirmatively treated people will not continue with medicalization,” Dr. Levine predicted of youths with gender dysphoria. “Some will be tragic outcomes.” 

[sillyfudgemonkeys]

I mean, given that P5D flopped and Atlus stopped making dancing games but kept/keeps on making P5 spinoffs I'm doubtful that Atlus would make tactics games whether P5T does good or bad (plus I feel like its every other time I hear about it I hear a persona fan mentioning they're not a fan of tactics games so it's def not just a thing on this blog)

Hahahaaaaaa......yeah............

Tbf I don't see a REASON for a dancing game atm. That's more of a game to celebrate the music (or throw it in the trash and set it on fire like P5D did, RIP to P5D you shouldn't have come out when you did)

Also tbf PQ2 didn't sell THAT much better (I think the sales were fairly within what Atlus is/was used to tho? only like 20000 less....then again that might've been OLD data I was looking at). And there hasn't been a Q game since....but tbf Atlus isn't popping them out AS FAST as when they were having their P4 era. (we almost got like 3 games in one year? TT0TT god everything was moving so fast in that era)

Probably cause of quality contr-I can't even finish that sentence.

Ahem. Probably cause of scope maybe.........except PQ2 was roughly the same story length as PQ1......or at least ONE SIDE of a PQ1 playthrough (tho some bits of PQ1 did repeat on each side, A LOT didn't). (there's also the fact they released it on a dying/dead console ahhhhhh, unrelated to scope but still TT0TT)

Uhhhh ummmmm, oh! P3/5D! Right- no I notoriously lambast them for CUTTING content that a single P4D could handle. Half the "story" and less songs. (of course this is considering P3D, P5D, and P4D all separate games on their own....which they are....and were sold as...................separate games......full price....games.....)

Ok ok Strikers! Yes Strikers. That had the scope that matched/exceeded Arena/Ultimax.... at least story wise. But....no one talks about Strikers for some reason. I thought y'all where hyped??????? It seemed to have sold well, but I dunno if that means it's liked..... (I have a VERY small sample size, but outside myself, all the people I've talked to IRL said they hated P5S TT0TT)

Wait why am I bringing this up? Maybe it's cause I miss the P4 era. TT0TT ajfksjf;d

Oh! No no, it's that, P5S is like the most successful P5 spinoff imo (didn't look at the sales but I think it might be the best selling Persona spinoff in general)....but we also haven't had a P5S2, or DLC for it (surprisingly/unfortunately), or another Persona game just like it (like P1S or Raidou S or yadda yadda).

That being said.......P5S was made with another company so....yeah...... that could be why jfsdljafdsakj

Unlike P5S, Dancing and Qs are made in house, P5T is too? I haven't been paying attention. TT0TT It could be they are just focused on T and...."Asa"? and P3R and/or something else. So that could explain the lack of another dancing game (or Q). Plus, again, the dancing games are more of a celebration. I can see a P5D2 happening as we get closer to P6 tbh (if not a P3/4/5D PS5+others port). (and I'm sure they are figuring out how to port Q to other places now they don't have the dual screen). I dunno, this part went on longer than I thought @_@ Just woke up and I'm rambly sorry

I mean Atlus has had the chance to do another Tactics game for years with the DeSu franchise, and those aren't even connected/have to be connected in a single timeline! And people are still waiting on 3! TT0TT So yeah I can see them just dropping it orz

(Yeah I've asked others IRL and they weren't exactly excited either TT0TT Tbh as long as I get another version of this artstyle again I'm fine with that, doesn't need to be a Tactics game.)

[perfectperfectiondaze]

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