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i would love 2 ask oc questions but i dont know anything about the ocs in question!! so who are wylla and nix

they're my (mbd-inspired) rogue comfortunit ocs.

they both have tags on this blog but i need to make them more uniform...

wylla tag

nix tag

lol admittedly this ask has also motivated me to finally publish the first chapter of confessions of a sexbot, the murderbot diaries-derivative fic specifically about them (you can now read it here) from wylla's first-person pov. i hope it will maybe help in characterizing them, but i can also try to summarize:

nix (they/them) is a rogue comfortunit who was liberated from a moonbase mining installation by an augmented human engineer named vince. nix then broke another comfortunit (wylla) free from xer governor module, knowing they would need help to escape the system's jurisdiction during a miner's revolt, which was aided by vince and instigated by a group of humans. nix is very introverted, practical/pragmatic, prefers always to do things 'the safe way', is very hyper-aware of the need to blend in despite looking very ordinary and organic. they prefer wearing black and grey clothes that fully cover their legs, arms, chest, and neck, they have their hair trimmed short, and, at a certain point during a violent escape, they're damaged/injured in the left leg and hip, afterward requiring help from a pair of mobility and stability aids (i'm still working on the designs for them, but the hip and leg brace is a bit like this, and they use arm crutches in conjunction with station-provided transport wheelchairs to get around with wylla helping them).

wylla (xe/xem, xe/xir, xe/xer, or any similar x-pronouns) is also a rogue comfortunit, of course liberated of xer governor module by nix during the events of an active revolt, before stowing away on a shuttle and escaping the mining installation. xe define xemself as a sexbot, viewing xer own liberation as "cool now i can do sex work that i choose to do" (in contrast to nix, who is incredibly selective about touch preferences, their body, and how they use it for their own gain now that they're no longer controlled by a govmod). wylla can be characterized as opportunistically extroverted, usually adept at reading people (skills learned prior to liberation, from comfortunit learning modules). wylla is expressive, desires fun in all forms, and is prone to indulging xer impulsive behaviors. xe hate having to hide xer visibly-obvious comfortunit physical attributes, such as glowing body joints (yes, this comfortunit has backlight lol), xer obviously artificial (fiber optic!) long hair, xer adjustable eye displays, etc... to be funny and maybe a little reductive, wylla is like a cross between the wii fit trainer and barbie, if barbie were really into maoist philosophy.

speaking of which, both of them are literally carrying what is essentially centuries' worth of copies of leftist texts including manifestos, essays, basics about labor and human history, etc. all thanks to vince, who enabled nix to download all of it, store it within themself via memory load (later copied into media clips for redundancy), and on their mission to find legal help outside the corporation rim for the striking lunar mining installation workers to bring back, both of them end up sharing these ideas with a lot of other 'units/androids, humans, etc.

they have this dynamic

i first talked here about wylla in this post, which sort of sums up how/why i came up with the way xe are the way xe are lol

i hope this helps 👉🏻👈🏻

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Yuna: [redacted].

Murderbot: No. No. Absolutely fucking not. No. I'm not getting paid enough for this shit.

Yuna: But you aren't getting paid at all. You volunteered to travel with us. We don't even have any money to pay you with.

Murderbot: Exactly. So the answer is no.

Yuna: You can't just decide that for me.

Murderbot: Yes I can.

Yuna: But what about Sin?

Murderbot: I will fucking kill Sin with my bare hands if I have to. The answer is no.

(And yes Tidus is also there, having a well-deserved mental breakdown in the background)

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hey, idk if anyone has asked you this before, but would you be willing (and it's okay if not!) to do a tutorial on your text effects for something like this//post/620144801967472640/what-tony-you-lost-another-superbot - because they are just so cool and I'm just really curious 👀 thank you!

hello, bub! i’m not sure if you meant all the text effects in that gifset or just one specific, so i chose to try to explain what i did in the two most complicated ones haha

again, i’m not really sure which effects you’re interested in and i’m not the best person when it comes to tutorials, so i apologize in advance if this turns out messy/doesn’t help much 😔

for this one, the text effect is on the “lose control” line. 

i start by making 3 layers of the text, in 3 different colors (green, black and white) and position them in a way that it looks like a drop shadow of sorts. then i merge all three layers in one by pressing ctrl + E

when i merged them, they became an “image” layer, no longer a text layer. if you’re only making one text layer (you have no interest in making it a 3-color-text) then you have to “rasterize type” to do the next step!

i make a bunch of copies of the layer, like 6 or 7 copies.

ok, here’s where the actual work starts: 

on the first frame of the gif i want the text to appear,  i make #1 visible & change the opacity to 30%. 

on the next frame, i disable #1, turn on #2 & i leave opacity at 100%. 

next frame, disable #2, make #3 visible and go to edit > transform > warp. you’ll see a bunch of points around your text. choose one (or two) of those and pull in one direction. 

next frame, i disable #3 and make #1 visible again, because the lower opacity helps give that “twitching” effect. 

on the next few frames, i warp some other 3 or 4 copies of the text, always in different directions, and alternate between them & between different opacities.

HERE’S THE ORIGINAL TUTORIAL I USED.

this one is a bit trickier. for the murderbot effect:

you have to download this font

similar to the other gif, i created 2 text layers, with 2 different colors and merged them, so the shadow is green.

then, you gotta go to the last frame and position where you want the text to end up at. 

however, the original font has short hanging lines, and i wanted the letters to hand all the way to the middle of the gif. with that in mind, you have to draw the lines all the way to the top (you can use the pencil tool or you can zoom in, select the string the font already gave you and make copies of it how many times necessary until you reach the top).

(i did the “layer via copy” way, because, in this case, every string had a different green shadow).

once all the lines are done it looks like this:

now, you have to make every letter become a separate layer. you do that by selecting the letter + its string and clicking “layer via cut”. 

okay, then it gets a bit complicated. maybe there’s an easier way to make this, but, to me, it’s less confusing to make the next steps in a separate file. so what i do is: create a new file (same dimensions as your original gif) and move the letters to that file. it should be positioned in the same place as in the original gif (also give this file a black background, to make it easier for you to see the letters).

you’ll have one frame, like this one:

duplicate it. you’ll need that second frame to know where you want your text to end up at. in the first original frame, select all the letter layers and position them way up, out of the frame. then select only the first letter of your word and pull it down a bit, so the bottom of it shows in the first frame:

duplicate this first frame, keep the first letter select and pull it down a bit more.

(at this point you have 3 frames: the first one, with just the bottom of the first letter, the second one, with the first letter a bit more down and the third frame, with all the text where it’ll end up)

duplicate the second frame you just made and select both the first and the second letter and pull them down.

keep duplicating the frames and pulling the letters down bit by bit (always selecting all letter layers you want to move and pulling them together). in my case, every time one letter showed up in its entirety (usually 2-3 frames to each letter to “appear”. depends on how much you pull every time), i started pulling the next one down.

use the last frame as reference to know when each letter reached the place it’s supposed to be. once it does, don’t select that letter anymore when you’re moving the next ones.

it’s a bit confusing, but try to estimate how many frames you’re “allowed” to use (like, how many frames you want to use for this falling effect in your original gif), so that you can have a better idea of how “fast” you gotta move the letters.

once all the letters have fallen (lol), go to the first frame and disable the black background.

select all frames (in my case, i ended up with 31 frames) and select “copy frames”

go to your original gif and select 31 frames where you want the letter to fall (or x frames, how many frames you ended up with) and paste frames OVER SELECTION.

now, this is just me, but, to make sure people have time to read what the actual word says, when i was estimating how many frames i was allowed to use, i left a few spare frames by the end in my original gif. if you also choose to do that, select the last layer you pasted (layer #31, in my case), that has all your letters in their right places) and make it visible in those last few spare frames you reserved.

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I am the host, the most active one here!!

I use he/it pronouns, and i am aroace and an agender transmasc whatever you wanna call it, im also objectum! mainly towards electronic things and sometimes buildings . i like MRIs and x-rays a lot

aside from Ghost I also go by Valency, Kel, Heresy, Morph, Metamorphosis, Simon (hungarian phonetics) and Fordmaldehyde !! you may also bestow any other name upon me

i also draw a lot hehe (art blog can be found towards the bottom or you could just check the description for the url)

i say things like "purrsonyal(ly)" and "purrhaps" and "head in paws" instead of personal(ly), perhaps and head in hands . in my defense, it was a joke at first

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INTERESTS WOOHOO in no particular order !!

special interests.: ULTRAKILL, Houseki No Kuni, Will Wood and The Tapeworms (4+ years and counting of listenership), Madness Combat

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also there are many other things im a casual enjoyer of or used to like a lot but aren't very into it right now! they're still so so dear to me though

music: Nine Inch Nails, Blue Stahli, Creature Feature, Genitorturers, Carson Coma, Bear Ghost, Ghost and Pals, L.A. Suzi, Káltes Ekwa, Priest, Heaven Pierce Her, HEALTH, World's End Girlfriend, femtanyl, Night Club, Patient Zero, That Handsome Devil, Rinse & Repeat, System of a Down, Tardigrade Inferno, Amaranthe, 6arelyhuman, Tub Ring, emily jeffri, And One, Tardigrade Inferno, TWRP + alternative/indie music in general, industrial rock/metal, 2000s white girl pop, i was raised on metal and lady gaga primarily thus my taste is all over the place

Ghost is a huge chemistry and biology fan and almost comically tech illiterate

we also accept recommendations for media and feel free to ramble abt your interests!

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mutuals and buddies are all free to ask for my discord!! to chat or just to throw an image or a thought my way. but you can also do that here, we don't bite :] (and i will likely think youre very cool too, im just terribly ridden with anxiety and i suck at responding sometimes but its nothing personal)

IMPORTANT NOTE WITH DISCORDS NEW UPDATE IF YOU SEE *ANYONE* WITH THE USERNAME "ghostisredacted" ON DISCORD THAT IS NOT ME. i kept my old username with the numbers

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we use the block button liberally around here . ive blocked thousands of coquette blogs for clogging up the sayerpod search results and i will do it again

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-were pro-self diagnosis with proper research (not everyone has access to proper resources, and from personal experience i can say that self diagnosis actually got me into therapy)

-we arent "anti shippers", were normal human beings who DO NOT enjoy incestous, pedophilic, ships. (image included for further reference)

[note. i am a big fan of nuanced ships that have multiple layers to them, e.g.: sayerhale, but aforementioned things make me uncomfortable]

-we dont like to get involved in most kinds of discourse (includes queer, flag, fandom, system etc), just be respectful and respect others' boundaries . and dont be an ass.

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ghost once said = ghosts talking tag!

ghosts art = ghosts art tag // WE HAVE AN ART ACCOUNT NOW we use that tag now for the self-rbs on this blog

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Panels Far, Far Away: Two Weeks in Star Wars Comics 4/10/19  & 4/17/19

I’m back from the Windy City and have only begun to start the acclimation to real life. Good thing I have two weeks’ worth of Star Wars comics to catch up on!

Star Wars Adventures #20 written by Cavan Scott and George Mann and art by Derek Charm and Valentina Pinto

With the mountain of Star Wars that has happened over the last two weeks, it can be easy to overlook a relatively unassuming and playful little comic like Star Wars Adventures. Telling two prequel based stories, Cavan Scott and George Mann continue IDW’s gleefully light hearted take on a universe that is too often dire and epic in scope.

Anytime Derek Charm is brought onto this title is sure to be a delight, and while his work here may not be as standout as on Destroyer Down or Tales from Vader’s Castle, the stylized pencils and creative layouts still remain. Charm is a gifted visual storyteller and his particular visual flair meshes well with Cavan Scott’s particularly goofy team-up between Anakin Skywalker and Yoda. The result is often times smile worthy and frequently charming (no pun intended), but it also doesn’t leave much of a lasting impression. It makes for a great and distracting read but will unlikely be a standout when the series is remembered.

George Mann’s secondary story following Barriss Offee’s padawan training proves less successful. While the general conceit of seeing Barriss attempt to navigate her way through an Indiana Jones style tomb to uncover an ancient text is fun enough, it struggles in its execution. It is often hard to track the action in Valentina Pinto’s art with certain set pieces being resolved seemingly off panel and Barriss often feeling like a static figure floating or sliding through a complex landscape. It’s an unfortunate setback given how strong Pinto’s art was on her Star Wars Resistance issues and it holds back what would have been a fun “Tale from Wild Space.” Score: B-

Star Wars Age of Rebellion -Special #1 written by Simon Spurrier, Marc Guggenheim and Jon Adams and art by Caspar Wijngaard, Andrea Broccardo, and Jon Adams

The benefit to these Age of… special one shots is that they allow Marvel’s team of talented writers and creators to spread their talent across a wide variety of characters and subject matters. Age of Rebellion offers three stories focusing on IG-88, Yoda, and fan favorite X-Wing pilots Biggs and Porkins. Unfortunately, the shotgun approach to storytelling also leads to a wide spread of success leading to comics that are: stellar, forgettable, and oddly confounding.

Of the three, Simon Spurrier and Caspar Wijngaard’s IG-88 centered tale is the standout. Wijngaard’s cartoony artstyle may seem like an odd choice for the story of a self-modifying murderbot, but he is also a gifted visual storyteller and combined with a stellar coloring job by Lee Loughridge, “The Long Game” is a visual treat. Simon Spurrier impressively shrinks the intricate plotting and payoff that he has trademarked over on Doctor Aphra to this smaller page length and in the process he shapes this iconic droid mercenary into an eerie, legendary force of death and destruction. This creative team has done wonders every time they find themselves together and one can only hope that they get the chance to flex their storytelling muscles on a much larger scale very soon.

Marc Guggenheim’s story of an in-exile Yoda proves to be largely forgettable. Whether it is the narration heavy script or the serviceable but comparatively less striking art of Andrea Broccardo, Yoda’s escape from a cave-in before meeting Luke just doesn’t leave much of a mark. The intent may have been to show Yoda’s survival through a period of extended despair in the middle of his long exile, but the shorter length of this project doesn’t allow for this to take full effect.

Finally, we have the truly bizarre Porkins and Biggs installment by Jon Adams. Attempting to describe this comic is a feat in and of itself and on a basic level it is hard not to admire what Adams appears to be doing here. Using two classically killed rebel pilots as its focal point, Adams tells a story of a man who is beginning to be worn down by the cyclical violence and loss of war and places him in a bizarre landscape that looks like it was ripped from a series of 70’s era fantasy cartoons. The feeling is not unlike reading a Kurt Vonnegut or Joseph Heller style post-WWII take on the absurdity of war and using a character that for 40 plus years has existed mostly as a fat-shaming joke as its emotional core is an inspired choice especially given the bleak ending that the comic ends on and the future we all know is coming for its central duo. It’s easily one of the most conceptually and thematically interesting Star Wars comics published in the Marvel era and can’t help but remind one of the myriad of bizarre stories told in Dark Horse’s similarly enigmatic Star Wars Tales series, but in the end its execution is often times too silly, crude, or just strange for it to be a full success. The result is thought provoking, but not always in the manner that Adams likely intended, but sometimes intent is enough, right?

Score: B

Star Wars Age of Rebellion- Princess Leia #1 written by Greg Pak and art by Chris Sprouse, Karl Story, Will Sliney, and Marc Deering

Marvel’s Age of… publishing initiative for 2019 has mostly aimed to tell one shot stories of iconic Star Wars heroes and villains at key moments in their lives. While writer Jody Houser often succeeded in providing revelatory peaks into the psychology of her leads, these one shots commonly struggled in finding interesting things for its characters to do. Two issues in, Greg Pak seems to have found a strong solution to this conundrum. Pak in both his so-far released Princess Leia and Grand Moff Tarkin centered comics continues Houser’s technique of interesting character study but also chooses to ground his narratives in key moments for both character and franchise.

“Princess Scoundrel” sees Leia shortly after last year’s Forces of Destiny short that saw her stealing the armor of Ubese bounty hunter, Boushh. When a distress call from Lando Calrissian sends her on a pit stop on her trip to rescue the still carbon frozen Han Solo, Leia must learn to tap into her inner scoundrel and also reconcile with a man who betrayed her and the man she loves.

Above all, “Princess Scoundrel” is just a fun read. Pak has a strong sense of Leia’s voice but also that of Lando and Chewbacca. Watching Leia get to play bounty hunter is incredibly satisfying and seeing how she gets to mess with a reconciliatory, but still smarmy Lando and a veteran bounty hunter like Bossk is a literal blast. It allows for a bit of a friendship to build between Leia and the former mayor of Cloud City and to also allow the reader to see just how Leia so easily slipped into the role of a mercenary that would be willing to pull a thermal detonator in on a Hutt in his own home.

Even the crowded art team manages to feel cohesive. It may be due to the solid and consistent color work by Tamra Bonvillain, but any switchovers between artist are hard to pinpoint, which is commendable given the number of hands in the pot.

The heroes of the Rebellion are off to a great start here and I’m very hopeful to see where Pak and this art team take us next.

Score: B+

Star Wars Age of Rebellion- Grand Moff Tarkin #1 written by Greg Pak and art by Marc Laming

Few characters have benefited from the new canon quite like Grand Moff Tarkin. Despite being a central villain to the original 1977 film, Peter Cushing’s imposing member of the Imperial military machine never made much of an impression in the old Expanded Universe/Legends continuity. Beginning with The Clone Wars and into James Luceno’s novels and even an uncanny digital resurrection in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Tarkin has become a key face of evil in the era of the Empire. Greg Pak and Marc Laming luckily live up to this continued exploration, building on what has come before to create a haunting peak into the workings of a violent and dangerous man.

Taking place before, during, and after the destruction of Alderaan, “Tooth and Claw” is an effectively unnerving character study of both the title character and what are essentially the triggermen for planetary genocide. Tarkin tries his best to crack down on what he sees as emotional hesitancy or weaknesses in the weapons technicians aboard the Death Star and in the process, the scars of his own emotional upbringing boil just beneath the surface. We see violent glimpses into Tarkin’s past and fantasies in ways that help us understand this man, but far from humanize him and the depths of his villainy reach new lows here just before he meets his fiery demise.

Marc Laming’s detailed pencils prove to be an excellent choice as he is able to capture both the emotional nuance of Tarkin’s facial expressions but also the bloody, brutality of the action present. Laming even manages to make a shirtless Grand Moff something to fear.

Score: B+

Star Wars TIE Fighter #1 written by Jody Houser and art by Roge Antonio and Michael Dowling

As part of an ambitious tie-in (again no pun intended) to Del Rey’s upcoming military procedural Alphabet Squadron, Marvel has Jody Houser and artists Roge Antonio and Michael Dowling shepherding the stories of the novel’s antagonists, the infamous Shadow Wing. Functioning as a mix of origin story, dogfighting action, and military drama, Houser has crafted an Imperial war story that looks to be a standout.

On a surface level, TIE Fighter bares more than a passing resemblance to this year’s Han Solo: Imperial Cadet. Not only do characters like Lyttan Dree carry over between series, but we are treated to a Top Gun style drama of aerial (spacial?) derring-do and inter-pilot relationships. However, while Imperial Cadet struggled in both artistic execution and in the creation of its larger ensemble, TIE Fighter rockets to life fully formed.

It is impressive how quickly the ensemble of Shadow Wing coalesces into cohesive characters. After an opening set piece, Houser takes the time to walk us through each member of this team and how they relate to one another. While Houser makes the smart move to establish each with clearly defined personality traits, the script already begins to hint at personality conflicts at play and even deeper discussions of loyalty to the Empire or the Republic that came before. It may be an issue of mostly ground work, but its done so in a way that is fun to read and promises payoff down the road in a manner that many recent comics have struggled.

Roge Antonio and Michael Dowling excel both in the cockpit and in the mess hall. The team create detailed recreations of fighter and capitol ships without sacrificing the blocking and energy so essential to Star Wars style space battles. However, they prove just as talented as bringing these pilots to life after they remove their helmets with clear and personality filled designs that help to bring to life the detailed characters that Houser has crafted.

There are rough patches though. An end of issue cliffhanger is confusingly staged and an epilogue that directly ties into Alexander Freed’s upcoming novel is momentum breaking and a bit hard to make sense of in how it connects chronologically to our main story.

Regardless, this is a great start and one that hints to an exciting story (hopefully stories!) to come.

Score: B+

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