#Queries Answered

[bloodandaluminum]

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Oh really? That's fascinating. I hope we'll be able to discuss this further. Maybe at the annual Conference on Absence and Nothingness?

[yourpastafarianpriest]

the giant rainbow colored trampoline

Absolutely I will bounce on that that sounds so fun

[yuriartillery]

isn't "yuri artillery" kinda a redundant phrase?

the repetition is for emphasis. let it not be said that i do not make my convictions clear

[thebibliosphere]

Not to be an unbearable plot tease, but I'm editing/rewriting a chapter from Hunger Pangs book 2, and while I adore all of my characters equally, Vlad and Ursula getting to know each other properly might actually be some of my favorite moments.

His realization that he can pester Ursula to tell him more about random historical events as they actually happened, not how they are portrayed in history books, is so, so sweet. He's like an excited labrador who just found a dinosaur bone.

Ursula's very much not used to this kind of attention.

She's used to people only being interested in her power. And here's a werewolf who couldn't give less of a fuck about exploiting her magic for his own gain, and a vampire who wants to ask her what textile production was like circa the fall of the Ecrecian Empire.

[mirroredmasquerader]

Good evening, tumblr-dot-com. You should all be informed that I have shown up to a party approximately four-five years postmortem and I am struggling to be normal about it.

Anyways here's some space pirates because I have now drawn them each at least once in the Simplified Style.

Don't pay attention to why everything is markedly different in quality, this is normal. And also I am scrabbling desperately for accurate impressions of characters and their dynamics please be nice

Oh yeah and here's a secret, bonus Gunpowder Tim from the same sketchbook page as the Nastya because I can assure you everything on that page has a similar tone (I was having a time)

[azadrithaanatheme]

Is Wormzi a thing in CC? If so, how’d N and V take it?

Oh, Wormzi is absolutely going to be a thing - it isn't called "The Crawling Chaos" just for the Lovecraft reference ;)

It's not going to be just Uzi either - there's going to be so many worms in here. Worms for days.

As for how everyone reacts:

At the start of the story (which picks up about three-ish months after the show, for context), the Dapper Trio all know that Uzi has been having corporeal instability issues, and have been trying to help her work through it/figure out what's causing them and how to stop it (Uzi discovering the inefficiencies in N and V's designs and deciding to do something about it is an outgrowth of this). Critically though, no one knows Uzi can become a worm yet, including Uzi herself - she suspects she can do that, but isn't really keen on testing those boundaries and is mostly just trying to figure out why she randomly glitches out and explodes into a cluster of crab claws and peering camera eyes sometimes.

Then some Shenanigans happen and it becomes pretty clear that she's going to need to start testing those boundaries in order to get a handle on her new robo-divinity and prevent said shenanigans from happening again. It's all very "repression is not the solution you think it is."

N takes this in stride pretty much instantly - this is just another aspect of Uzi's eldritch space magic, and come android hell or high water, they're going to figure it out together. Boy is nothing if not committed. Plus, well... he'd be lying if he said he didn't think Uzi having the power to turn into an eldritch centipedal machine god was kind of hot.

After all: we are, as a fandom, united by the sacred wisdom that N would still love Uzi if she was a worm (and vice versa).

V, in contrast, is more paranoid. She's terrified that something will go wrong and either the Solver remnant/ghost/thing in Uzi's mind will take over, or worse, in trying to contain that remnant, Uzi will go somewhere she can't come back from and become something even worse than the original Absolute Solver (an Uzi without any morals, driven by nothing but all-consuming hunger - terrifying). But, critically, as difficult as it is for her V's actually going try to voice her concerns this time instead of trying to gaslight gatekeep girlboss her way through things. She's let herself be ruled by her fear before, and it emphatically did not end well, and she's learned from that. She cares about these goobers more than she'll ever admit trusts N and Uzi, and she's going to stick with them and help out in her own way. And probably complain about it when they do something dumb or remind Uzi to eat again - but hey, someone has to be the sensible one in this polycule found family. If nothing else, she can keep Uzi from trying to experiment with eldritch monster transformations inside the bunker.

Uzi, for her part, agrees with V's paranoia (now that V is actually trying to explain herself). As rad as having a thousand extra arms and a bunch of holoprojector eyes can be, this is something she really would rather have left in a box and not touched ever. Unfortunately, she can't just leave it in a box, and Uzi "Godeater" Doorman isn't one to back down from a challenge. She's been presented with a new problem, and she's going to solve it, one way or another.

Plus, there's a surprising number of fringe benefits: among other things, it turns out eldritch machine god is actually surprisingly comfortable to sleep on (if you're a robot, anyway).

[mephone-1]

//ooc heyyyy who are you in out of character :3

Lucky approaches 1, politely standing across the room.

"Uhm... hey. Cobs told me to check on you. You doing alright?"

@luckygetshired //

(ooc: you can just call me meep… i’m the ii meeple confessions guy… I don’t share my main unless we get close and you ask for it cause i’m kinda uncomfy with it 💔💔💔💔 but hiii helloo (I use he/they btw). Also lets just say that 1 is in. Some random room in meeple now. I don’t think it’s really important)

Oh. Hello there. I am doing alright.

I am. Curious. However. Why did Mr. Cobs ask you to check up on me? I do not believe I am experiencing any issues, hardware or software-wise.

[gomzdrawfr]

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[wormchamp72]

jeff the killer 2 releases soon

Jeff the Killer 2? I have many questions. Is it written by the same author as the 2011 version (the only version I accept as canon)? Is it a continuation of the 2011 version?

I find it hard 2 believe that a sequel could effectively capture the magic and depth of the original JTK---dare I say it is hubris 2 even try---but I await the release eagerly nonetheless.

[bloodandaluminum]

Are you free to have a conversation?

-Mirana

I am. What is it?

[distinguishedscientist]

drunk herbert, what do you like about dan most?

His inflection… it’s almost so poetic the way the words fall off his tongue and glide down his body to accent all of the choices he’s made for his appearance.

His stupid sweaters, the way he decorates, everything about him is so unintentionally intentional and it drives me crazy. It’s all so… different in the way that it all meshes together like a blanket made by someone’s grandmother. He’s so perfectly sewn together, intimately stitched together by mother nature, perfectly intertwined with everything. He’s perfect. And I hate that about him. He has his shortcomings but it will all end up tying together in the knots in my stomach whenever he puts his hand on my shoulder in the lab. I do not believe in a god, but I believe that there was something out there, perhaps a shattered star, broken apart just to send that man down to earth.

[yuriartillery]

Oh princess what is your preferred use for captives?

I have been advised that my original answer of "recreation for the enlisted" casts my command in something of a distasteful light, although I cannot grasp why.

[sipthegossip-if]

will we be able to be mainly oblivious to romantic advances but still further the romance route?

That's possible buuuuut only with Alexis. (And Arlo (somewhat)) They have a special romance route (which will be included in their character profile) "Idiots in love" where basically everyone but the mc and alex are aware of their feelings lol. Its a comical trope I have always loved in sitcoms aha.

other ros like Kai, river and vic would mistake mc's obliviousness for disinterest, so it wouldn't work out. Shay would find it cute in the beginning but get bored later.

[venusinmyrrh]

Care to effuse about The Menu?

Yes. Yes I would.

The Menu is underrated because of its incredible specificity. It's gained a reputation as an "eat the rich" movie, but it's not that at all! It's about the ways that rich people literally consume people's work with blithe entitlement— after all, they're the one's paying for it, aren't they? What does it matter that they don't even remember what they ate? What's it to the cooks, who poured all that time and effort and art into it? Why should they care? They're getting paid for it, aren't they?

The Menu is specifically about the experience of creating art for a living, especially for a wealthy clientele who have no taste of their own and just want whatever's hot at the moment. It's about the soul-crushing grind of keeping the forge going long after the fire's burned out, because they're still hungry, and you've got a living to make.

And they'll never be satisfied, because the wealthy lead lives of consumption without appreciation. They will take your work that you sweated over, that took years to perfect, and they will swallow it whole without even savoring it on the way down, and then they will demand something new to amuse them, something fresh for their Instagram stories, more content to feed the machine. Eventually, it just starts to suck. You become more and more divorced from what you love about your art, and the things you make become brittle and lifeless.

(And the kicker is, can the customers even tell your work sucks? Can you tell that it sucks? Do you even care? No! Because you're burnt out and they have no taste. It's not an accident that all the best metaphors for the characters and themes in this restaurant movie have to do with eating.)

Nowhere is this more clear than in the guests' actual interactions with Chef Julian. You will notice that as much as the diners in The Menu may or may not be impressed by him, they treat him with very little respect: they flout the house rules by taking pictures of the food, they nitpick flaws in dishes they could never make themselves, and they cannot name a single thing he has ever made for them. His sole job, in their eyes, is to provide them with a status boost, something they can brag about when they get back to their friends; the actual experience is negligible.

Is that not maddening? Especially to a man like Chef Julian, who is so detail-oriented that he precisely calculated each portion size based on digestion? That fish, the one his repeat customers don't even remember eating, must have been specifically chosen, even had the dish built around it, so no other would do. Chef Julian is right when he says that these people represent the ruin of his art— why bother putting love and care into your work when it gets horked down some greedy asshole's throat just the same?

The joy of watching Ralph Fiennes' performance as Chef Julian is watching him assert his power as, essentially, the god-king of Hawthorn. The guests came to his restaurant full of their own importance: food critic, actor, repeat patron, major investor, etc. They have given him the money and influence to get where he is, and they think that means he owes them... but he is the chef. They are at the mercy of what he gives them. They will jump when he claps; they will run and hide when he tells them to; they will take what they're given and they will like it. He is the one whose work, whose vision, whose reputation Hawthorn is built on, and he spends the entire night demonstrating that he cannot be owned (and drowning at least one person who tried).

It's ironic that Hawthorn's cuisine is so specifically tied to the island the place is built on— everything local, everything grown on-site or fished out of the ocean. It allows the clientele to feel eco-friendly, aligned with and respectful of nature, when in fact they treat Chef Julian and his staff the way they treat their assistants and their escorts and the subjects of their reviews: like an oil well, to be used and drilled and extracted and exhausted until completely empty.

It's significant that this final menu is not just a Chef Julian project; it's a collaboration among everyone in the kitchen. Multiple other cooks have contributed courses, so we know he's not making them do this— they've all been put through the same professional meat grinder, and they've all come out with their spirits and their sanity hacked to bits. Those rich assholes, through their commodification and entitlement and cruelty and disrespect, have drained the passion from this entire team... and it is so satisfying to watch them gasp and squirm and rage, only to realize that all the money and influence in the world won't save them when the thing they've been consuming decides to bite back.

TL;DR: The Menu is not about eating the rich. The rich are the ones doing the eating: of people's energy, labor, hopes, dreams, blood, sweat, and tears. The Menu is about making them choke on it.

[mephone-1]

She just... looks at him.

//ooc goes FERAL @luckygetshired

...You've looked like you've seen a ghost.