#getting into everything

[gcu-sovereign]

Finished Artificial Condition, the 2nd novella in the series.

Murderbot REALLY leaned into the 3rd person observation+action and lack of awareness in emotional presentation that Taylor Hebert appreciators would delight in. The pacing in quick enough to...mostly track with Taylor's rescue from a Merchants' rave, but Murderbot is even more whipped onward to some new adventure than fucking Wildbow's serial style.

The Man in the Ear/Remote Operations support figure of ART reminded me of nothing so much as a infantile Culture Mind. The boredom, need for companionship, overwhelming computational power, understated armament. It's all there! I haven't read enough to think whether that's intentional yet. The chekov's gun setups are more obvious and less the consequence of Murderbot's casual disinterest in their social environment, so I think the two synthetic characters will appear sooner rather than later.

The reveal towards the end of the backstory left me a little confused. It's obviously something that will take Murderbot a lot of time to digest, even if revelatory catharsis isn't in the cards eventually. But the process of obtaining that info by using your own power supply? What? On that note, you think murderbot is going to need a firearm for when wrist mounted storm bolters can't be walked through haxored security?

[gcu-sovereign]

@michigrim @official-kircheis

Need this redrawn with Oshino Meme

again and again and again and again

[gcu-sovereign]

Finished Rogue Protocol.

Murderbot's comedic sociopathy and parentheticals are most evocative of Daniel Way's Deadpool run, and the latter element is strongly on display here. Obviously there's less profanity and innuendo, and visually they aren't expressive to a quarter of Wade's extent, but the medium requires and uses less comedic bandwidth.

Our protagonist should probably be more actively acquisitive in their quests, if only to deepen the bag of chekhov's guns available. Like taking pieces of armor and explosives.

There were zero moments of reflection on freeing the ComfortBot from their governor module in the previous installment. The looking back Murderbot does is with respect to the baby GCU, who will doubtless reappear in the 4th book to bring some plot threads home.

[gcu-sovereign]

Harrowhark Nonagesimus got a Magic card!

The outfit! The small stature! The reanimation! The class subtype [warlock, class of dark pacts]! The NAME!

The only thing missing from this is the catholicism and homosexuality!

[icewindandboringhorror]

(also feel free in the tags to clarify Why you made the choice you made!! :0c)

[gcu-sovereign]

I could recognize the track from seeing what the rhythm was before I scrolled down.

[and I don't even go here!]

[bruciemilf]

Bruce truly hates magic with every pump and beat of his heart.

What kinda curse is Slang, anyway?

“This is the best day of my life.”

“Bro really thought he ate with that.” Bruce physically feels a full body shiver, charged with nausea and cringe. “This is level 10 cringe. Can’t have shit in Gotham.”

Dick is his earth bound angel, but he laughs like a demon at him, holding onto Jason for support, pledging his eternal loyalty to Zatana and her pettiness.

—

“Hey, old bat, hook me up with an adrenaline shot.”

What he wants to say is Jay, do not try and fight with 6 bullets in your stomach.

What comes out instead, through Bruce’s grit teeth and intense, fierce glaring, “Not you trying to go back to your corpse era. See how I only took 2 shots? Very demure. Very mindful.”

Jason passes out from blood loss, but mostly laughter.

—

“Chat, is this real?”

Stephanie barely bites back a full belly cackle. “I think he just asked us if we copied.”

“I wish I was Jason, 15.”

—

“This is not a slay environment. Killing is flop behavior.” He keeps his eyes shut and buries his face in his hands. Trying to convince Damian not to stab someone doesn’t seem to work.

Damian gives him a pat like he’s a pitiful cat. “I’ll only stab the non lethal areas.”

“God, I wish that were me.”

[junglejim4322]

Something that I have noticed is I know almost nobody my age that goes to a food pantry. I know people who regularly run out of money for food and in general have to eat an unsuitable diet because that’s what they can afford and they still don’t go to a food bank, im not sure if it’s because they’re embarrassed or maybe if you didn’t grow up going you don’t know much about it but if you’re financially struggling I really recommend it. And look into other options for food assistance too like community fridges and gardens and other programs that can assist you, where I live Salvation Army pays for an allotted amount of grocery delivery for low income people every month, in the summer farmers take excess produce to the library to be taken by anyone who needs it, etc. There are a LOT of resources for free food that you can look into especially if you are literally not eating because of your financial situation

[pallettown]

genuinely so scary that you can't access the page on the ssc website that guides you through changing your sex designation. so so fucking scary. they are already making our lives harder. they are already taking what little resources we have.

[gcu-sovereign]

-good guy Khârn

-Meme Oshino

nobody is coming to save you. get up

[goomyloid]

The remorseful player

[heph]

Yall ever think about how Ford had to relearn how to be a normal human being after 30 years of isolation

[demogorgon]

sinners: how real stories of irish and choctaw oppression inform the film

[gcu-sovereign]

Just Hiro Protagonist Things

technique looks perfect

[gcu-sovereign]

Drinks of the Subjective Clock

Had some maraschino liquer in cider last night about an hour before falling asleep, was eventually subject to a 3+ hour long dream featuring Paul Cheon (the mtg commentator and drafter), who was moonlighting as a visionary animator? that basically did The Invisibles meets Final Crisis with Irredeemable's last issue thrown in.

Going to try reproducing the drink and timing tonight, in the spirit of that SSC post about pseudo-edibles.