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[sleepyheadnat]

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Guess who binge-watched Murder Drones? I diiiiid.

Ok, ok, I feel like talking about the show in a little more depth because a bunch of my dear mutuals are big fans of the show. I actually decided to watch it because of them—after seeing so much fanart reblogged or even made by them.

The TLDR of my opinion is: it's a cool show, I liked it. For the longer take, read on.

I'll start off with the bad so we can get it done quick and move on to the good. Because so many of my friends love this show, criticizing it in a place they probably will read is not fun (╥u╥). So here goes nothing:

The tonal whiplash was way too jarring and took me out of the experience constantly, especially in the first few episodes. To be fair, this was probably intentional. I think they were going for humor, but it kinda fell flat for me—I was too busy trying to rationalize how everyone in that universe is so nonchalant to their acquaintances dying brutal deaths in front of them (maybe they know it's okay as long as their heart is intact? or maybe I was not supposed to think too hard about it. that's probably it). This is more of a personal incompatibility, I think: the show's overreliance on violence and disturbing topics to create its humor ended up making me disturbed—not in the fun, intended way, but in a "this actually makes me uncomfortable" way. The whole scene with the baby cutting N open while N cheers them on is a good example of this.

Aside from that, the pacing felt a little too fast for me to keep up, and important information was presented in a way that was not very clear. For example: I did not even notice Tessa was not Tessa, but Cyn/The Solver masquerading as her; I only realized that because a comment under the video pointed it out. This might be a skill issue, but my poor brain could barely keep up with what was happening hahaha.

Ok, now on to the good stuff, because, despite all I pointed out, there is a lot to love about MD:

The cool factor in this show is off the charts. From the first few minutes of the very first episode, I was sold on that; the Disassembly Drones with their wings wide open, the glowing Xs on their faces, that was seriously cool (which is a feat in and on itself, considering their faces are essentially the XD emoticon). That segues nicely into my next point: the character designs (especially in the Disassembly and Solver Drones) are awesome. I love the usage of their screen-faces to show emoticons and images—that was such a fun detail that made the animation (which is really good by the way) all that more delightful to look at. Using it to show text was also very cool and led to some of the more memorable moments in the show.

The iconography is—no pun intended—iconic. From the Solver's symbol to Nori's choker, etc. Quotes like "Die mad", "Fight back" and "Golden Retrievers have gentle mouths" will be forever ingrained in my brain, I tell you.

The horror is very effective when it wants to be. Going back to the tonal whiplash, the show quickly desensitizes you to robot gore, but that makes the very rare human gore very effective. The first time I got to see (Cyn/The Solver using) Tessa's black and blue and bloody very human body, I was terrified. Also, Cyn/The Solver digging into N's chest while chanting "Let me in" over and over had no right being that disturbing.

The characters who are not just canon fodder are all developed well and are pretty likeable. Uzi is a surprisingly nice take on the teenager-archetype/stereotype, and was probably one of, if not the first time I managed to actually see my teen-self in one of these characters. Doll is my fave though. I legitimately thought she was just going to be a "Russians are hardcore" joke character, but no—my girl does so much. A lot of bad stuff she should not have done, also. And a lot of stuff I did not understand—going back to the pacing point I mentioned earlier. I'm already planning on rewatching the show to try and actually understand what happened hahaha.

Also, random P.S.: My interpretation is that Cyn's not the bad guy, just the first host to the Solver. That's what I hope at least hahaha—she was adorable, and I loved her dynamic with N.

Random P.P.S: Is it just me, was Cabin Fever kind of a nothing burger? Aside from establishing the changes in Uzi as she fully transforms into a Solver Drone, kinda nothing happens...?

[keplerspacecraftofficial]

electing to believe this is what griddlehark looks like to everyone else

[umblrspectrum]

3 years of this godforsaken show

[xxplastic-cubexx]

obligatory beach divorce doodling

bonus rough cover redraw of x-men #41 (1995) But Beach Divorce below cut

[yallstar]

alright here's my idea - an au where jayvik meet as kids, with viktor working for a street magician, rigging all the fake tricks behind the scenes, and jayce as a little magic fanboy 🪄✨

some thoughts on this au:

jayce has been obsessed with magic acts ever since his life was saved by a sorcerer. there's a new performer in town who can do tricks no one else can, and jayce in convinced he must be the real deal. one day he sneaks backstage in the hopes of finding evidence of real magic, but finds viktor instead, who he assumes must be the magician's apprentice!

viktor is torn because he doesn't want to ruin this kid's enthusiasm, or risk losing his job by revealing the truth. but he also... really doesn't want to be a wizard. so he comes clean. (lol)

jayce is a little bummed to find out it's not real, but when viktor shows him how the practical effects work, jayce becomes enchanted once more. they look so convincing!! technology that can replicate magic?? he thinks that's brilliant.

from then on viktor has a little tag-along at all of their shows, and jayce even starts calling himself viktor's apprentice. viktor's embarrassed, obviously, but also undeniably charmed. he and jayce become friends, him teaching jayce about engineering and jayce (trying to) teach him about the arcane.

they are earth shatteringly adorable the entire time 😔

[hinamie]

long way home

[pineapple-frenzy]

Book 2 au: sparring sessions and short hair katara

They like to have sparring sessions in order to keep their bending skills sharp. They allow themselves to go all out and not hold back at all cause they know if anyone got hurt, Katara could just heal them

But anyways, wouldn't it be kinda funny if Zuko accidentally burned Katara's hair tho? Aofkqldkkajfjd

The "I think we can save the hairloops" line is from @linnoya-writes thank you for that!! :>>

[emacrow]

The civilization trapped in an ice meteorite.

Superman, after saving the earth from another earth ending bomb, breeze through space, were glowing clouds of gas and dust known as a planetary nebula floated around aimlessly with glowing green dwarf particles as if a solar system was sucked into, but there only lays a sun and 7 planets here before before something caught his eye.

A pusling aimlessly floating ball like metorite full of frozen white ice with green dipped in the bottom in the middle of space. The pulsing glow flickers like a couple of very slow heartbeats.

Superman used his x ray vision to see inside, and what he saw immediately immediately griped the ice and speed flew over through back to the Watchtower which was not far from here.

Superman spoke in the coms of his oxygen mask to the Watchtower.

"Open the space entrance gates, and someone calls in Beatriz Da Costa. I found a floating town trapped in metorite ice with what seems civilians' insides." Superman spoke in the coms as he pushed the metorite carefully toward the watchtower, unaware of the gigantic glowing transparent being with 8 neon green eyes staring at him wrapped around the ice metorite like a Serpent to it's eggs.

[salemsclowncorner]

My thoughts on what I think would go on Virgil, Remus, And Janus' cake (click for quality):

If they actually end up getting a video and any of these are in there I shall jump for joy.

[bardspeak]

Here's the comic I made for War Never Changes, a Fallout charity zine that's still available to puchase digitally here: link.

The captions are lyrics from Autopsy Garland by the Mountain Goats. I've been dreaming of making this for literal Years, and the mods for the zine let me do it for them! I'm still pretty proud of it, and only regret that I completely forgot to replace Col. Hsu with General Lee Oliver in the final. Sorry man.

[touhouweed]

Can someone please help we need to get groceries and my job is only giving me one 3hr work day a week :x

Venmo: @monicore

Paypal: monikamaymoore@gmail.com

[microwavingfranky]

He should have been at the club 😭

[mexicanegbert]

some vague early earth c nonsense. i just wanted to write a siblings feeling chat and then i was inspired to draw some visuals for it. thanks for reading :P

[silverior968]

Nobody tell him

[Image ID: A digital 3-panel comic in vertical format, based on a meme from Parks & Recreation, but drawn with characters from Transformers Prime. The first panel has a messy drawing of Ratchet in front of a brown background, holding a vial of synthetic energon. The text reads "Could a depressed person make this?". The next panel has the same set-up, but with him scowling slightly, and text that reads "No." The last panel has no text, simply showing Optimus looking at him with a mix of fatigue, empathy and sadness. / End ID]

[booart5]

Thinking I'm gonna atry to do a Star Trek screenshot redraw a week as like,, a fun little exercise,, but we'll see how that goes,, if somebody has any screenshots they want me to consider then I'd love suggestions <3

Posted to Instagram March 12 2025

[lucabyte]

i feel like people are sleeping on the occam's razor situation of how buckwild it is to outright accuse a guy of being a clone of your friend even if you DO have a lot of circumstantial evidence. there's other options is what im saying. they could just be like. a guy. that's a sensible deduction. you should explore that deduction. ignore my shirt that reads I <3 RED HERRINGS.

i still think odile has the correct theory on lock but she's smart enough to know it needs like... a real smoking gun to be able to bring it up without sounding insane.

anyway. (mirabelle voice) i know its rude to speculate but has anyone else noticed the grieving? they seem to be grieving. does anyone have any thoughts on the grieving? i have some thoughts on the grieving.