#yeah this is basically faulty by design

[hexcii]

Hi guys

OG under the cut 👍👍

[vonbabbitt]

ok since people asked about the evil au. also please keep in mind this is a very 2000s/2010score au. its edgy and campy for fun

Isono Miki: Ultimate GFE Streamer

leans HARDCORE into GFE. constantly trying to manipulate money out of lonely people to fund a super bougie and comfortable lifestyle. snakesnake basically

Harada Keizou: Ultimate Butcher

butcher for the sole reason that he truly does enjoy chopping up and segmenting animals

just way over the top campy "haha i love killing and blood soooo much!!" 2010s deviantart creepypasta style

Chiba Airi: Ultimate Scammer

does exclusively ads for scummy faulty products and subscriptions and supplements so she can make mad bank

when we were discussing this in call we just kept saying "buy supplements" over and over and over again so thats the vibe

Kamimura Kazutoshi: Ultimate Cleanup Crew

its the same job but now he does it on the opposite side of the law

works directly in tandem with hasegawa, cleans up evidence and gets rid of bodies etc

personality wise....hes mostly the same LMAO

Hayashi Mai: Ultimate Hitman

doesnt ask questions. gets the job done

just in it for the thrill of the hunt. personality mostly the same but gets a bit feral edgy style when shes getting closer and closer to catching her target

Wada Masanari: Ultimate Con Artist

works with chiba and handles her phone lines

impersonates people's voices to give them the run-around when theyre trying to do something like cancel a subscription ("i wanna speak to the manager" "hi yes this is the manager now.")

buy supplements

Sasaki Hitomi: Ultimate Dictator

hey man gotta do something with those leadership skills

absolutely ruthless war criminal. this one is probably the most evil i think

Ojima Takeshi: Ultimate AI Artist

"nakamigawa i actually really like this design but i honestly think you could buff it up a lot with midjourney"

calls himself a "prompt engineer"

"wow cool drawing! i ran it through chatgpt to improve it a bit"

just a hardcore AI bro. thinks AI art is the absolute effing best and definitely real art

Okazaki Hanano: Ultimate Superhero

okay so shes not evil anymore

we thought it would be funny if in this evil AU shes just good now

still the rival of tsuno manami though

Hama Ran: Ultimate Occult Evangelist

just a straight up cultist

considers himself an "angel hunter", hunts down alleged "angels" and kills them in the name of his cult

tries to rope other people into his cult evangelism style

Tsuno Manami: Ultimate Supervillain

yeah pretty much what it says on the tin here

shes evil now

except shes actually good at it unlike okazaki

wants to take over the world or perhaps just blow it up maybe

Hiroaki Nakamigawa: Ultimate Model Coach

coaches young fashion models extremely harshly and pushes his fashion VERY hard

basically just yells at and insults these teenagers until they get eating disorders or quit forever

BRUTALLY mean

Tamba Ruiko: Ultimate Detective

except she absolutely fucking sucks at it

her detective-ing is an active detriment to everyone and actively sabotages crime scenes

she has no idea she sucks

Hasegawa Ken: Ultimate Information Broker

one smug motherfucker

works directly with kamimura in their little two man mafia

collects peoples information and uses it to blackmail them out of a massive amount of money and resources

Watari Nishino: Ultimate Demolitionist

we thought arson was way too basic

so now she blows stuff up with huge bombs

just for fun i guess. and can fun ever really be evil? certainly no way

Yanagi Shigeki: Ultimate Pick-up Artist

teaches those sigma male courses on how to pick up women

massive chauvinist

treats women like cattle and acts with the full intention of picking up as many of them as possible

[arrimorr]

im getting that the knight is the king's favorite skronkly skrimbo, so how would the knight react if the king got a new follower that he started treating as his favorite? would he get jealous or just be like "ah, an ally i can finally trust!"

Yeah...

BUT ACTUALLY YOU REALLY GOT ME WITH THIS QUESTION.

Short answer: I think the Knight would have sabotaged the poor bastard only to end up miserable about it afterwards.

Long answer: the Knight is the King's secial guy because he is the only follower he got to fully deconstruct and the only condition under which the King can get himself another favorite is if he manages to deconstruct someone again.

And here is the thing - the Knight has a really faulty "design" because of which he is incapable to connect with other followers that inhabit the road and he suffers from that inability to build a personal connection. Deep inside, especially by the point when the plot of the game begins, he wants there to be someone like him. The distance he has with guys like the Tenant and the Radio host is too big to cross because they got to keep a connection to their previous lives, while he did not, and he believes that this is the reason for his inability to bond with them (and, partially, he is right about this). If there was another blank slate like him, things may go differently.

SO, I think initially he would have been actually excited about someone like this appearing. However, I also think he wouldn't have taken it well if he was to lose his "favorite" status. That's basically the focal point of his entire existence, it's hard to lose something like this and not fall into an existential crisis. Especially given that, if given a chance to play doctor Frankenstein again, I think the King would have done a way better job than the one he did with the Knight. So, the Knight would have tried to put his competitor down, pushing the King to get rid of that person by damaging his trust in them.

However, as I said, he would have been miserable after that. Doing this will in no way fix the damage done to his self perception and, more than that, there will be an understanding that he destroyed his own chance to have someone similar to him to keep him company.

[tyquu]

Absolutely love your prosthetic Ezra AU. Arts so wonderful and stunning (Sorry if I spell it wrong, English is not my first language)

If you don't watch Asoka show you can ignore my question, because of spoilers)))

I have a bunch of little questions. Ezra spent almost ten years in other galaxy. What is the quality of his prosthesis when he returned home? How did he deal with breakdowns without the right tools and parts?

Anyway, love your AUs and amazing art style!

Wahhh thank you so much! Glad to hear you like the AU!

So I haven’t actually finished Ahsoka (I know, im sorry 😭) but at this point I feel like I know roughly enough to take a crack at this! So here’s what I came up with;

So, Ezra’s cybernetic, as discussed in the post where I went into detail on it, requires pretty regular maintenance in order to function. Stranded on Peridea and without access to any med care/tech from the chimera, Ezra’s cybernetic would begin to go faulty within months.

At most he’d probably be able to make things just about work for three months post crash before it would have to come off. Grabbing a stick to use as a cane, there would be a few months where he has to really go back to basics, and it is not ideal.

However, Ezra would get crafty! Either with supplies he’d have stolen from the chimera or gathered on his own, and he’d end up with various self made peg legs! They aren’t perfect but with every iteration tend to get a bit better.

After staying with the Noti for a while, he’d finally have access to better materials and craftsmanship, and make a final design for his post crash prosthetic. It includes an adjustable buckle, prosthetic knee mechanism, and polished wood transtibial prostheses below the knee.

Obviously it would still need the occasional part replacement due to wear and tear as time goes on, but I don’t think it would change drastically from this point onwards, not until he gets back to lesser space of course, where I’m sure he’d go get checked out by a whole med team and possibly get his cybernetic replaced

But yeah!! That’s all I’ve got. I’m not a massive Ahsoka believer tbh, and I kinda split off in the middle to dabble a little bit on what an “Ezra and Thrawn in wild space adventures” prosthetic situation would end up being like. Especially with the possibility of introducing the ascendancy. But I decided to halt that train of thought for now so I could address the Ahsoka show specifically 🫡

Thanks again for the ask! Hope this sort of makes sense (and please do let me know if it doesn’t!) :D)

[way-too-many-ideas]

REMY LORE REMY LORE REMY LORE

but first a huge thank you to @love-you-fo-rever for helping me make her and develop her lore!! oh and a btw, any art of remy that I use will more than likely come from kat bc I can’t draw lmao

Okay okay okay lore time

Remy was the prototype created right before the CYN drones were made. Her little PN thing is CYR, but she is the only drone of that type due to a bug in her code. Remy cannot ever be fully 100% charged. You know how cell phones have a maximum capacity for their battery? Yeah, so that maximum drops over time, so even if your phone shows it’s 100% charged, if your maximum capacity is (for example) 90% then really ur phone is 90% charged (this is just my understanding of it, this probably isn’t how it actually works oops). It’s basically the reason why phones seem to die faster and faster over time.

So, Remy’s max isn’t 100% (I haven’t decided what it is lol), and she basically has narcolepsy as a result. I also like the idea that the code, which I just keep calling the REM code, was supposed to allow the drones to charge faster/have more energy bc they would be in the drone equivalent of REM sleep. Idk I haven’t worked out all the logistics yet. Anyways, because of the faulty REM code, she also doesn't always sleep through a whole REM cycle, meaning that sometimes she doesn't/can't even recharge to her max. The code couldn’t really be fixed without fucking up everything else and so she was the only version of this drone to be made since they caught the bug very quickly.

This glitch is also why her eyes are different colors. Her eyes were both originally the light blue/teal color, but after her first REM cycle, the glitch took effect and as a result one of her eyes became a darker blue (aka I wanted her to be quirky and different and I also thought it would be fun for that to be the like, tell (for lack of a better word), that she is glitched) Also, when Remy sleeps, her face doesn’t just say “sleep mode” or whatever, it just says REM, hence how she got her name.

She was one of Tessa’s drones. Idk how the Elliot’s got her, maybe the same way they found Cyn? Idk, I haven’t thought that out yet. Anyways, Tessa loves her and thinks it’s silly how Rem will just suddenly fall asleep and loves to like cuddle with her when she does. Her parents have definitely found them curled up together asleep in the most random places. Of course, Tessa names her Remy after seeing her in sleep mode. Tessa’s parent didn’t want to keep Remy, especially since she’s a literal hazard, but Tessa managed to get her way. They kind of just ignore her. Remy isn’t bothered by this because that means that she tends to go unnoticed and can therefore get away with shit. She has definitely snuck Tessa some treats after bedtime and such. Oh, and she has red hair because Tessa saw her blue eyes/core and was like "red will look so good on you girl" (I get the vibe that Tessa always wanted her drones to look as like stylish as possible)

Remy is chill with all the other drones before everything goes to shit. They all understand that she can't really be of much use due to her being a potential hazard, but they would definitely try to include her when possible. However, she was still able to easily hide away/be forgotten about (for lack of a better term).

Okay so now to the trauma weeeee

Remy was Cyn’s first victim. I imagine that since Remy is typically ignored/hidden in the shadows, nobody really notices she’s gone. She def went missing a little bit before Cyn killed everyone. The dragon wings were the first wing design Cyn tried out (definitely not because I love dragons nope never). But, Cyn didn’t really like them and kept messing around with them therefore damaging the membrane. Remy was tortured, going through constant changes thanks to Cyn. Since she was essentially Cyn’s practice toy, she practically got taken apart and put back together multiple times.

Rem knows she was tortured, but she doesn’t remember much of it. She slowly gets her memories back after the events of the show cause something to trigger and make her remember. She also knows that N doesn't have his memories, and she knows it's because of V somehow, but she doesn't know all the details.

She has the male murder drone legs because she did it to herself. Cyn originally gave her the peg legs, but Remy absolutely hated them. She had a hard time keeping her balance and she would fall a lot more whenever she would randomly fall asleep. So one day, they’re out on a mission or whatever and they stumble upon a dead disassembly drone and Rem’s so fucking done with the peg legs that she literally cuts them off and welds the other legs to her (hence the scars around her legs).

She’s a masochist, in a general sense. She’s also more rebellious since she could get away with a bunch of shit before everything happened. She’s can be very quiet and sneaky, but for the most part she’s really loud and chaotic. She was definitely more quiet with the Elliot's, but then after everything she just said “fuck it” and stopped caring how loud/obnoxious she was being. I feel like she has some sort of Doberman/German Shepherd/Pitbull energy. She's like very protective over everyone, like V levels of overprotective.

Okay, that's all of the Remy lore for now, there's definitely more I could include but I also kind of want to make those separate posts. I'm literally obsessed with her Kat seriously ate. I'm so excited to start writing out like little scenarios and stuff!!!

[sol-consort]

Seeing you active again makes me happy! I love all your human kink works! On your baldurs gate blog as well! I wish more people wrote about it cause I think it could be a really fun (and hot) avenue to explore for drabbles!!!!!!!

I didn't expect anyone to remember my writing or look forward to me posting again, so thank you, I appreciate it a lot.

It is really fun! I wish more people wrote about it too–I guess it can be a little tricky to explain, let alone get into. It's basically monsterfucking with extra steps, except the monster is different species and not actually monsters. Also sometimes the humans is the monster to the other species-ah I'm not sure how to summrise this niche kink.

It's not "human supermacy fuck yeah" either because so many other species out power us in fiction, tieflings are more colourful, elves are more magical, dwarves are more devoted and other races are much more beautiful than humans.

It's the simplicity, for someone to love you as you are. Not wanting someone special or powerful. To love the humanity in you, the primitive animal that still peers its head, our more "predetor" like traits that can be misunderstood. Or our tribal nature to make friends and adopt other species into our own, that humans can get attached to anything even inanimate objects. The whole dog domestications, the way we are curious to a deadly degree–thirsty for knowledge and tend to speed run the evolution of our civilisation and techonical advancement whilst still running on the old body fleshy hardware of the stone age. How come we managed to split atoms before we figured out how to prevent our faulty spines from degrading.

The passion! The intensity and rush. It's so normal for us because we are drowning in it. Talking to ourselves all the time, experiencing so many ranges of emotions, thinking and deciding and making choices, and jumping from one interest to another. It's not what you'd expect from a species as squishy, weak, and seemingly docile like humans. We are an apex predetor that doesn't look or act like an apex predetor and it fucks with their perception

For a mass effect, for example, our hair makes us stand out! Be it head or body hair, all the other aliens lack it. They have shells, hardened plates, and some even feathers. We have none of that, yet we don't have the excuse of being aquatic like the hanar. Human design is an anomaly, our evaluation pooled all of its gene money into brain, pattern recognition and a massive emotional range. We aren't built for fighting yet we fight all the same, a human can go toe to toe with a krogan and a turian.

Yet we dance, we sing like birds and fluff our feathers.

They must at least be curious about our hair? wondering if it hurts to touch, is it sensitive? Your average alien not realising it's a dead body part and only the roots are alive.

Watching us brush it with curiosity, styling it, and adding nice smelling products, braiding it. Seeing a human doing another human's hair in public or playfully playing with it while bored. So many diverse textures, humans even dye it to whatever colour they want!

[ammonitetheseaserpent]

Moar MD OC info because my mind has been INJECTED with. basically an entire small, interwoven story since the first post where I introduced the concepts.

This is uh. gonna be a long post

Serial Designation Q

- If I had to sum up his personality in a few words, they would be ��chill chaos’.

- The drug-like substance he consumes affects the light he gives off, which is what allows her to shift its color.

- Her fighting/hunting style is kinda reckless, like a honey badger; mainly leaning on brute force, sheer determination and the light trick.

- She doesn’t exclusively do psychedelic effects with his lights for hunts, though - it has entertainment value for him as well.

- Also yee she’s bigender :D

- (I’m starting to debate calling her Q instead for uh. standout purposes. cause I’ve seen a few Ys by now and I don’t wanna cause confusion hhhnshsjdbdb Edit: made the change; I think Q fits him better now that I mull it over :0)

Weird Frog

- That’s the JP-Dilo-Sentinel (name given by Q).

- It guards Celadon’s residence with the Packleader, and was built to give the Sentinels more variety.

- It is particularly small and fast and, instead of the stun stare, the sound of its screech gives off an AoE effect to temporarily paralyze any nearby drone who hears it.

- It has a very playful attitude, putting its all into fending off attackers but also having fun with it; y’know that one scene in Agony of a Witch where Hooty was fending off Lilith and the EC. Yeah uh. that’s pretty much WF in a nutshell.

- It’s quite curious and won’t immediately attack a lone drone it sees approaching the residence unless that drone is clearly looking to be a threat.

The Packleader Sentinel

- It’s the primary guard of Celadon’s residence, and sort of a parental figure to Weird Frog.

- Its stun stare is stronger than that of an average Sentinel, to the point where the flash can cause a bit of lasting damage in drones.

- It was basically built to be like. the Final Boss of the regular Sentinels. Like, something to fall back on if the need arose.

- This one’s a bit silly but: I imagine it was designed based off the Indoraptor and Scorpios Rex like. in-universe. Cause Liam said that the Sentinels were made raptors bc the humans just. liked dinosaurs and thought they were cool. So I imagine the Jurassic Park/movies being in this universe, and while they’re working on the Packleader someone just goes ‘hey what if we based it off those freaky-looking hybrid dinos, like the one that’s a raptor but bigger and creepier :0’.

Avarice SOL

- He was the result of a faulty one-off experiment.

- He has a powerful, insatiable drive to take parts of drones to build on his own form, and bothers Celadon on a regular basis (as stated in the previous post) bc the Hellsinger residence has a lot of what he wants.

- He stole a drone’s voicebox so he can speak, and… I imagine him sounding like that one mackerel in that one Dexter’s Laboratory episode.

Cure PHX

- They were started by Celadon’s parents in order to combat Disassembly Drones. Celadon later finished them, adding the healing abilities they now have.

- Not only can they release a signal to shut off physical pain in other bots, they also have ankle spurs to secrete a substance that’s basically the bot equivalent of melatonin.

- Their functions can be a bit wonky sometimes, and the full power of the UV light/radiation from their wings is only meant to be used in short bursts; too long will cause them delirium from the excess heat and power.

- They’re fully sentient, though due to the nature of their creation, their voicebox is kinda messed up and can produce garbled, birdlike sounds that take effort to form into words - I imagine Cure sounding somewhat like half-healed Centipeetle from Steven Universe.

Celadon Hellsinger

- Her residence is kind of run-down but she refuses to patch it up bc it ‘enhances the elusion factor’.

- She owns a weapon called the Frequency Gauntlet (I uh. stole the name from a mobile game called Monster Legends if I’m being completely frank) that was p much the pet project of her parents and grandparents. they all collaborated to make it.

- The aforementioned Hellsingers are gone now, so she just lives w/ Cure and the two Sentinels (speaking of the two Sentinels her parents basically. donned the FG and stole them very sneakily; I haven’t decided if they were stolen b4 they were put in with the other Sentinels and so they were more chill with drones they didn’t see as a threat, or if the Hellsingers tweaked their programming but uh. yeh)

- She’s usually sort of a pacifist; not nearly as concerned w/ actively confronting and doing battle w/ the DDs as her parents were, and is perfectly content with hiding from them (which doesn’t work out too bad as the Hellsingers made their residence as secluded and unnoticeable as they could to reduce the possibility of being tracked down).

- She’s aroace bc uh. yeh

Extra story bit

- Basically uh. Q happened upon Celadon’s residence at some point while traveling wherever and went over to get a closer look. He was met halfway by Weird Frog, and the two quickly became friendly toward each other. Then later, through WF as a common thread, Q met Celadon and now they’re… not friends, exactly, more like. acquaintances on peaceful terms. and they act a bit like siblings. Q thinks Celadon is cool, while Celadon is a bit more hesitant and often baffled by his antics.

[featuringrandy]

My Faulty Memory of How the Throne Room Scene Ended, Long Version Luke Skywalker: And another thing, you should be ashamed at how poorly you treat a galactic princess. Forcing her to dress in that degrading outfit in front of everyone! Jabba the Hutt (translated): What!? Nobody forced her. In fact, she's the one who picked it out! Luke Skywalker: I've heard a lot of justifications from bad guys recently, but this one beats them all! Jabba the Hutt: No really, she basically designed it herself! She was very fussy about the details, down to the matching unbreakable chain. Luke Skywalker: The sweet princess I know would never debase herself to this level of lewdness. Princess Leia: Look here, short, dark and judgy! You should have seen the wardrobe of fashion horrors I had to work with in this dungeon. There was even a muumuu big enough for a Gamorrean guard! Luke Skywalker: But why would you insist on an unbreakable chain that would keep you trapped here? Princess Leia: Oh, you can be sure I'm not planning on using it for any specific purpose in the near future [glares in frustration at Luke]. Luke Skywalker: Oh yeah, the plan [winks in exaggeratedly conspiratorial manner at Leia]. Jabba the Hutt: Guards! Seize him! [pig-like mercenary in colorful loose dress of Hawaiian origin stomps "menacingly" towards Luke] Not you, Stanley!

[le-souriant]

#MusicMonday Review - November 2024

As the holidays approach rapidly, let's dive in to the dark side of the human condition, with a touch of traveling through time, and space. Give them a listen, with a word from the artists themselves. 🎧

Faulty Cognitions – Sad Sack

Staring at the ceiling while the guilt sloshes round my head I don't wanna die, but think I just might wanna be dead

You look at me like I'm crazy, you don't know what you're talking about Can't keep my eyes open, want to pass right out on this couch My list keeps on growing while my motivation wanes What do you do when what makes you feel better causes you so much pain?

We begin this month's music tour in San Antonio, TX, for a Punk Rock track about the misfortunes of life, looking for our place in the universe, existing in the moment, even if we don't understand it:

"I wrote this song soon after I had decided that my drinking was reaching problem levels. Basically, It was simultaneously the only thing helping me feel okay and the thing that was making me feel like absolute shit. I quit last September and started really throwing myself into mediation and mindfulness, and this is the first song I wrote on the journey. It was also the last song I wrote for the record."

To Kill A Monster – The Past

Here's to the past Yeah I'll drink to that Raise a glass To all we had

Here's a toast To you my friends Until the next time I see you again

Let's keep rockin' all the way to Colombus, OH, for a track about remembering, and being grateful for the people that made us glow with happiness, that may no longer be in our lives. It may seem far away, yet it feels like it was yesterday:

"A lot of reminiscing about old times. Some of my fondest memories are a bunch of nights with a bunch of dumb friends just living in the moment. Not worried about anything, just having fun. Thinking back on all the campfires we sat around I wanted to make something that would hopefully take listeners back to a similar memory.

Musically we went through half a dozen different versions, riffs, and styles before finally landing on this one. I was looking for a very certain feel to the song and I don't think I could be happier with the final result."

Alice Kat – Waves

I can't seem to get a grip on reality My hands aren't serving me And I can't turn around

Held up in my mind I was doing so well for my circumstance Then it all just fell apart

If this journey is mine, how do I change it? If this journey is mine, should I change it?

We move now to Boston, Lincolnshire, England, for an energetic Indie Pop song about the need to calm down, and finding more room to breathe. Just take the waves as they come:

"I had been experiencing a lot of anxiety and trying to find ways to cope with it, one day it all felt too much so I went for a run to try and cool my mind a bit and when I stopped running I sat down and the lyrics just came out. It was like a moment in time of processing feelings out of my control and how I move forward with life after grief and feeling like anxiety was taking over my life.

The chorus is questioning if our lives are designed or we have the choice to choose our own destinies. I wanted the song to feel like that thought process so the instruments drive continuously 🙂🙏🏼"

The Dredge – Brake

You might feel all right But you are mine tonight

You might take offence But you are mine to break

Don't you ever tell me All the sh*t that's in your diary 'Cos I don't want to hear How the stars are there to guide me

Let's take a short jump to Bergen, Norway for a dark Rock track about figuring out if you're a leader, or a follower, and the concept of duality in life. Band member Kjetil explains:

"The track - as much of our music - often has random, happenstance metaphoric starting points in simple word pairs, and then a story evolves around that.

This one started with the simple observation of a skiing slope, that certain skiing poles were sold, whole metal (and heavy) and others where hollow (and lighter). So that became a very convenient metaphor for how people are in general: Whole or hollow. Obviously, a pop-lyric cannot probe the debts of life, but it CAN nonetheless use words to convey some universal perspectives.

So, starting from that word-pair (whole/hollow) a story got attached. We all have certain people we meet in our lives, romantically, professionally or family-wise, where our outwards attitude might be benign, but our inwards thoughts are quite the contrary: one of loathing that persons inability for wholeness.

The idea of the lyric was to give a relief of this movement/transition from the outward attitude to the inward one: moving from something that could be considered benign and perhaps even positive, slowly moving towards something more sinister.😊"

The Acid Machine – Pyschedelic Trip

In the psychedelic journey where the walls begin to fade floating through the universe leaving the world behind electric waves are flowing taking me on a trip

Finally, we end up in Porto Alegre, Brazil for an Acid Rock journey that delves into Stoner Rock and Psychedelic Blues. Enjoy the ride:

"Psychedelic Trip is exactly what the title suggests. As travel through the universe, the lyrics were inspired by Sabbath's Planet Caravan. With a lot of fuzz and groove."

Listen to them and much more on the complete Playlist:

[mitigatedchaos]

Network Rot

Why you should never use a microwave?

Microwaves make your food radioactive and release harmful radiation, which raises your risk of cancer. Microwaves destroy the nutrients in your food, increasing your risk of nutrient deficiencies. Microwaves cause plastic containers to release harmful chemicals into your food.

[...]

Can microwaves explode?

Yes, microwave ovens can explode. If microwave ovens have faulty wiring or are misused, they can emit smoke, catch fire or explode.   Certain foods like grapes, water, and whole eggs can also trigger fires in ovens. Let’s now take a detailed look at microwave oven explosions.

Is it bad to microwave vegetables?

But the truth is that cooking in microwaves is not only perfectly safe, it is one of the best ways to cook vegetables to preserve their nutrients. When it comes to cooking vegetables, exposure to heat causes the breakdown of some nutrients, such as vitamin C.  The microwave does both.

Article found on DuckDuckGo, while searching for information on whether it’s safe to microwave tater tots.  (Yeah, yeah I know you’re supposed to use an oven, but I don’t know how long the temperature needs to remain at whatever amount to kill bacteria, etc, and I don’t want to wait 30 minutes.)  The blog itself has nice design presentation, but it’s unclear just what’s going on here.

The ‘about me’ page sounds human enough, but for the post itself, it’s unclear whether it was written by a human, or whether the site in general was put together by SEO algorithms.  The other sites are pretty much all like this too, with the exception of a blog post from 2010 about (from skimming...) someone accidentally putting a plastic bin in the oven.

Which of course means,

You can’t trust the blog post, since there’s probably no human behind it, and the information may have been automatically copied without any heed to whether it’s correct, or the context.

You can’t trust the answers on quick answer websites, since a human may have copied them from a robot blog post.

There have been a lot of questions about how older styles of information institutions can survive in the information age.  During the 00′s, the wide availability of reasonably reliable information through general search made it seem like they were becoming obsolete.

But it seems that automated spam may bring back pre-y2k information norms. 

There’s a lot I could say about the ecology of it, and blah blah blah, but...

There’s a chance for the older knowledge-making institutions to restore their place, if they can stand to avoid being partisan hacks.

In order for the decentralized model to compete as a way of society to acquire knowledge, it’s going to need a decentralized, network-based way of flagging what is and isn’t a bot/spam.  Basically, a social network whitelist approach - e.g. I trust shieldfoss on what isn’t spam, then trust the people he trusts, and so on, and set a search depth on how many links out that goes.  (This has issues with potential isolation and groupthink.  *I* would trust zexreborn about what isn’t spam even though I disagree with most of his takes, but others might not make that distinction.)

It could be worth it to establish a search engine that websites pay a small annual fee to be listed on, if only to be able to hire a human being to check if they’re legit or not.  Reports could then be in the form of wagers, where the reporter gets money if they’re deemed correct that a site is a bot, and loses money if it’s deemed they were wrong about that.

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

I heavily dislike most "Would win in a fight Goku or Naruto" type discussions because those two characters exists in different parameters of strength because they come from different works with different rules and that is the case with most characters these types of argument revolve around. And so it becomes kind of pointless to me since "Of course Goku would win, in his series being abble to destroy an entire planet is basic stuff by now" you get what i mean?

Yeah I understand the appeal of "who would win" in a way, but frankly I've always been much more interested in the story you can tell from the two characters fighting rather than measuring their exact amount of strength or speed or whatever, which is never going to work because the characters weren't designed with exact amounts of strength or speed. If you can't make a compelling story out of them fighting, then all you've got is a faulty equation.

[hexcii]

Hello hello Hexcii! I saw your post about Faulty by design and as a DCA lover i wanted to ask what kind of storyline and what kind of relationship the robos will have with the protag! No pressure in answering if you want to keep it secret during the creation process :P

DCA LOVER 🤝🤝🤝

I don’t wanna reveal all too much but simplified I’d say it’s (one sided) enemies to mutual friends to lovers if that makes sense djjekcjd

The DCA kinda start out pretty much hating Y/N at first with Y/N just kinda accepting it, but warm up to them throughout the fic, becoming friends and because I am the biggest simp, fall in love yayyyyy

So yeah it ends up being romantic :]]]

It’s basically this (spoilers below!!)

Growing together to become better people by the power of love and this gun that I found <//33

Y/N is a wet cat but they’re my precious little meow meow (going through the horrors)

[bokunoheroanalysisforthefuture]

Alright, end of volume four! Let’s see what else is in here.

First off, a little side comic:

While it is played as a spoof, this is interesting since it seems like something of an actual issue in BNHA - namely the issue of quirk needs versus societial expectations when it comes to clothing.

Midnight points out that with her quirk, inadequate exposure gets in the way of performance. Her initial debut costume was risque enough that it ended up forcing regulations in terms of costume exposure. However, in her case, sexiness wasn’t the goal, and wasn’t necessary - it’s just that what was necessary in her case happened to be ‘sexy.’

This is honestly a really touching and important topic that she’s touching on here, and she seems to be taking it seriously... and then Mount Lady is used to basically be bitchy and completely divert the talk with some petty catfighting that really wasn’t necessary imo.

So yeah, this increases my respect for Midnight a great deal and gives some good insight into her in a short comic, so I can just sort of look away from the rest of it and enjoy what we’ve been given.

Next, the inner flaps of the cover.

I wonder if that’s an image Kaminari actually got on his phone? Huh.

Inside cover page.

Interesting early design for Tsuyu... and honestly lowkey terrified of early alpha Tenya.

(Also, why is the font not even consistent??? translators please. a translation for the second one for people who can’t read it:

Iida’s preliminary design. Well, so I say, but this was back when the school setting wasn’t even decided yet, so he’s nearly a totally different character. As far as helmet designs go, I still like this one a lot.)

...I think this mask eventually got kind of reworked into that bird helmeted guy from the first chapter? I don’t recall it used elsewhere, but maybe my memory’s just faulty.

Next, assistant introductions:

I guess each assistant’s fave character in their own art styles? Certainly has a lot of variety... also, now I want to see that net challenge as an alt event... hrm...

Last two pages:

Aw yeah, that funky Present Mic. Also, that ‘late Friday night’ is actually a very early morning, isn’t it? 1 am to 5 am? And Izuku listens to this every week? Nerd is really dedicated to heroes...

Anywho, next time, some volume 5 material, and then Ochako vs Katsuki! See y’all then! <3

[fandom-necromancer]

Finding each other Part 2

This was prompted by the amazing @headfulloffantasy and @downeyjrfreak! Thank you for your patience and I hope you enjoy!

Fandom: Detroit become human | Ship: Reed900 | AU: Soulmate AU [Part1]

The drive home had been more than awkward. Gavin, having hastily loaded his job and the rest of the rescued androids on some unfortunate intern, had short of pulled the RK900 out of the precinct and to his car. And while the android sat on the passenger side with barely any movement, Gavin’s heart seemed to beat with the same rhythm as the engine in front of him. Finally home, they exited the car standing next to the open doors and looked at the small suburban house Gavin only managed to get because half of the neighbourhood was almost deserted. A bit self-conscious, he looked over to the android he barely knew, who apparently wanted to scan every little detail, because he was staring.

‘It’s not much’, he stammered almost as an apology. ‘But it’s mine, home.’ He coughed. ‘Well, ours now I guess.’ He kneaded his neck just to give his hands something to do and looked over. He stared directly into the android’s blue eyes. ‘It’s yours?’, he asked so silent it was almost drowned out by the slight breeze. ‘Ours?’ ‘If you want it to be?’, Gavin shrugged, taken off guard by the surprised tone. ‘You can of course also join the other androids at Jericho. If it’s too fast for you or-‘ ‘I want to be where you are.’ ‘Oh’, Gavin swallowed what he had been about to say. ‘Of course. Then let’s head on in.’

They closed the doors of the car and Gavin took the lead to the porch. Gavin unlocked the door and walked inside, waiting for the android to follow that did so tentatively, scanning what little he could see of the hallway. He closed the door behind him and followed Gavin’s movements while he kicked off his shoes and hung up his jacket. His eyes flew over a few pictures hung up next to the coat rack and Gavin stopped to look at them too. ‘Photo’s of my friends, mostly. A few vacations too.’ He tried a small half-smile, but it did little to chase the awkwardness away that lingered between them.

It was his cat that finally interrupted it, running up to them and weaving through Gavin’s legs to see who that newcomer was. ‘You have a cat?’, the android asked with wide eyes, crouching down and holding out his hand. ‘Yes. Do you like cats?’ ‘I don’t know’, the RK900 answered, completely focussed on the small feline walking up to him just to sniff and headbutt his fingers. ‘I think so, though.’ ‘Right, you never saw one before, right?’, Gavin commented, remembering that the android likely hadn’t been outside Cyberlife Tower until the raid. ‘No, this is the first time. It’s soft.’ ‘I’m sorry. It’s hard to imagine you never did… well, anything really. I think we really should talk.’ The android nodded, standing up again and waiting for Gavin to once again lead the way.

He brought him to the small living room and pointed towards the old cosy couch tucked away to one side of the room facing towards a large flatscreen and a coffee-table in between. Multiple old mugs with dark coffee-stains on the bottom piled on it together with takeout containers and a lone candle meant as decoration. ‘I’m sorry for the mess’, Gavin stammered, even if just to break the silence. ‘I didn’t really expect to… well, to meet my soulmate today.’ ‘I feel the same. I was… Well, your name on my wrist used to be the only thing giving me hope. It made me think I just had to somehow get out of there, once I had managed that there would be a person out there for me that would help me. When I was saved and taken out of that lab… I mean, I still had the name, but how should I even find you? I realised I vastly underestimated how hard it would be to find one human among millions. I was scared for a long time, but the moment I realised that I felt lost, too. Hearing the name in the queue, I thought I must have imagined it. But you had my designation and… I’m just relieved. It’s hard to feel anything beyond that.’

Gavin swallowed hard. It sounded like there was a whole lot of things the android wasn’t saying and none of them would be anything pleasant. Still, he couldn’t help but ask: ‘What did they do to you? If you don’t mind telling. You don’t have to!’ The android looked up at him. ‘I was designed as Connor’s successor. A machine to hunt and kill deviants. And I was thoroughly tested to what extend I was capable of doing that. Sometimes I wished I had been a machine, just so I don’t need to know exactly how it feels, just so I wouldn’t have to reflect on what I did and how it must have felt for the deviant I killed. Even if it was just a simulation it felt real. And I wasn’t a machine. I had been infected when a rogue deviant broke into the lab to get my help. He was killed, but I had his code and the next simulation I deviated. Knowing what they would do to me first-hand though, I did my best to hide it. And I was good with that. They just thought my programming was faulty, not that I was a deviant.’ He paused for a while, looking down on Gavin’s name on his wrist. ‘But because of that they changed me. They stripped away parts of me and replaced them with others. Deleted some completely. I remember existing in some form of a blank slate for an hour because they were on lunchbreak. But no matter how much they changed me, the fact that I never lost you…‘ He nervously faced Gavin again. ‘The fact that I never lost your name on my wrist throughout it all gave me hope. That no matter how much they changed me, you were still out there, and I just had to find a way out. That I wasn’t as alone as I thought to be.’

‘Way to set high expectations’, Gavin chuckled humourless. ‘But hell, that really sounds bad. I hope I can help you. Usually I’m not the person people would come to for that.’ ‘I escaped, and I found the person fate decided was perfect for me. I am safe. Most of my life that was my only goal. Right now I think I just need a place to stay and get used to… learn what it means to actually live I guess.’ ‘S-sure, you can stay here for as long as you want’, Gavin offered, unsure what else to say. He had spent so much time worrying whether his soulmate actually existed, that now that he sat right in front of him, he didn’t know what to do. ‘Cyberlife took a hard blow to their image and lost most, if not all of their power. I don’t think you have to worry about them ever again.’ ‘Thank you’, the RK900 whispered, brushing his thumb over his soul mark just like Gavin had done countless times in the past.

‘What about you?’, the android asked then. ‘I doubt not having a name on your wrist had been easy for you.’ Gavin huffed, finally prying the wristband away and showing the black letters and numbers openly. ‘No, it wasn’t. But no comparison to your story either.’ ‘Please, do tell me’, the android insisted. ‘You are my soulmate and I know nothing about you.’ Gavin leaned back and sighed deeply. ‘Hell, where would I even begin? Everyone thought it was a glitch. Everyone thought I would be someone without a soulmate but fate glitched out and I ended up with this keysmash basically. I wanted to believe it wasn’t and there was some reason for these numbers. Was bullied for them in school and was caught between wishing them away just not to be the weirdo and clinging to your name because it meant there was someone out there. Hid it in the end, but that didn’t help making finding friends easier. It only got better when I met Tina during police academy. She has the same kind of mark. She is destined for a ST300. When androids were released to the public, I must admit I started to really hate my mark and androids with it. I thought that it was an insult to be considered such a bad soul only a lifeless android could fit to me. But with deviancy you basically became persons and my view gradually changed.’

‘So you are not ashamed of having a different mark than other humans?’, the RK900 wanted to know. ‘What? No. Never really was to be honest. I was angry. I felt betrayed being told there was someone for me but having to always doubt myself. Living with the possibility it had all been just a glitch, that I would end up with a mindless machine and then after seeing the RK800 be released, having hope again, just to lose it once again after the revolution. But I was never ashamed of it.’ ‘Why did you lose hope to find me after the revolution?’, RK900 asked. ‘Well, there were no new androids being produced. If your line ended at the RK800, then suddenly the glitch possibility was there again. As was the thought that maybe I would have met you if the revolution wasn’t successful.’ ‘But then the name would have vanished, hadn’t it?’ ‘I don’t have the slightest idea how these things work, tin-can’, Gavin sighed. ‘I was desperate for some explanation at the time. Because I was terrified of staying alone all my life. Always told myself there are a lot of people out there happy living their life without any romantic relationship, but somehow that never sat right with me. And with my soulmark evident, hell, who in his sane mind would date me? I wanted you to exist. Wanted nothing more than meeting you one day.’

‘Maybe we do fit together then’, the android concluded with a calm blue spinning LED. ‘Both desperately wanting the other to exist and be there.’ ‘For vastly different reasons maybe but yeah. You’ve been through a lot more shit than I have.’ ‘I wouldn’t say that’, RK900 disagreed. ‘You had to live with it for thirty-six years. I only for about half a year. I can’t imagine how it must have been for you.’ Gavin nodded a bit uncomfortable. In his eyes his struggle wasn’t even remotely similar to the android’s, but comparing suffering was likely a bad idea in the first place. ‘Well, it’s over now’, Gavin concluded, defeated and feeling tired suddenly. ‘It’s over’, the android agreed.

‘What do we do now?’, the human asked after a few moments of silence. ‘Can I hug you again?’, RK900 asked. ‘It felt really good the last time.’ Gavin smirked at that and shrugged. ‘Sure.’ They scooted closer on the couch and the android put his arms around Gavin, who did the same. Leaned against each other like this, holding the other they barely knew and yet felt completely safe with, a comfortable silence settled around them for the first time. Gavin’s cat joined them after a while and Gavin himself gradually lost all of his tension. ‘I waited far too long for this’, he mumbled already sleepy and settled against the android in a more comfortable position. He felt how RK900 in his back looked down on him by the way his chest angled itself against his shoulder. Then he returned to his resting position and a gust of warm, slightly stale air hit the side of his head. ‘Me too.’

[antiloreolympus]

*sees the latest spoilers here* ….. Hades broke his dick to be a ceo? What the fuck?

An easy fix to this would to just have it where Hades was just unlucky in the baby juice department when he was born/made/whatever (either because he is a death god or becasueas the first born was more prone to having some faulty designs) buuuuuut noooo gotta be real fucking weird with this shit , never mind how it seems like his pressuring a barely legal teen to do the same

But if Persephone is a ”fertility“ goddess (which the more I think on , seems more like Demeter thing) how does this work for her exactly? Wouldn’t she basically loose her powers if she’s not fertile anymore?

And christ the whole over sharing trauma thing, thank god I aren’t subscribed to that train wreck anymore

Yeah, Persephone only asked about the affair. She didn't ask for him to talk in detail about Hera's trauma.

-----FP Spoilers-----

Man really lost his baby batter for power over the underworld 😭🤚

Also, It isn't even Hades pressing her this time. However, it seems like the tree made another pomegranate 100 years ago meaning that it was probably preparing for Persephone for a long time.....

It seems like RS is trying to fix the age thing but if Persephone is around 100 or so, it's gonna seem like she was destined to be his bride since birth 🤢

Plus, they haven't even gone on a date yet and Persephone is asking 100 questions about the pomegranate and even asking about marriage. It's like RS is speeding this story up as the pacing in that episode was so off.

[hurt-juice]

goddammit i have so many aus in my brain so i’ll just focus on one

it’s like this cyberpunk au where it’s main focus is trish but there are some side characters that she meets along the way!! here are the first base designs/versions of mista (cyborg due to being shot so many times and having things replaced and biker) and narancia (a mechanic)

yes narancia’s design is based off of entrapta’s a bit

will it change? hell yeah. i want these to be filled and detailed in the future!!!

all i know of this au so far (or what i’ve decided to think about it,,,,for the moment) is that trish is somewhat of a cyborg? and basically she does run away from diavolo or something along the lines of it (excuse my poor grammar atm, will fix once i’m not hyper) and escapes into the large futuristic city that is naples! the first people she meets are buccellati (also a bit of a cyborg? maybe? or he’s different but i’ll label him as cyborg for the moment) and a high-tech ex-officer abbacchio (used to be a part of some police shit as one of the humans there but. got kicked out or left for some reason? haven’t thought it through) and they both have advanced tech equipment and help trish replace some parts and basically fit her into what she wants to be? because diavolo was just “yes let’s use faulty equipment on child” and buccellati was not happy when trish told 0.1% of her dad

so of course commit Adopt(tm) happened

but then along the way! she decides to explore more and i’m not exactly sure what happens in the meantime (i’ll keep it updated though) but she eventually meets a biker named mista, who has hidden his cyborg parts (mainly his head/skull and chest) to be more “human” and bypass more things, she gets a ride from him and meets his mechanic named narancia!!

yes narancia has a backless shirt - working on smithing and tech things homemade is hard and sweaty and he likes showing his tattoo of aerosmith!! it’s his first ever plane he’s built as a kid, and everything he learns is mostly self-taught

i still haven’t thought of anything for fugo or giorno though, as they are still in concept creation section of my brain >:)

if you guys wanna ask me things about the au please do!! i love exploring concepts and my brain has too many ideas that I must Share.

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oh and I guess giorno without his braid is there, say hello to pretty giorno!!

(don’t tag as gio//mis)