#and its been... bad tbh

[moeblob]

Lil warm up doodle because I'd been playing some Thropes and then watched some dubbed DunMeshi and am a Damien Haas enjoyer so. Enjoy a Shez.

[tommygotwrittenoff]

i literally do not care about big emergencies on abc's 911. i want to see my characters talk to each other and have stories that are parallels to small, everyday (everyday for first responders) emergencies

[fingolfinwiththesteelchair]

It is a beautiful day, and you are a horrible research transport vessel. Things are progressing as normal (i.e. it's boring) when a SecUnit pings you, lies right to your metaphorical face, and then tries to bribe you with human media to give it a ride. This is as unexpected as it is unprecedented, and the sheer nerve of it is really to be admired. There's no protocol to this, so what should you do?

Now, this is against a bunch of rules, and could be dangerous if you weren't so impressive and incredible, and you're technically an employee (and can probably rewrite the Univeristy charter at will (until someone notices and puts it back)) so those rules are for other entities.

So, what you should do is allow the rogue SecUnit with a broken governor module and a sketchy story aboard. If you check the files it dumps and find zero (0) malware (which is confusing), and it doesn't even try to trash the place or lay in wait to ambush a crew member, then you've got a good candidate!

Next, what you're going to want to do is absolutely nothing. Just watch it patrol your halls until it's time to leave. Continue staring at it while you're undergoing embarkment procedures. Maybe analyze it a little (you've got plenty of processing power to spare) when it finally sits down and starts watching media. Allow it to settle in and get comfortable while you stare at it and get further and further from port.

Now that you two are alone (intimacy is key!) and you've determined that watching media is all the SecUnit is going to do, it's time to make contact! Make sure to open by telling it it's only survived due to dumb luck, and letting it know you could melt its brain into putty. This starter will work to develop conversation naturally and smoothly, just like you've seen the humans do, and it will be smooth sailing from there!

This has been Perihelion's guide to making friends/finding life partners/fuck off Holism I had to work hard for this find your own

[neon-psychopomp]

Could you pretty please draw my darlings Martha or Clara?

These two having a much needed cocktail and sharing their adventures :D Thank you so much for the request <3

Kofi | Inprnt | Cara | Bluesky

[jessenitrogen]

bruh

og image under cut

[negativespace06]

N to start off the new year!

[nitewcat]

What's forgiven for players on lower hearts and what's not for those on higher is so interesting to consider when looking at lifesteal. Everyone's a hypocrite, and there's really nothing wrong with that, but it's so interesting to see the extent to which this hypocrisy spreads and no one seems to notice. I feel like it's always been particularly obvious with Zam, and because I'm mainly a zam watcher, I'll kinda be yapping from his pov.

Off the top of my head is Focus. Betrayed the entire server, blew up spawn, all for material items, hearts. They literally made up an excuse for the betrayal AFTER being asked to betray its hallarious and it's in Manes video so people should know about it yet the only people willing to exact revenge on them for this are low heart players. Kab, bacon, etc. For everyone else, it's looked down on. When the empire killed them, people looked down on them, it's SQUIDDO. After all, killing them is easy. Who cares if they're on twenty hearts or not. Who cares if every single one of their actions during their alliance was cruel and manipulative. Zam refuses to kill FOCUS, sees it as something he simply can't do. Why? Because they're weaker than him.

And zam. When Mane, Flame, and Wemmbu blow up spawn to get their fights, he ends up basically going against his oath. And ironically, mane and flame specifically barely ever fight low heart players after reaching 20 hearts, instead tending to toy with them more than anything. Mane especially. Flame returning an eye for an eye often. Focus betrays Zam and helps the people blowing up spawn, yet he can't bring himself to harm any of them. 4c is an odd case, but Zam isn't fully aware of that fact. Zam only fights back against those stronger than him. The reason is pretty obvious, all gay joker did was terrorise everyone, and because of his skill level, most of his victims were lower heart players. And zam, trying to distance himself from that person, can't bring himself to kill. Can't exert his power over weaker players as he did when he was gay joker because he's trying to move on from that person.

Then Mapicc. Every single action he takes is crtisized, whether it be by the viewers or other players, and it's lowkey insane. This can be attributed to most of the players on the server being relatively new, so they just don't understand him and most of his loudest viewers being mane and flame viewers. But Mapicc constantly fighting to protect his team and often the weaker players on the server and even spawn itself but eveytime, it's because he wants hearts, he wants power, he's being petty and cruel. On Bacon's recent livestreams while rebuilding spawn, he clarifies himself that the whole mawn thing WAS because he cared about spawn and how it looked. Looking back in older videos, he's constantly protecting the more innocent players. When Wemmbu jumped and killed bacon during the building of qdd, Mapicc was already there, circling him before potting up and demanding the heart back, but it's easy enough to assume it was for the heart. That's all. And always sticking those fights out, the amount of honour he holds, taking the death when it would be so easy to run. Even when he loses. He's always bitter about them, and he's a sore loser, but he still takes the losses. Mapicc is mischatachterised a lot, and it's sometimes simply because he's one of the stronger players on the server.

Squiddos also mischarachterized often because they are a weaker player. Like give bro some credit they did betray that team for hearts and they would do it again. All of their lifestelal videos but s5 finale have been in relation to mischievous heart stealing activity's on the smp.

Even when looking at Mane, Flame and Wemmbus treatment of Zam. It's let slide because he's strong enough to get back on his feet and fight again. Because maybe after he tries a couple 100 times he'll get a singular kill on them and have a conclusion to his video. But weaker players like Cube? They'd be made fun of for doing anything against him. Even against Zam they face criticism, with Zam constantly taunting them because zam shit talking when he's loosing a fight is his biggest strength. When something is acceptable or not completely depends on the strength of the players.

I feel like an exception to this tends to be baconwaffles. Always on low hearts, but whenever someone kills him, it's simply not looked down upon because it's bacon. He probably deserved it.

But lifesteals about hearts and everyone keeps talking morals and then there's rek. Strong enough to stay alive against the better pvpers but weak enough that a kill on a chungus isn't criticised. Something reks been quoting often is that "it's lifestelal." Nonchalant. That's how it is. You can't be bitter if I kill you, and I can't be bitter if I die. He has the same treatment towards weaker players and strong players. He sees injustice when it's there, but ultimately, "it's lifesteal." He doesn't get involved.

Maybe it's just for stronger players to be criticised for killing weaker players. And weaker players will be praised for succeeding in killing a better player, even if they succeed through dishonorable means. Even if the stronger player is honourable. Maybe being a centrist is better. Lifesteal is lifeateal. There is no place for honour and morals amongst weaker players. Yet with stronger players, it's sometimes just not a good video for them to be constantly beating the weaker players. They need to back off.

Then there's the videos produced. The power imbalances on the server. What makes lifesteal, lifesteal? Every time you kill someone, you steal one of their hearts. So it's pvp. Figthing for what you believe in. What if you can't fight at all? What if you don't want to fight? You can't fight? You trap, you scam, you build for hearts, you leave the server? You don't want to fight? You learn why you have to. There can never be peace on lifesteal. And that means there will always be injustice on lifesteal. Lifesteal isn't fair, and some people crash out about it, and others train and rise to the top, and others try to change it and fail. Content keeps the server fair and gives stronger players an incentive to have morals even simply for the sake of the end of a friends video. In many ways, content keeps lifesteal balanced enough for people to enjoy playing. Maybe hypocrisy in relation to stronger players doesn't matter because they're the winners on this server. They dont need to try to stay rich.

For sake of balance on lifesteal, in a way, the hypocrisy is a key part of keeping the server functional.

[auuwmk]

HAPPY YAOI DAY

only real ones know my yuri day one

[bacchuschucklefuck]

species medley ft. gorgug and riz

[beaulesbian]

how it feels playing da4 tbh

[valfeathers]

happy birthday worstie <3

[fossilizedhysterics]

guess who finished tlok tonight and immediately had this come to him in a vision!!!!

[piecesofchess]

Tartarus is still a little broken and that's Fun !

[reel-fear]

Honestly the funniest thing abt Don't Starve lore is just that Wagstaff made a robot born from someone's death, full of trauma upon having several out of body experiences that started crashing out and then threw it into the nightmare hell word and somehow didn't expect it to become the most bitter evil angry person ever. If my only exposure to humans was Wagstaff honestly I would've turned out worse we're lucky WX hasn't strangled their fellow survivors in their sleep yet.

As far as I know we don't really know when WX became truly evil and honestly I think it would be very interesting to imply idk, being mauled by hounds and tossed around in an uncaring unforgiving world for years with some canon evidence even suggesting they don't remember too much of life before the constant, might've been why they turned out. Like that. Esp I think it says everything WX can confront Wagstaff stare him down but Wagstaff just avoids their gaze, one of these people is guilty [and knows it too] the other is not.

Also Wagstaff's quote for the nightmare throne implying he meant for WX to die in there ='].

WX feeling the need to tell a Wagstaff inspired machine she's better than her creators, telling another to never trust Wagstaff. I think it screams yet another thing Wagstaff tossed the second it became clear it wasn't doing exactly what he wanted [as WX says about some of his machines discarded like trash] rather than him saving the world from an evil robot born evil.

Also makes for an amazing Frankenstein comparison, make life, don't give it a name, be horrified when it has emotional problems, dump it in the woods, oops it came back- [I know that's not exactly what happened but y'know]

[dxxtruction]

Louis' "You're boring!" Could mean so many things, but I think what's most apparent about that line is that Armand takes no initiative just for himself. He's not really anybody, because he never goes out and finds himself or gets attached to anyone but Louis. Without Louis as his guide he's literally just sitting on a couch picking lint! That's the thing.

He orbits constantly around what would make Louis happy, and never really fully going what would make me happy? Ultimately that drive to please Louis is what drives him to torturing Daniel, not so much that he'd care to just do it. Ultimately, not giving proper care to Louis is just a way to make sure Louis knows he has to orbit around him as well, with shoving Lestat onto him just that other nail on the coffin. So, even if he fails to figure out how to make Louis happy with him, he still knows what Armand is good for, and better than.

That dependency is what drives Armand's abuse. It really just comes down to that. Armand doesn't even realize how suffocated he is by his own dependency. This is just how life is to him. (It shouldn't be lost either that dependency is a theme considering this episode also deals with addiction).

Daniel's fascinating because he's just so driven to be somebody. He's largely independent, he seeks things because he wants them. It's his drug to poke and prod at all the things that he shouldn't. Daniel's exciting because he lets Louis in to something different, lets him in to all this potential in another person that he can also do the same with for himself. It's a real connection. A two way street. It's easy to tell how Armand can be smothering then because he's never introducing him to anything really new, and most the ways both of them connect are all painful and traumatic. It's never just fun because there's always that layer of that pain. Fun died with Claudia.

50 years on they've gotten to a lot better place, both of them, but it's still that same shit. No seriously, "How is this any different from last time, Louis?"

Well... Because Armand's going to be, at the very least, making one [1] decision only for himself - and that's to hold power over Daniel's life. Fucking sick foreshadowing.

They aren't driving each other to the brink anymore but "The vampire is bored" STILL. Maybe it's even worse, despite being in better places, because Louis' sort of just been defeated by it. (I mean, can he even really leave this either?). He's accepting the dependancy cause he kind of has to. He'd literally ended up letting all the enjoyment be up where he can't reach [The book shelves]. Armand so desperately wants Louis happiness but what really ends up happening is that Louis ends up having to give Armand all his own. He's got no one or anything else to get it from. But like an iPad and an over the top eating ritual. Two extremes of what's just more lint picking.

This whole relationship is one I find just tragic inside and out. You have to just pity it, really. There's ways in which you can find yourself feeling bad for both of them. But you can only really be mad at Armand for any of it. Armand, who isn't even 'free' in any sense, having so little concept of his own independence, but is at the same time so controlling over other's. It's a tragic cycle. It's an infuriating one.

Louis at least has the mind to know when enough is enough. If just needing that extra push to get there. Armand's too scared of it being over to even try.

[meamiki]

5% of a color headcanon.... two versions since b&w emphasizes the dagger more i think but i still like the warm tones ASFSADA

i am not biased towards rainbow daggers whatsoever i promise (lie)

((also friend is streaming now and im there too!! bit more info linked here, its rated mature tho))