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Thinking more about Mech dysphoria today.

Stepping out of your cockpit and stumbling because you don't have the right number of legs.

Blinking your eyes out of sync because you don't have the right number anymore, don't have access to on board cameras the way you're supposed to.

Struggling to grab and pick things up because you have the wrong number of fingers.

Failing to recognize your face in the mirror without layers of armor plating over it.

Feeling like a brain pulled from its body and forced to function independently.

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In this moment, you are loved.

(Please play In Stars and Time by @insertdisc5!!! It's the perfect combo of time loop angst, found family, and horrible puns.)

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BUT YOU HATE BEING THE TIE-BREAKER...! [characters are from In Stars And Time, a videogame by @insertdisc5]

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Phew, finally finished some proper fan art! I love the use of mask imagery when theatre themes are at play ~ In case all my silly doodles haven't been an indication, I love this game! Give it a shot! Some details of the characters below the cut (＾▽＾)

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Bad End - Part 11

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Bad End - Part 9

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it is important, now more than ever, to make friends you can roleplay extremely specific blorbo scenarios with. you have to be crying at 3am over angst scenarios generated by your elaborate among us based au. its good for the economy.

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This was my favorite scene from the anime and I really wanted to recreate it! uwu

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I mean, what else is there to say? Dimension 20 - On A Bus was one of the greatest first episodes of D20 to date. Incredible players, stellar setting, and AMAZING DM-ing by Katie! For a first time running a game, she absolutely NAILED it. I had my doubts, but if there's anyone who can fill Brennan's American Girl Shoes, it's her. @dropoutdottv @dimension20official @gamechangershow, if you need someone to do character art for the new season, I'm your man!

(And to everyone else, I do actual D&D commissions if you're interested)

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Free worldbuilding idea:

Wizards have the same trust in magic that software designers have in software, which is to say, almost none at all.

“Are you fucking kidding me I worked in a reagrent shop for a few years I don’t trust any of that stuff. Who the hell knows what other components are in the ashes.”

“Yeah I was in the circle that made Alston’s Divine Circle of Teleportation. There’s some pretty nasty corner cases you can get into but the headmaster published it without us. I just take ships. It’s way safer.”

“I call bullshit on that Necromancer channeling spirits of loved ones. What did he say he was using? ‘Medium Conduit Ruinic Circles’? That’s just a bunch of buzzwords slapped together, and they don’t even interact with each other.”

“I’ve been looking at this scroll all morning and I’m 90% sure that the scribe didn’t even look at the standard for pyromancies.”

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That one scene from Network Effect that I love so much (but it was commissioned) 🙏🙏🙏

(And for anyone curious, yes my comms are open)

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I wish there was a website where you could input a character's description (height, weight, sex, medical conditions, etc.) And a situation (car crash, falls, stabbing, etc.) And it would calculate for you from most to least likely the injuries that character would receive, potential complications, and how long it would take recover. This would make writing injuries SO MICH EASIER if I wasn't guessing at everything

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There’s something very tragic in the way that not only was murderbot not allowed to establish ties to other secunits by virtue of being a rental unit, but also in the way that after going rogue other secunits, by no choice of their own, became the biggest threats to it

like,, there are so many points in the books where the way it talks about other secunits is. off. dismissive or not really talking about them as if they’re other people

and at the same time I get it. murderbot can’t treat other secunits as victims because that would get it killed so fast, because if it thought of them as people then how could it not reach out, or hesitate, or try to bend the rules in any way it could? and they’re other secunits - pattern recognition experts who, unlike humans, know exactly what will and will not activate a governor module. the moment murderbot softened towards them, the moment it hesitated, the other unit would pick that up and potentially expose it as a rogue unit. it wouldn’t even be the other secunit’s choice per se, but thanks to the gov module they wouldn’t have a choice on whether to reveal murderbot or not

and then after murderbot runs - how can you start thinking of them as other people and other victims when that makes you confront your own inaction, standing by and doing nothing when you are likely the only person at the table who is MAKING the choice to do nothing. it’s so much easier to justify doing nothing, not even trying to free the people around you, if you convince yourself that a rogue unit is way way too dangerous and would kill everyone around it and also the people you like (and ignoring the concrete fact that you didn’t become that when you went rogue) and isn’t even a person anyway

idk I think I’m just sad about the fact that murderbot says with its full chest that secunits don’t care about each other right up until three shows up and proves that wrong

Just the tragedy that three got to make and forge those relationships while murderbot not only had to go it alone but was in active danger at even the most benign interaction with other secunits as far as its memory goes

I wonder if pre-memory wipe murderbot had relationships with other secunits? I wonder what its opinions on other units were before it had to shut down any empathy towards them to survive

Idk, just thinking about it

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a direct followup to my other post of them meeting, which I've already changed how I draw MB 3 times since then, including once since I started this but it's *FINE* we're putting it out anyway because I'm not drawing ART all over again

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the real reason I put the art comic up is because I've already (once again) tweaked how I draw MB to make it MUCH easier and more fun so I can draw more scenes <3

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Making a weighted velvet baikal seal plushie :3

Head and tail end are stuffed w ultra plush fiber fill and the bulk of the body is packed full of weighted pellets that have a nice crunchy sound when you squeeze it. Not weighed yet, but it feels between 1.5 - 2lbs?