#💘 Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

[malewifehenrycooldown]

I was going to write up a post about my ship with Android 18 but then realised I had to explain the whole 'But what about Krillin?!' question. So here's a meme I quickly put together to demonstrate how the ship works.

[dandeeliion]

3, 6, 24 !!

kris my love!!! 💖💘💞💛💛🧡

ooooh top 5 books…this one is tricky but in no particular order:

1) the sparrow by mary doria russell!! fantastic mix of science and religion and has me in a mental tailspin, but also such a wonderful and unconventional family that you grow to love

2) the queen’s thief series ! by megan whalen turner UGH the most amazing characters and mythology and story with never ending hidden details

3) honeybee by naomi shihab nye - amazing poetry anthology, and i love how she writes

4) the lathe of heaven by ursula le guin ! this was the first book of hers i read and it was spectacular

5) either autobiography of red by anne carson or do androids dream of electric sheep by phillip k. dick !

as for things i meant to read, but never got to…the automobile club of egypt ! my library hold expired :( also little weirds by jenny slate. and i only didn’t finish the seven husbands of evelyn hugo because i didn’t like the writing style like two pages in lolol and a spanish copy of dr. jekyll y mr hyde because i forgot it when i went to school

book asks

[filmnoirsbian]

Have you ever watched the anime Psycho-Pass? It’s pretty dark but you might like it because it draws a lot from literature and in particular ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep’ and there’s a really good depiction of an equal relationship between the two leads that can be read as platonic or romantic along with questions about humanity

I have not! But i do love do androids dream, so thank u for the recommendation 💘

[malewifehenrycooldown]

other small facts about db self insert, ripley ellery

ripley ellery is her full name, but raptor ripley is a catchy nickname for her coined by yamcha. they don't really call her raptor unless pulling a joke or prank on her - she doesn't take it super seriously.

since having dinosaur dna (specifically a utahraptor), it means she has a combination of fur/feathers and scales. (dinosaurs don't really have feathers, it was more akin to fur but soft like feathers. at least that's the current scientific assessment).

power level scaling is on the same level as android 18 and 17. she's not a super saiyan so she can't really get to that level. however her partial dragon forms do give her a boost on par with a super saiyan. the full dragon form however does rival ultra instinct's power level, but it does have a limit. The longer she stays in her full dragon form, she'll become more exhausted because she's literally carrying extra body mass - we're talking kaiju size. so like. she cannot stay in that form for more than 24 hours.

UHHHH she can also turn into a utah raptor. if you've seen the size comparison with a human, you can understand why she likes being in this form. it's a great surprise weapon against her enemies.

being dr. gero's subject means that she did witness the beginning of the android program he was creating. this also means that cell witnessed her creation too. he calls her the most 'imperfect' subject during the Cell Saga.

there's a specific character quirk of hers that's really interested in sound systems, radios etc. not sure why she's interested but the technology fascinates her. (unrelated but i have thought of an au where she's a member of a punk band.)

maijinn buu saga - she fuses with android 18 as a backup plan, creating ripley 18. I haven't figured out the finer details just yet but let's just say at one point krillin isn't super sure that sending children in to fight maijinn buu is a good idea (lets be honest it's not).

during the later saiyan saga, ripley and vegeta clash and the prince is genuinely surprised that a mere human is keeping up with him in a fight. like its clear to him something is VERY wrong with ripley, but and does compliment her combat prowess (in his own vegeta way) by saying she's just like the many saiyan warrior women he knew growing up.

before anyone asks, yes, she does get involved in wrestling thanks to Mr. Satan after the Cell Saga. When he saw her, he immediately thought: "she'd be a FANTASTIC talent in the ring!". she takes to the profession very easily.

Ripley enters the Tournament (you know the one that kicks off the Maijinn Buu-Supreme Kai saga, yeah that one) - Ripley picks up on the fact that Goten and Trunks really want to enter the Tournament that is absolutely NOT FOR CHILDREN (there's a children's branch and an adult's branch of the tournament) - and so she decides to foil their plans - because she genuinely fears their possible deaths and oh boy she really does not like the idea of dealing with an angry ChiChi and Bulma - so she purposefully sabotages them so that she instead ends up in the final match with Android 18.

Before anyone asks - she throws the final match with Android 18 - who is absolutely pissed at this but Ripley's like 'hey do it for Marron, make her proud dear.' This ironically inspires 18 the throw the match with Mr. Satan since he's really just a wrestler - not an actual fighter.

This is a current visual idea of what Ripley Ellery looks like.

[picrew here]