#couldn't NOT share them lol

[expelliarmus]

[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.

[wikiangela]

seven sentence sunday

I wasn't gonna post anything from this one bc it's so close to being done I might just post it within a day or two (no promises tho lol) but I'm loving it so much and I can't resist posting a snippet haha

so here's a bit of my 7x06 tommy's pov fic!

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(...) “my sister finally married the love of her life,” a kiss to Tommy’s chin, then another, and one more, and Tommy laughs again. “And I,” Evan grins against Tommy’s lips as he kisses him again, “I have a really hot date to her wedding.”

“Yeah, straight out of a fire.” Tommy smirks and bumps their noses together, and Evan laughs, Tommy drinking in the adorable sound. It all feels- it feels intimate, familiar, more than it should be at this stage.

“Mhm, even hotter now.” he leaves one more kiss on Tommy’s lips. “And I’m just- I’m really happy you’re here, Tommy.” Evan pulls away, this time enough to look into Tommy’s eyes, his own shining excitedly, face softening, as he whispers, with something like awe in his voice, “You made it.”

“Of course.” Tommy answers earnestly, feeling a fond smile pull at his own lips, his chest swelling at the look Evan gives him, something so affectionate and wonderstruck – he doesn’t think anyone has ever looked at him like this. It could be overwhelming, if he didn’t feel the exact same way. “We had a date.”

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[captainhysunstuff]

19 more images below the cut (WARNING: Some PG-13 saucy shenanigans ahead)

Part three of their date: an unconventional visit to a nearby alley so Light can clear his head and try to get to the point of the outing. The events lead him to becoming confident enough to move onto the next stage...

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[handsofred]

I want a Derek who still lived in New York for a while before returning to Beacon Hill's, who while in NYC, he learned how to bake and create cakes and once he returned to BH, opens up his own cake/bakery shop and creates custom made cakes for people as well as every day cookies and cupcakes and other yummy goodness.

Maybe Stiles is someone who owns a coffee shop or even a milkshake shop across the street from Derek's Bakes' (or whatever other punny name....same with Stiles' place. (you shake it, we make it) but yeah, he would totally drape himself across the front counter, just staring across the street at this grumpy looking guy who looks like he could bench press Stiles twice...no triple times over. But instead, he sees him baking away, mixing and measuring things out because the bakery is totally that type where there's a small kitchen behind the counter as well as the one out back for the custom cakes because lets face it, despite the bright colours and the cute unicorn cakes and woodland animal cakes that Derek makes for birthdays and etc...he totally makes exotic cakes as well for hen do's and stag nights and just...well for anyone who wants a dirty cake.

I can see maybe Stiles and Derek clashes at first, I can see Erica working for Stiles and Boyd working for Derek and they start hanging out and then dating which brings the boys together...but then someone mentions that they should do a deal...maybe Derek could offer cookies and if someone brought so many, they get a money off voucher for one of Stiles' milkshakes or vice versa....which they reluctantly agree too.

cue this to them actually spending time with each other and Stiles spending time in the back kitchen with Derek when he's baking and one day he walks in while Derek is sculpting a dick cake for a hens party and just blanks. (blue screen of death) His mind just stops at seeing the way Derek's hands spreads the buttercream or is decorating the fine details on this cake cock.

Anyway...time moves on and I can see them ending up dating and everything and just being so cute together that it makes everyone gags. but I can see maybe one day in the future, they end up moving in together and things happen and Derek makes another cake and it's in the fridge at their home or in the shop, maybe Derek and Stiles ends up opening a store together to combine their stores and it's a grand opening or after.

but yeah, I can see that all their friends are there after hours, just enjoying themselves and laughing and joking around. I can see that maybe someone brings out the cock cake and people are enjoying it and Jackson mentions something to Stiles and he replies snarkly so Jackson says something along the lines of sucking his cock.

Stiles would just get this all knowing smirk on his face and asks how Jackson is enjoying the cake and Jackson shrugging and saying that it is good and Stiles just nodding which has Jackson raising his brow before asking what that look means.

And Stiles would just shrug and say that while he would never suck Jackson's cock, that he loves that Jackson loves Stiles' own cock.

cause I can see the cock cake that Derek made was totally modelled from Stiles' cock and Jackson just blanches and everyone is silent before busting out in to laughter.

[wundrousarts]

Going to do a Nevermoor series reread in June + July + August ? if anyone else also wants to do a reread around that time, could be fun to have more of the fandom prepping for Silverborn

Did initially make a roadmap plan to split the books up into weeks on top of already being months, so that people could focus on specific parts and discuss each week….. but between the fact that I messed it up the first time, Silverborn kept getting delayed as I planned it, and I’m actually really bad at keeping to stuff like that (looking at you, Silverborn Countdown Challenge…) I’m deciding to just go for it at whatever pace happens.

[crescentfool]

having the hc that minato is ace is incredibly funny sometimes when you think about how ryoji is oh so very bi because it's like. "ah. death stole my ability to be attracted to people," in the same way that ryoji stole minato's eye color and energy level. like wow, thanks ryoji, you just keep finding things to steal from minato!

[project-sekai-facts]

Do you have any facts about how they make the motions in 3dmv and live shows (or stuff like that) I’ve been really curious about bow those work

this has been sitting in my inbox for months and i accidentally found the mocap company today so here

the mocap for 3DMVs and Connect Lives is done by a company called Solid Cube (website) (twitter). they also do the mocap for all the project diva games, the bandori animes (including the ex-spinoff argonavis), the first season of the D4DJ anime, IDOLiSH7 anime and PVs, and the games and animes for Idolmaster and imas sideM, and some other stuff i can't be asked to list.

i can't really find anything about their process specifically in regards to prsk, but there is some stuff on their website. also on their twitter they put the credits for the actors and choreographers for each MV (if you don't want to scroll through their entire account for the proseka stuff here's a link to everything)

[tiddiesoutwhenthetisout]

not me curling my laptop charger wire the way you curl band equipment cords HAHAHA god i miss it

[nakanotamu]

Utami: Miyu worked very hard to leave a bunch of very ~loving~ marks on my neck... a LOT... Uh, thanks... 😂

Kamitani: Huh... Utami-san...? 🥺

Utami: What - HUH???

Kamitani: With a girl who isn't me...!? 🥲 Utami-san.... 🫠

[endlessfuckup]

saw your post about no longer wanting to be a phan blog and i just wanted to say i get you especially the reaction to this tour has been very uncomfortable and i could never figure out exactly why it felt... overbearing ig??? but it has been building and the tour leak and announcement just seemed to put a spotlight on people seem to have learned nothing from the previous years and seem to think that now that they're back it's okay to push their boundaries because they're engaging with us again. and tbh i appreciate you for helping put into words the discomfort ive been feeling and it sucks that it turned out like this that the enjoyment of the thing gets harder because of others

I was so so hoping it wouldn't get like this again

The first 5-6 months of the gaming channel being back were mostly wonderful

Everyone was behaving and respectfully enjoying dnp being back as a duo

I've seen/felt it building up over the past few months but I kept ignoring it because I figured it was just newer phans who didn't know about any of "the lore"

But every time I'd check their page out it would almost always be someone in their mid-late 20s who has been around for 10+ years

I was dumbfounded

I genuinely cannot believe people still treat Dan and Phil like tv characters who exist purely for entertaining the masses

Its really sad

[shoshiwrites]

So I've been unfolding a collection of maybe a couple hundred WWII letters at work. Haven't really been reading them. Started reading towards the end and dear lord sometimes I really, really am reading other peoples' mail.

So if you heard a noise that kind of sounded like sobbing but was actually a person trying to stifle their laughter at what's essentially 1940s sexting, that was me.

[loppiopio]

an imitation of the cheap variety

[mayhemtowntv]

I shouldn't be so sad. I was being accused of things I didn't do, I was being treated unfairly, I was being blamed for things that weren't my fault or things they did as well that were perfectly fine for them but not me, I was being treated like a terrible person for things I did that I meant well but they took as malice, they were rude to me but when I say anything back it makes me a bad person... I'm sorry for making it hard to be my friend sometimes, but I've apologized for everything I said and did and none of them have apologized for anything they said or did. I took accountability and I changed my behavior and I'm actively working on avoiding out of line behaviors. Where's that from them?

[whiskeyswifty]

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[dawntheduckrb]

I'll stop posting wips eventually but it's been five days since I've said anything and I don't want anyone to think I'm dead/dying/stuck in a ditch and withering away, so here's 10% of the reason I disappeared (the duck is stuck in rendering hell) (and my little baby laptop is screaming at me every time I open up this file)

I might still be mostly lurking for a little bit so please be patient with me in the meantime 🙏🙏