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gosh environmental lighting will be the death of me I feel like I have to trace every ray of light and perfect it all, but then I'm way too lazy to actually follow through

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screenshots from my big sad GLaDOS amv so you can see them now

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me and a friend have a running joke that glados never deleted caroline so she's just there saying things like "oh... oh you fumbled her hard..." and "maybe if you wanted her to love you you could have stopped trying to kill her" and glados is just so mad

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just because someone is your favorite character doesnt mean theyd have the same moral alignment as you. wheatley from portal wouldnt say "my pronouns are he/him, thank you for asking!" hed say "what uhh. what does that mean. um. you mean the nouns im most "pro" at is that what youre saying? i like to think im pretty pro,, at all nouns really. umm lets see... apple, kazoo, bubble, happy, door, umm... cake. not too fond of cake really i think its alright but. not my Favorite. if it were up to me though id eat a whole cake in one sitting. if i were a human. not a human, clearly. also not sure if id, know what cake even tastes like. if i tried it. no tastebuds. no Mouth... no. hole. anywhere on my body. haha um,, well anyways id. id say im pretty Pro Nouns. dont see why anyone wouldnt be... what? you mean what i Go By? what do you. ohhhh. ummm. the male ones. the male pronouns. if i can remember what they are... definitely the ones for guys. manly men. like me. pretty sure im a man,,," and you need to accept this

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Glabos getting a bath. With rubber duck. :)

hahaha same brain :]

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God I'm back in the building again

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the irresistible urge to make gijinkas of the funny robots after playing portal. chell and doug are also there cause i love them

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GLaDOS is literally the funniest character ever. Her arc culminates in her saying "I hate you so much it's not even worth the trouble of killing you, so just fucking LEAVE. And on your way out here's a full choir to sing 'Goodbye My Darling,' an Aria I wrote in Italian about how I love you and want you to be safe, which mentions you by name. Don't read into it. Get the fuck out. And here, something to remember me by: a box with a heart on it. Leave." to a woman who has literally never responded to anything she's ever said

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cave johnson: attention employees! it's pride month! rattmann: ...so, what rattmann: you want us to make gay science cave johnson: just make the robot gay or something, whatever rattmann: i'm sure this isn't going to backfire horribly

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Does Aperture Labs support gay/trans rights?? As a bie-enby test subject I sure hope so 🤭🤭

Cave Johnson here.

We here at Aperture Science support all members of the LGBT+. Whether part of our Control Group, a member of the Lab Boys, or a test subject of our renowned Portal gun, you are all worthy of rights and respect!

And whoever says otherwise can kiss my--

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I feel like he's one of those guys who you just imagine suddenly appeared in life fully formed, BUT randomly gives out the wildest lore.

Like he's just walking past an office in aperture when someone mentions they're going to Vegas for a wedding and he suddenly pops in and says that he's legally banned from Vegas because he couldn't stop winning in poker but they could never prove he cheated.

Or maybe he suddenly drops mid conversation that he technically worked for the mafia but didn't know it was the mafia until he tried to leave for another job.

He really screams "ive done a lot of random things in my life" to me.

For all we know he could have a law degree because of a weird technicality.

Does anyone have a Cave Johnson backstory they like? As much fun as it is to have Caroline to do some deductive character-building with, for some reason, I can't do the same thing with Cave. He's just so much. What COULD his life been like pre-Aperture? He could've crawled out of the mud like a goblin, suit jacket and all, and I'd believe it.

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Happy Pride Month, featuring your favourite Portal Lesbians!

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I see a lot of your art on Pinterest without credit. are you aware of this?

oh i've seen my arts on there too

well it'd be nice if they left the credit, but since pinterest is just a image sharing app and i always put my username in the corner of my arts anyway,

so i don’t really mind (i actually enjoy reading the comments on those posts sometimes too lol)

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sadistic doomed genius who's also insane in the head

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an underappreciated and imo pretty funny detail in portal 2 is how the prerecorded emergency guide just assumes that you're in some crazy post-apocalyptic distant future, and knowing that you've been in cryo sleep for "a long time" and seeing the whole building crumbling and growing plants from the ceiling and shit you start out the game probably thinking the same thing. but in reality we don't Know how much time has passed exactly, and once glados starts rebuilding it becomes pretty clear that all this deterioration is just due to lack of maintenance since her defeat and the reserve power outage that followed (and baby chell's potato experiment that went wild). and when you get back to the surface at the end of the game everything looks normal, at least around the area of the facility. it's literally just a big corn field.

so this implies that they added these prerecorded messages in the event of a power outage, but they couldn't think of ANY scenarios in which aperture would ever shut down or be abandoned that didn't involve an alien apocalypse or something. and yknow what that doesn't surprise me at all

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