#except for the tech stuff

[jerseygirl5000]

So jealous of people who also foolishly majored in the liberal arts but then transitioned into tech. theyre always like yeah i just taught myself to code. HUH???? i thought we majored in fuck ass majors like poli sci bc we couldnt do shit like that…..i thought you were one of us….

[marlynnofmany]

“Who are you, and what are you doing here?”

“Okay, calm down. I’ll preface this explanation with one thing: unbelievable scenarios sound more real if there’s something to complain about. Also, I have not touched a thing in here, and I am literally lost.”

“Lost in my house.”

“Apparently so. An inconvenience for us both.”

“So what’s your explanation before I beat you about the head with this and call the cops?”

“Right. Do you know what teleporters are?”

“I know they’re made up, from movies and—”

“And this one is the worst crock of compost I have ever had the misfortune of pressing buttons on. It’s a scam; look, even the straps are coming loose. It could have fallen off completely and stranded me between worlds, or come halfway loose and scraped my face across the edges of the realities. If I ever get back to the anus leech who sold this to me, I’m going to do thorough and creative violence to him. There will be duct tape, a sockful of batteries, and several Andromedan firewhips involved. I can borrow those from my neighbor if I ever get back home. She owes me for helping fix the antigravity in her apartment after the cat stepped on the buttons.”

“Okay. I’m willing to listen, and not beat you about the head just yet. Is it supposed to blink like that?”

“What the sweet and salty afterlife — Oh no, I’ve seen this before. Stupid straps! Fine, breaking is better than unfastening. Quick, which thing in this room do you hate most?”

“Lamp.”

“Got it.”

KatchewwwPOP

“Okay. I believe you now.”

“Sorry about the lamp. Here, I’ve got a light.”

“And of course it’s a magical floating one. Why would I expect anything else? Or probably a high-tech one, not magic.”

“Right.”

“Do people eat ramen where you’re from? I’ll make us something while we talk. I’d like to hear all of the everything, please, and I imagine you need to figure out how you’re going to get home.”

“Ah, yes. To all of the above, thank you.”

[spotaus]

That Modern(ish) Tauverse AU where we have Nightmare and his four adoptive sons now has this lil collection of Bad Reference Doodles lol!

[sylestial]

i want a manual transmission honda element so fucking badddddd

[hemoth]

jay can’t watch tv like normal people. can’t go to the movies, can’t go to the hospital. just thinking about how horribly inconvenient it is to deal with his hum. to watch television is to just be frustrated. to be reminded of his curse. screens flicker when he’s tired, they glitch when he’s emotional. sometimes they turn on when they shouldn’t and then sometimes they never turn on again. tv becomes something he used to enjoy. but can’t anymore. streaming services buffer eternally, old dvd players stall out, anything “smart” refuses to acknowledge him.

he can’t go to the movies. it’s alienating, isolating. the projector might glitch, lights might flicker, someone’s phone might die next to him, the whole system might loop mid-scene & no one would know why. he doesn’t want to ruin someone else’s escape. so he stays home. tells people he’s “not into that kind of thing.” watches the shadows on his wall like they’re enough.

he does like to read, though. has books stacked on every surface of his apartment. they’re worn, written in, hoarded. he draws. maps, mostly. but also snippets of tragedies he’s seen before. he’ll listen to static - heavy radios that only half work… the crackle is strangely comforting.

[goddessofroyalty]

How are Sephiroth and Cloud when it comes to their kids getting into fights at school? This is admittedly a tad rhetorical but still wanted to hear your take since you always go into detail.

"Did you win?"

It's a tad more nuanced than that but honestly I do think both of them care a lot about whether their kid won the fight or now.

For Sephiroth that's all that kind of matters when it comes to the older ones. With some of the younger ones (Chadley and Mai especiallly but Hope a little as well) and after he's done the persoal grwoth of realising they are acamdemic not cambatants and that's probably actually a good thing than he's telling (well, basically ordering) the remnant triplets to go 'deal with it' because he can't have someone beat up his kid and get away with it even if this kid isn't that physically strong.

Cloud cares a lot more about the cotext of how the fight started. Like if it was them looking for a fight than he's not happy with them and they do probably get grounded (even if he still asks if they won and goes 'good' when they say they did). If it's a case of the other person started it and his kid finished it or the other person was bullying/beating up someone who couldn't fight back and his kid stepped in then his kid's probably getting icecream for it.

With both of them if their kid didn't win (Chadley and Mai and Hope excluded) than they're going to be spending more time training the kid to make sure they dont't lose next time.

[teethbomb]

I know you’re supposed to hear someone out before disagreeing with them but I don’t think I can read all of that without getting really mad

[commodoresigma]

Gentle Comics Habit - 10 Minutes

something non-autobiographical for once, ft. an undrawn* OC named Tetra

*not published, at least

[newsies-united]

i liked (most of) my teachers better this year but why did this year suck more academically. get me out of here june 10 cannot come fast enough

[yeonban]

Tobias is always wearing the latest fashion & using the allegedly latest gadgets (<-most of which don't actually exist on the market bc they're made at Wammy's or specifically created for him alone) but his house only has the minimum technology required to function & even That is placed strategically in rooms he rarely goes into and typically no guests can access. NEVER in his bedroom or hangout rooms where he typically speaks in (<-except the gaming/TV room, for obvious reasons). He too knows how to hack systems, so he's more than aware of how easy it can be for sb who works in the field to grab a hold of his stuff and use it to their advantage if they wanted to.

Blud doesn't even have CCTV cameras installed anywhere because he doesn't want them to be hacked into & used to spy on him instead, so whenever he wants to find/retrieve footage of anything, he either hacks into the city's surveillance cameras, looks at the cameras his various friends have installed around their houses/headquarters/territories/etc or finds someone who can access relevant visuals from the inside (i.e police/fbi/cia agents etc) 😭 the only cases in which he'd install cameras is if he'd know sb is after him & he wanted to misdirect them with fake info about his life/schedule/routine/etc, but they'd be promptly taken down afterwards anyway.

[minglana]

ppl only want me when it comes to installing apps on their phones or giving instructions on how to use firefox

[a-single-bloom]

I felt cute

[succliberation]

People really like the funky lil robots that NASA spends an incredible amount of time, effort, and money to launch into space.

People really don't like the awesome new AI software that took an incredible amount of time, effort, and money to get working Solution: We gotta start anthropomorphizing the AI image generators.

[dreadfutures]

my hot take is the whole "search for life in the universe" thing is truly just a spin to put sparkle in children's eyes and make dumb congresspeople who like the idea of aliens fund science that actually helps people

the endeavors bring about a ton of great science that is related to health and ecology and atmospheric monitoring and all sorts of stuff and understanding how our planet and life was former and the scientists who do this research and stare at radiograms and try to figure out if that chemical stretch is a C-S or a C-C or a C-O bond, are amazing scientists

but god do I have no interest in "uwu we might have found signs of life on other planets!"

the first time was vaguely neat, now we know it's entirely possible and not novel and probably there's phytoplankton (at best) in some ocean planets that we will never ever visit woo hoo

most of the astro people I know working on these projects are mostly interested in the spectroscopy part too and not the whole search for alien life thing so it's very hard for me to look at the press releases with anything but weariness

no one's interested when we figure out what metals are in the active sites of proteins or that actually a redox inactive metal mutated into this other protein actually increases its activity bc the mechanism involves redox active ligands and cofactors, rather than the metal itself. just. you know. as an example. but every time there's a little blip of "oh there's NOx and SOx and VOCs on another distant planet according to this one spectra--" gets a front page news thing.

[captain-ultimat-doggo]

Humans entering space and realizing we are so small. We are mice compared to these giant races with their advanced machinery and technologies and experiences beyond us- except that we're humans. And our engineers dive into the new tech and once we learn the principles we also soon realize how Inefficient everything is. Their "microchips" are the size of cars, their storage drives are basically buildings, and they somehow store less data than ours. So, human companies take advantage, and tech starts rolling out. Massive and there's a lot of wasted space so that it can be managed with larger hands/pincers/claws/tentacles, but also so much more efficient than anything the galaxy has seen before.

Human technicians start hopping ships and upkeeping the general maintenance, the stuff that most aliens put off or don't notice because they never access the crevices of their ships. As human companies become more popular and lead the tech world in everything from warp cores to game stations ("it's so compact! How are the graphics so good?" Says a 60' tall grimbleback, holding a new VR headset that has all of its components included because it's so BIG by our tech standards), soon many things have accessibility ports for humans to be able to use as well. This means that these shiprats hoping ship to ship cause such a huge improvement in everything running smoothly, and there's a huge downtick in pests on ships because those "pests" are not only big enough and aggressive enough to bite a pitbull or a person in half, they're invasive to so many planets and humans hate nothing more than dog killing planet overrunning monsters.

All the while, from the Aliens perspective, humans are an elusive race that don't fraternize much with them. You almost never see a human as most places aren't exactly safe for the little things to run around in. They do export so much stuff though, and the custodial staff at the Central Galactic Outpost insists that there's more humans around than any other race if you just know where to look.

And sure it's somewhat known that some of the little daredevils hop ships and help out in exchange for room and board, usually without permission, but that can't be that common, can it?

Maybe your ship is running better this cycle ever since you stopped at the last station, that just means that tuneup was better than you thought. And maybe for some reason that program you were working on last night is finished when you wake up, but you're so tired maybe you finished it before you passed out. Somehow that faulty light in the galley has fixed itself as well, which is odd, but maybe the Engineer finally got to it. You'd know if there was someone else on your ship.

Right?

... You leave a little bowl of berries out as a thank you, just in case. You're not sure what humans like but you've heard they have a sweet tooth.

[darksouls2yuri]

one handed typers are a persecuted class