#I JUST THINK IT WOULD BE FUNNY OKAY

[goldenachilles]

I know, I know the will of the gods and the absurdity of trying to bargain with the inevitable BUT, the line I could raise him as my own will not leave my mind so let me keep the mental image of Odysseus spending the entirety of the odyssey this musical trying to a) raise a child, b) keep his men alive and c) survive

[thefandomenchantress]

So the original ask/answer is deleted now, but in the most recent ask game the DRDTdev revealed that Ace used to have a friend named Taylor Riley, but for some reason, now they’re not friends anymore.

And while most people (reasonably) think that means they had a falling out, I think it would be really funny if it was actually: “yeah, they used to be friends…Now they’re more than that ;)”.

[boy-above]

headcanon ages for genshin characters with the little girl models cause i'm bored:

klee: 6

qiqi: 8 (physically)

nahida: 10 (physically)

diona: 12

sayu: 14

dori: like 35

[bacchuschucklefuck]

no more fan-ta-sizing about it! everything's already changed~

[christadeguchi]

you think YOU had a bad day at work?

bonus: sid shrieking "no!!!! NO!!!!!" loud enough to be heard in the stands and on camera

[verflares]

(pre-calam) filling the compendium :-)

+ closeup and the aftermath

[evermorepeyton]

god i absolutely love the idea of dan and phil being exes because that’s fucking insane like imagine buying a house with your ex like sure go ahead but who the fuck else is going to ever want to have a serious relationship with you bro?

like imagine you meet either of them and you go on a couple of dates and you like them a lot, and then you go to their house and there’s another random tall man living in it. you ask ummm who is this? “oh yeah that’s my ex, but he’s also my best friend, my soulmate, my ranch metaphor, my coworker, we’ve built a community on the internet really, and our names are so attached i can’t really stay away from him so we’ve bought this house and designed it to be half him half me because we have no intention to ever sell it so yeah…. we can still be together but i hope you know im still going to have to live here so that we can play the sims together and have our gay sims get married and have sex dressed as a peach and a hotdog in a public closet.”

you leave their house you go that was weird, you ghost them forever.

[ladeldee]

I just like the idea that once Missa hears Phil has another "kid" he'd try and do whatever he can to help and Phil feels emotions about it

[obsessedwithstarwars]

Question for the DP fandom:

Do you think Danny’s hair turns white when it falls out? It’s technically dead cells anyway but when it naturally falls off his head, do you think it turns white? Because I think it would be hilarious if his hairbrush just has white hair, no black strands whatsoever, and his significant other thought the worst until they know his secret.

[eggsdrawings]

the shared crush crisis

part two!!

[happypeachsludgeflower]

Concept: after Shang Qinghua lost his original draft, he said fuck it and wrote progressively worse and worse gibberish content for Proud Immortal Demon Way just to enjoy watching his favorite anti-fan, Peerless Cucumber, loose his shit.

[couch-house]

it is with a heavy heart i must announce the fankid-enjoyer has made another fankid 😔 this is comet... ive been playing with him for a while. he's a couple years younger than johnny jr and umm well I'll tell you more about him later. when i post the other pile of drawings i have of him.

[yashley]

imogen & fearne in c3e94

[shopcat]

i think in the hamster wheel of my mind a big part of where people go wrong with eddie and his shitty garage band as an extension is that they for some bizarre reason think he's gene simmons metal when he's jack black metal. heavy metal. he's tenacious d metal. he's school of rock. he's stoner lord of the rings metal he nearly wore blue jeans and plaid. jack black literally in real life once said eddie was the best character bc he's heavy metal like him. LOOK AT THIS

[scificrows]

Okay, my brain refuses to think about anything other than Murderbot, so I looked at every use of the word "friend[s]" in TMBD and... created some pie charts. Normal human activities.

Some Thoughts™ I had while putting this together (under the cut):

In All Systems Red, Murderbot notes that the PresAux crew are all close friends (twice! and goes on to explain their internal relationships which I think is very cute). This is pretty much the only use of 'friends' in ASR, except for when Murderbot says that SecUnits can't be friends with each other.

It seems that this may be one of the first times Murderbot has ever really been around a group of friends before? Murderbot notes that this is not the norm for its contracts and admits that the fact that they are all friends and the way they interact with each other make it actually enjoy that contract (before!!!! the hostile attack, so it already enjoys this contract before they start seeing it as a person etc ghghhhh). [Inference: Friendship seems enjoyable.]

The first character that calls Murderbot its friend is ART in Artificial Condition. Murderbot immediately refutes this (and then goes on to call ART its friend to its clients for the rest of the book). [Inference: Maybe ART is Murderbot's friend. And maybe that is... agreeable]

Rogue Protocol has more than twice as many instances of the word 'friend' as any of the other novellas. Why? Miki. Friendship and its implications for non-humans are a central theme because Miki is friends with everyone. Murderbot initially scoffs at the notion that Miki and Miki's humans are friends. At the end of the book, after witnessing how desperately Don Abene tried to stop Miki from trying to save them, and her grief after its death, Murderbot has to admit that she had in fact been Miki's friend. [Inference: Humans can be friends with bots and can sincerely care about them]

In Exit Strategy, Murderbot tentatively uses the word "friends" for its humans for the first time (several times actually). It questions whether it can actually call them its friends or not and later realizes that it had been afraid what admitting that the humans are its friends would do to it. At the end of the book, Mensah tells Murderbot the PresAux crew are its friends, which is the first time a human has directly said that to it (at least on-page). [Inference: Humans can and want to be Murderbot's friends]

In Network Effect, Murderbot seems to be more habituated to the word 'friend', confidently calling ART and Ratthi its friends, like it is no longer just trying the concept on unsure if it fits. There are many instances in which other characters refer to MB as ART's friend or the other way around and Murderbot's humans refer to Murderbot as their friend several times. Generally, there seems to be less hesitancy, because yes, all of them are Murderbot's friends, why wouldn't they be. [Inference: SecUnits can have friends. This SecUnit has friends. They care about it a lot.]

Conclusion: The Murderbot Diaries tell the story of a construct that does not seem to consider the possibility of friendship for itself and is fine with that - until it accidentally starts caring a little too much and suddenly more and more people annex it as a friend (ew) to the point where it can no longer deny that this is happening and has to begrudgingly admit that yes, it has friends now and maybe that is actually not a bad thing.

[unexpectedbrickattack]

short king and his shorter kings