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im still mad about this but skibidi toilet has

genuinely

awesome

object heads

in

suits

like im sorry if you are afraid of cringe but if i knew the object heads were this level of awesome i would have started watching so long ago finished it today and there's real plot and characters and lore and world building and everything how is this allowed

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heya everyone :3 took a giant sudden break from tumblr but we are so back now

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The interview where Dafuq confirmed that Techfolks were human is sadly legit. There's a screenshot of it on the server, he's talking to a user called Iron Cameraman.

How does it even work? Were the Titans even human? I really, really hate this information.

...Now there's another possible scenario that I don't want to imagine- what if they were never robots at all, not even mind-upload robots like Glados (or Polaroid). They are all technically human with human brains and varying levels of cybernetics augmentations.- and their blood is actually blood. And that's why they only bleed in the torso and neck area because their limbs are mechanical but they still need blood for their brains.

Perhaps the only reason they became Techfolks was due to the quirk of skibidi infection - it requires the original head of the host to be intact. (All skibidi have their faces intact) So the alliance came up with the idea to replace unit skull/face with hardware shells to prevent infection. But parasites still work on them because they still have human brains. And if you looked at earlier parasite episodes. Infected Techfolks grew longer fingers, so their 'flesh' could still be affected.

The only issue with this idea is why do they use serial numbers instead of human names?

What will you think of this turns out to be the case?

In my opinion, perhaps it's a Dafuq's Doylist rewrite to explain Techfolks bleeding, parasite and inconsistencies in earlier episodes where the ideas weren't set in stone.

I will be so pissed off. It feels like such a cop-out explanation and strips away a lot of what I like about this series.

DFB can do what he wants; it's his series. But this has disappointed those of us who got into the series because 'yay funny robot'.

I really hope this is all just to throw off the YouTube theorists, like how the Simpsons creators prevented the leaks of who shot Mr Burns by making several alternative versions of the scene.

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Episode 77 part 2

Spoiler free:

Haha, this is like videogames

Hmmm! Lore drop!

Haha, oh no

What

Spoilers ahead!

As always, it's funny as hell that dead toilets explode on impact, as though they're made of some sort of Explodium material.

Rambo is very oily/sweaty now - I think DFB is definitely doing fan-service for the mutant trio fans :D

I don't really understand how suddenly the goodies are able to kick Astro ass (asstro) all of a sudden, when previously the Astros were too powerful. Plot armour?

Swat using his khopeshes as a ranged weapon is very videogames, haha.

Swat gives us a literal lore drop (dropping his tablet on the ground, which POV picks up and looks at).

This tells us several things and is worth the entire episode!

The character indicated with a question mark appears to be Secret Agent to me; it looks like the figure from the poster in episode 70:

I'm not great with faces, but that's Secret Agent, isn't it?

But why is he marked with a question mark?? Presumably Swat knows SA was Alpha Hills administrator, because the skibs had this poster we saw in episode 70. Who added the question mark?

But the title? Special Government Objects Defence Service? What 'objects' was the government defending against??

Does this mean techfolk were hostile to humans at this point, or were the defence service experimenting with using objects themselves, and accidentally created/became skibidi toilets?

Also, the 3 defence service members with uncovered faces - again, I'm bad with faces, but are those not the mutant trio??

The implications!!

We then get to see a large cam who looks very like a mini TCam! (Ignoring that 'miniature titan' is an oxymoron.) There's the shoulder cams, the dented lens protector, the energy shield, the backpack hardware resembling the titan's flight-pack, the big-ass chainsword acting as melee weapon in an echo of TCam's hammer, and an Ol' Painless-style gun that the cam uses on its arm like TCam does. (Chainsaws are not great as a melee weapon in real life, but hey, Rule of Cool.)

They've got a similar outfit to the two salmon-shirts. Lucky is already accounted for (currently under arrest), and we haven't seen 'Karl' (the black-headed salmon-shirt cam) for ages. Did he get an upgrade??

I'm wondering if this cam is going to be the narrative substitute for Plunk, i.e. this will become the elite Cam unit. And are we going to see a similar unit for the Speaker faction? (The TVs already have Sabre.)

We all noticed Kitty Cam, right?

I love how the Cams' lens-protectors catch the orange light and momentarily visually echo the amber eyes of the mutant trio. It's a little cinematic flair that hammers home how the two factions have joined forces!

The other cam might be the Plunk-lookalike we saw in leaks. It seems more Cams are getting the same cyan torch that Plunk had.

Then we get to see what made Rambo say 'damn!' (Not quite a spoiler because it was in the episode thumbnail.)

Cam Matriarch got some upgrades! I really hope she can still do that thing where she retracts her head like a turtle and brings out her time-slowing flechette cannon. The extra cannons are 'cool' but her previous appearance had a unique charm to me.

NO.

NO.

NO.

NO.

NO.

Hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate

I hate this

Chew my bum

This is not allowed to be the truth

Hate hate hate hate hate

I don't want the robots to be transformed humans! I hate this idea and I will hate it forever!

I appreciate the extra bit of lore - "As one, to the end." (But it doesn't sound like Cathy's previous voice! Boo!) Who exactly is POV cam in this episode?

Summary: Good lore drop but HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE

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HOLY SHIT TODAY WAS INSANE

DOORS FLOOR 2, TEASER OF THE NEXT ULTRAKILL UPDATE AND AN ABSOLUTELY FIRE SKIB EPISODE???? GRAHHHH IM STILL PROCESSING ALL OF THIS

Thoughts about all three (i know this is a skib only blog but its MY blog and i get to do what i want with it,,,,) below the cut

Seems like a simple lazer cannon is enough to kill the average astro troops with medium difficulty. They're extremely powerful, but as easy as it is to feel like they're indomitable walls that can't be crushed, enough firepower seems to shred them up haha

SWAT and the boomerang sickles!! Absolutely badass

Not sure why the sentimental, calm and comforting yet eerie music was playing as that one large cam came in. It might be the repaired lazer large cam, and if so, that IS great, but I'm not sure if it warrants that soundtrack choice.

This whole shot just SCREAMS "We are SO back" I genuinely got so hyped when I seen it

CAMERAWOMAN UPGRADES❗️❗️ She is SO badass now. She floats like a mindflayer too bwehehe. I love how the protection she has on the top of her cam makes it look like she's frowning - same with TCam and his dented lens. It really gives the cams this "dont fuck with me or I'll turn you into mincemeat" look/vibe and I love it

that pushing down the glasses plus the "DAMNN!" from rambo was absolutely brilliant I'm giggling so hard at that bit,,,,

Camerawoman is confirmed to have been Cathy! I remember (the very amazing mutual of mine) @/lensman-arms-race saying something before about preferring the robots as having always been robots and honestly yeah I'm gonna have to agree here. I like it when machines are always beep boop beep boop, not organic flesh -> beep boop beep boop, but don't get me wrong I'm still fine with it lmao. in canon they may have been humans, but in my head they've always been little machines /silly

okay brief non-skib stuff rant now

Floor 2 is AMAZING HELLO??? I can see why LSplash took like. How long has it been. A year? Two? However long into cooking this. Haven't made it past door 134 yet as I haven't played the game in AGES and I have a major skill issue but anyways. I want to pick giggle up and hold it like borgar and treasure it its literally everything to me. I didn't know its name before getting the badge so I called it Bobby as it just felt right and the name has stuck ever since

Okay even briefer ultrakill thoughts now

THEY FIXED THE SKYBOX!!! IT ACTUALLY LOOKS GOOD NOW IM SO HAPPY

THE CRANES!!! I went crazy over these I really don't know why but I did

That ending bit was silly teehee

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[the hunter]

large speaker(wo)man oc, loves hunting astros but what she truly wants is just to live a normal life with peace

more info below

she covers her head and weapon when on the move ^

transfem (saw an old human magazine about girly stuff and had an instant neuron activation lol)

quite protective of her allies

likes a lot of 80s pop songs and plays it on her speaker

the white ribbon is an exception of the kills, it represents a fallen close ally (but truthfully i added it to balance her color scheme lol)

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someone reposted your rambo crushing the astro with his tits art on r/skibiditoilet and within 2 hours it already has 55 upvotes and there's only 2 types of comments. (a) stereotypical eye bleach / traumatised comment (b) "IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN MEEEE BETWEEN THOSE PECS!!!"

if you want to check it out here's the link :3

https://www.reddit.com/r/skibiditoilet/comments/1ezjm4w/peak_comedy_execution/

WHOEVER YOU ARE THANK YOU FOR TELLING ME THIS THE FUCKING COMMENT SECTION IS HILAROUS LMFAOOOOOOOOOOO DID I REALLY BREAK PEOPLE WITH MY RAMBOOBS DRAWING IM CRYING I GUESS I SHOULD HAVE EXPECTED TO SEE IT IN REDDIT LMAOOOOO THANK YOU FOR THIS, THIS MADE MY NIGHT also thank you @era404-skib and @luciledrakkhen for this crediting me in the comments, yall too sweet <3333333

context: this is now the third time someone mentioned david haselhoff with this drawing I GUESS THIS IS MY GODDAMN LEGACY NOW LMFAO

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I was thinking about that parasite! Heres my theory:

maybe its is the Astro equivalent of a parasite? It would work on organic life though - it could cut through a skibidi's neck and attach itself to the nerves and veins so it would get control of the brain. Then, the astros would be able to give it astro upgrades and technology and poof, new astro toilet.

Thinking about it, if mini juggernaut REALLY was a dog as alot of people theorize, the Astros are probably pretty desperate for soldiers to end up using a literal animal. Perhaps all the high ranking Astros (UFO, Entrapper, Mothership, Juggernaut, Duchess, etc) are a shape-shifting species of alien that are taking on the skibidi human-like form and all regular soldiers are simply captured and infected skibidis? It would explain the sudden mass disappearance of regular, little og toilets - they've been turned into Astro troops. I don't think this is true but if it is then DFB has definitely watched Gemini Home Entertainment lmao

What I'm wondering is how it managed to scream despite having lungs! Can astros breathe without oxygen?

Episode 77 part 1

Short and sweet! It had some important points that move the story onwards.

I think that's the first time we saw humans die (apart from the Half Life characters getting squished in early episodes).

This episode spells out explicitly that yes, G-squad and Cams are officially collaborating. (I laughed at 'Why is bro aiming at me, is he stupid?') But will the Soundkind and TVs go along with this? And what are the TVs cooking in their lab?

I reckon the TVs will appear to split away from the Alliance while they build their secret thing, but they'll come back when it's ready and save the day. They don't really care if the rest of the Alliance is suspicious of them because they do what they want anyway.

When the G-squad killed that astro and pulled its head off - its head appeared to be a parasite. Is that how Scientist created the parasites? By reverse-engineering the astros??

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I feel like UTTV would secretly have… severe crippling social anxiety

Ik he’s cocky and arrogant an’ all but still

big strong man afraid of socializing with people he doesn’t know is <3 to me

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Gtoilet your restraining order means nothing to me

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MAKE FANDOM CRINGE AGAIN!!!!!! REBLOG IF YOU THING FANDOM SHOULD BE CRINGE AGAIN!!!!!!

I mean selfship, bad art, bad writing, bad cosplay, weird theories and harmless headcanons, crossover ships, oc x canon, mary sue ocs, all of it. If it’s for your own personal entertainment it hurts NOBODY!!!

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Who wears each colour best?

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𝓕𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂 𝓣𝓲𝓽𝓪𝓷 𝓣𝓥 𝓜𝓪𝓷

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I have that kind of plurality where I mostly hear other people talking in my head as them being co con with me and even when others do front I’m still there watching, which means a lot of things but what matters for this is that it means I get social anxiety whenever my headmates try to have fun which I’m sure is annoying to them so

Reblog this post if you’re okay with guy from shows talking in the reblogs of your posts about the shows or don’t I guess you don’t have to reblog it but it would maybe make me feel better to have a reminder that people really don’t care that much

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Absolutely love ALL of this! As an argument to verify that's actually how cameramen see, I rewatched 54 on 0.25x speed (would not recommend with sound on) and glitch toilet literally cannot be seen until he's fully stopped by the Imperator (theres the langauge from your fics rubbing off on me, bwoo ha ha). Its like the floaty bird, but even faster to the point of being invisible entirely.

Headcanons for techfolk vision

Cameras

As we can see from the episodes themselves, Cam vision is very similar to human vision! One way it differs is that when Cams are physically hit or shocked, their vision greys out with scanlines and other artefacts.

You can see a real-life example of this in this video, in which a skydriver drops a video camera and it keeps recording until it lands (in a pig pen!)

As the camera tumbles, it spins faster than its sensors can keep up with, resulting in the video turning into a series of diagonal lines. Most digital cameras record in a 'sweep', going from one edge or corner to the opposite one. It looks as though this camera records in a diagonal sweep.

This also means that Cameramen possibly don't see things like propellors and hummingbird wings as a blur, as we do - they'd see it as a choppy effect, depending on how the movement syncs with the Cameraman's framerate.

Here's a bird appearing to hover perfectly because its wings happen to match the camera's shutter speed:

As far as Cameramen are concerned, that's probably just how birds are! They don't see bird wings as a flippa-flappa or propellors as a rounda-rounda blur.

Presumably, Cameramen cannot perceive the chimerical colours, which are colours humans can see thanks to how our retinas form afterimages:

Soundkind

I headcanon that Soundkind primarily perceive the world through echolocation. It's not really possible for humans to grasp what this 'looks' like. We've all heard of Thomas Nagel's essay 'What is it like to be a bat?' But at least a bat is a mammal like us, so it'll have mostly the same neural pathways as us. It's not outside the realms of possibility that bats 'see' the world in the same colours as us, but the colours are triggered in the brain's perception by wavelengths of sound rather than light. But Soundkind aren't even animals! Who knows how a tech brain processes this data?

I also headcanon that the Soundkind can see with light to a degree, just not as well as a human, Cameraman or TVman. Their vision is low-res and is heavy on the reds (hence their use of red as an emblematic colour), similar to a human with tritanomaly.

Here's Tri-Cam, approximately as a human or Cameraman would perceive them (from this SketchFab model):

Here's how Soundkind might 'see' Tri-Cam with echolocation. (I took the 'matcap + surface' version of the model to get just the contours without textures, then noodled with it a little in GIMP.)

Here's a scene approximately how a human or Cameraman would perceive it (source):

And how it might look to a Soundkind using their visual processing - mainly red (achieved using a tritanopia simulator), and low resolution:

Here's another 3D model, a bit more colourful than Tri-Cam, as a human or Cameraman might perceive it (source):

Putting together the above info, here's how a Soundkind might perceive it using their echolocation overlaid with their optical vision:

TVs

TVs are primarily optic-based, like humans and Cameras. Their vision overlaps less with the human range than the Cameramen's vision does. TVs see further into the infra-red than humans and Cams (unless said Cams have specialised thermal vision), and their vision has much more of a purple cast, hence their use of purple as an emblematic colour.

TVs can see even in complete darkness (by our standards), because everything above absolute zero gives off IR radiation. However, an environment of absolutely uniform temperature would appear blank, because there would be no differences in IR for the TVman to see. In addition, TVs can't see the temperature of stuff behind glass - they would only see the temperature of the glass itself (same as the limitations for real thermal cameras).

My infra-red headcanon is purely based on the fact that TV remotes are usually IR-based (more modern ones use Bluetooth).

...I don't have a speculative image to show, because to my surprise I couldn't find good quality pictures online of the same scene taken with RGB and with thermal (so I can combine them the way I want them). They were all either postage stamp-sized or they didn't align properly. Hopefully you can imagine something!

This video shows something a bit like what I'm thinking of:

The video shows that the thermal cam has something called 'MSX', which combines the thermal image with the light image, giving you the thermal imaging info combined with the surface patterns from the light imaging info. However, my headcanon is closer to 'human vision (but a bit more purple) combined with a black-hot greyscale thermal image', as opposed to the purple and yellow mess seen here.

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Unused fic fragment

Found this in my drafts - I don't remember which fic it was originally going to go in. It still makes me laugh, but I didn't use it because it felt a bit too forced lol-random-zany. Plus it makes Phaeton into a kind of Bart Simpson character, and they're a bit more mature than that.

You staple an expired packet of jam to a tree stump. You put down the staple gun and pick up a hammer - in one smooth movement, you throw the hammer into the air and catch it by the handle, then bring down the head of the hammer onto the packet of jam, making it burst and splat a jammy radius.

Your communicator rings. Normally you'd ignore it because you have the afternoon off work, but it's from a friend of yours - your best friend out of all the Alliance, in fact.

"Nafternoon, Cygnus," you answer the call with your communicator in one hand, the other one picking up the staple gun.

"Hello, Phaeton. Are you busy?" replies the TV-unit Cygnus (officially Fifty-Twenty-Two, nicknamed Cygnus by you because the digits '22' looked to you 'like two little swans').

"Yeah, I'm stapling expired packets of jam to a tree stump."

"…You know what? I'm not going to ask. Because you're clearly baiting me to."

"Yeah, fair enough, I totally was," you say, stapling another expired packet of jam to the tree stump.

"I can hear the staple-gun… are you actually stapling jam to a tree stump? I assumed you were just making shit up."

"I am actually stapling expired packets of jam to a tree stump," you confirm, stapling another packet of jam to the tree stump and hitting it with a hammer.

"…Well, I'm going to have to ask, aren't I? Dare I?"

"I gotta staple them down so they'll stay in place when I hit them with a hammer."

"And why are you hitting expired packets of jam with a hammer?"

"I'm not going to hit in-date packets of jam with a hammer, am I? That would be a waste of tasty jam. Tasty jam needs to get in my face."

"…Why are you hitting packets of jam with a hammer at all?"

"It's more fun than pulling them open or cutting them with scissors."

"So you want to get at the jam inside, but you don't want to eat it because it's expired. …No, I'm still confused."

"I'm placing jam on the tree stump as bait for beetles! I want to take photos of them because they are such gorgeous creatures. The hammer and staple gun is just a more fun way of doing that."

"…You could have just said you were setting up bait for photographing wildlife, instead of being deliberately and pointlessly convoluted."

"Yeah, I could've." You hit another jam packet with your hammer.

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What the greasy poop?

This is the AO3 blurb taken from one of my fanfics, with a variant of my username. (My AO3 name is Inskora, and I use the name Inskora Bournvadus on some places, but not Benjamin.) And the artwork I think is taken from someone's work on Wattpad.

I assume an AI scraped this together.

I suppose it's at least free, which means no-one is making money off other people's work (which is a copyright minefield when it comes to fan fiction.)

Edit: Oops, it's $2.99 on Amazon. I looked at the preview and it's definitely my fic. Also the AI gave it an age rating of 6-18, which, noooo (it's one of my explicit fics).