#constructs

[godshaped]

Destiny 命运; Hand in Hand 牵手

Oil on canvas, 2019, by Pang Maokun

[askteathling]

I felt so bad throwing a pot even close to one and it got scared, they’re so cute.

(I see people like this if you want more @Teathling on twitter or twitch.tv/teathling)

[randomencounters]

Encounter: the Embalming Chemical Man

"I'll Be See'in You Soon," he says, seemingly unaware this is not something anyone wants to hear from an embalming fluid Alchemy Golem

[charbies]

Linktober day 8 - constructs

[jullbnt]

Linktober 2023 – Day 8. Constructs

I hate these guys they've destroyed me so many times 😆

It's pretty obvious these designs are quite complex but drawing them makes you realize just how much thought went into it. Impressive stuff!

(Pretty hard to find a clear reference though)

Previous (Day 7. Sky Islands) | Next (Day 9. Deity)

Linktober 2023 Masterlist

Linktober 2023 Tears of the Kingdom

[zeldaseyebrows]

Waiting

Day 8: Construct

(Guess what Van Gogh painting inspired this one)

[madcat-world]

Rhizome - Sergei Demidov

[cooking-with-hailstones]

This meme came to me in a vision please enjoy

[randomitemdrop]

Item: Vulgar the Robot, an advanced automaton constructed as an experiment in Artificial Crassness. When activated it lowers the local Decorum, making it more difficult for uptight characters to succeed on checks on Concentration, Will, &c.

[artbyifer]

Murderbot for nerdyjellyfish for Solstice Informal Holiday Treats 2022

Can also be found here

[basuracake]

Animatic of Obby and Log from the

@_Unexpectables_ campaign one

[da0sart]

Constructs are genuinely so cute, they'd make good companions

[loveerran]

There are LDS folks who believe a) all Spirit Children of our Heavenly Parents are binary male or female, and b) everyone's assigned sex at birth matches their Spirit's eternal gender. Since LDS theology holds that our underlying Spirit is part of an eternal existence that has no beginning or end, the binary gender view is particularly significant.

However, consider that there are times sex at birth is assigned incorrectly or cannot be determined:

Perhaps 100 billion humans have lived. If only .02% have had ambiguous/divergent genital/chromosomal presentation, we're discussing 20 million individuals, up to 2 million of whom are alive today. At broader definitions of intersex, that number is more than 100 million persons alive today - about the same percentage as people born with red hair.

Use whatever criteria you want to determine whether a body is male or female, somewhere there will be an individual who rides the line between male and female such that you cannot determine which side of the line they fall on. No matter who defines the criteria, or what those criteria are, there comes a point where we just can't tell.

Which Spirit does God put in that body? What if, under given criteria, the body is 60% male/40% female outside and 60% female/40% male inside? What Spirit is sent to the body then?

We don't have to go far to find cases that raise questions. Castor Semenya was born, raised and competed as a woman her entire life, until it was discovered she was XY (and she still competed as a woman some after that). Other cases, like a 33 yr old man with a uterus, ovaries and XX chromosomes internally, but full outward male genitalia, or an XY woman who never got her period, are mentioned relatively frequently in medical literature and the news. Development factors, natural and artificial, further complicate gender and sex identity. We're still learning about neurological differences outside of typically identified intersex characteristics.

If someone who is reproductively female spends their entire life as a man, what Spirit did God send to that body? Because somewhere, somewhen, this has happened and it may be more often than you think.

Since we cannot make a blanket statement about the gender of Spirits matching assigned sex at birth, let's be more careful about what we say. The truth is we don't always know. The gospel is about ministering to the one, and somewhere that one is listening to you. Be kind to them. Tell them the truth, even if that truth is 'we don't know all the answers for everyone' (LDS Handbook 38.7.7). There is goodness and power in admitting to not knowing everything and in pleading with the Lord for further light and knowledge. Such honesty may give us less to repent of later.

[randomencounters]

A Victorian King and Match-Seller, each with a lobster collar for a face. (Source: Godey's Lady's Book, 1867)

Encounter: pile of animal parts animated into a peddler of goods

[gavamont]

Found out some fuckers are out there making robots with actual computers in the middle. So fucked up. I thought we all agreed there’s an outer layer, maybe one or two layers of computer chips and circuit boards beneath that for appearance, but then under that it is just magic.

But some people are out there doing it the hard way because they say “I can’t learn magic” or “magic isn’t real” or “I like how mine have never gained consciousness and tried to strangle me in my sleep so they can wear my face and replace me”.

Cowards and dipshits. Learn some real skills and learn to have fun.

[rapid-artwork]

Don’t remember if I ever posted these or not.

I have been revisting my old story concept The Genesis Gauntlet.

A story about a guy who gains the ability to turn inanimate objects into sentient warriors, and the really gory battles that occurs when monsters made from inanimate objects come to kill him and his new found family.

It’s basically just a super intense excuse for gijnka and a lot of lovable characters who all die horribly. It’s a ton of fun.

Let me know if you’d want to see more.