#he had a JOB Sam
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Analyzing… Analyzing…
Negative.
With a a huff, D.R.E. slammed the refrigeration unit shut. He was halfway through the time frame of his assignment, and he was becoming increasingly aware of its slim odds of success. There would be no penalty for failure, but D.R.E. was competent, the best of the best, and to fail at his directive (no matter how stacked the odds were against him) felt unacceptable.
An intense crash sounded behind him. D.R.E. blinked, head swiveling without regard for its body.
Oh. The earth robot had knocked itself into a pile of garbage. Again.
It was (painfully) obvious the outdated bot had been following him for the duration of his exploration, the small beeps and Redstone ticking would be giving away its presence easily, but along with its strangely clumsy nature, there was some wonder at why it attempted to evade detection at all.
Odd. (Silly. Stupid.)
He watched the robot dig itself out, mapping out his next location to scan as it vocalized its frustration. He needed to keep searching, of course. He needed to follow the plan, the Directive. But…
More information could be considered tangentially related.
The redstone bot was sinking into a junk pile, shouting in stressed exclamations. D.R.E. picked him up with as much care as he could, flying them towards a cleaner surface beneath the night sky. It squeaked, but made no attempts to attack, which he appreciated. It really wouldn't be great for their first conversation to be hindered by annoying miscommunication.
Gently, he set it down. Its eyes peeked up at him from where they had hidden, and slowly it unfolded, outdated solar panels flipping to face him.
"Oh." It said. D.R.E. let his face flicker for a moment in thought.
"Oh." He agreed. Conversations were,,,, not his strong suit. He would start with something easy. "Name?"
It's panels raised in surprise. "Oh. SAM."
"Sam." D.R.E. hummed. Like the SAM-E's on the ship. Possibly the original model, which meant it had been strong enough to survive all these years. D.R.E. approved.
"Name?"
"… D.R.E."
"Drea-mmm?" Sam tried. Despite himself, D.R.E.'s LED smile glowed a little warmer.
"No. D.R.E."
"Dream." Sam repeated, rolling a little closer in excitement. It waved at him, shaking Redstone dust from out beneath his claws.
The Redstone glowed dim on its arms, obviously manually applied over the years to keep it going. D.R.E. pulled an arm close to inspect it. The flaps on the back of Sam's torso wagged.
"Redstone. Old." He murmured. Robots hadn't needed to function through Redstone in centuries.
"Hm?" Sam was making an odd rumbling noise now, practically knocking into D.R.E. He allowed it, assured in his own ability to neutralize a threat should it become one.
"Redstone." D.R.E. said. He ran a finger up it's arm in example, before pointing to his Eye Of Ender peeking out of his own chest. "Ender Eye."
"Ender." Sam squinted at the Eye. Lightly, it dragged a claw across the pupil. It opened to scan the limb.
Analyzing… Analyzing…. Negative.
Obviously.
Sam startled suddenly, jerking away and grabbing D.R.E.'s arm. He let himself be dragged along towards a storage unit with confusion. A threat? Should he be aiming a weapon?
"Dream." It urged. "In. In in in."
"Sam?" He asked. The dust storm began to pick up around them, and he realized the issue. "Sam!"
"Dream. In." Sam commanded, and they went in. The large door slammed behind them.
It was dark. And then it was not.
Sam was eager to show its strange, pre-ship contraptions, its eyes wide with delight as D.R.E. fiddled with pistons and glowing stones and the strangest music player D.R.E. had ever seen. He chirred at the cockroach ("Fran," Sam buzzed with affection,) and glided to the screen Sam was attempting to invest him in. It was sweet, someone wanting his attention for something other than new orders to follow, a new directive to accomplish, even if he didn't understand half of what he was being shown.
(His directive beeped in the back of his memory, reminding him of what he was supposed to be focusing on. It was fine, though. Just until the storm stopped.)
He felt claws nudging into his fingers.
"Hm?" D.R.E. let his head roll idly. Sam's tail flaps wagged.
"Dream!" It said as it tucked its head into the curve of his neck. The odd rumble started up again, louder than before; D.R.E. rested his head on its own to see if he could feel the vibrations.
"Sam?"
Sam's solar panels tapped against the glow of D.R.E.'s smile before pulling away to clap. It beckoned D.R.E. over to where more oddities were piling up. A gnarled blue thing was shoved into D.R.E.'S hands as Sam looked to him for approval.
What a strange color. He scanned it.
Analyzing…. Analyzing….
Confirmed.
Oh.
(He would not know of Sam's panic until much later.)
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Dream didn't look at him as they were both led away to…. somewhere? The ship was wholly unfamiliar to SAM, outside of the little screens on Earth. He'd never seen the humans in the flesh (or if he had, he no longer recalled,) and the design of the ship seemed to run wholly on Ender Eyes, the familiar Redstone Crimson absent in favor of glassy, glossy green.
Dream was familiar. He was the only reason SAM wanted anything to do with the ship anyway, which was why he gently tugged on Dream's hand with his claws, hoping to slip their fingers together.
The hope was crushed as Dream tugged his hand away. He glared, his usual smile flat and mirthless.
"SAM." He said sternly. SAM shrunk into himself. He knew Dream was still mad about the plant being missing, but they were together now, so they could absolutely go look for it later after they held hands, right? SAM didn't see a problem with that. Hand holding wouldn't interfere with plant finding. He was sure of it.
Dream suddenly drooped, anger falling away as they entered a room filled with more robots. He sighed and waved SAM off, letting himself he pulled away by a large claw and into a separate room.
Immediately another claw came down on him as he tried to follow.
"Dream," SAM called out as he scrambled to get away. He was plonked into a separation area, Redstone dust clouds in his wake. "Dream!"
What followed in the next few moments happened very, very fast.
SAM barely registered the removal of Dream's head (the depressed smile vanishing completely as he was deactivated) before he was destroying the containment cube. In a fervor he was grabbing at the claw with Dream's head and tearing the precious orb out of its arm to cradle. There was some sort of mania happening with the bots behind him, but he ignored it in favor of pushing Dream back together.
He was barely aware of the distressed noises he was making, desperate as he failed to get Dream to come back. It was fine if he never held SAM's hand again, really, he would give up hand holding forever, he just wanted Dream to come back!
He was nearly toppled over as another bot rolled to them. They shoved SAM to the side and leaned forward to inspect his work. With a tsk, they took the orb from his claws (ignoring his enraged squawk and attempts to fight them) and activated the Ender Eye on Dreams chest, setting the orb on top of the body as it begun to float.
A familiar lime smile appeared on its face. It scrunched in confusion.
"What?" Dream asked, twisting his head every which way. SAM followed the movements with complete and utterly joy.
"Dream!"
Dream looked over SAM's head, and the confusion became alarm. "SAM!"
It was then that SAM realized the room they were in was completely destroyed, and partially on fire.
The robot beside them made an amused noise before rolling out the door, ignoring the robots rioting all around.
(Tech-No. 8 was having an excellent day, and as he watched the warning signs appear with pictures of the strange SAM-E and D.R.E., he decided that it was likely to get even better. If they lived through this he might even get to make fun of D.R.E. for bringing home an incompetent sparkmate)
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#sfw boxing#backposting#awesamwastaken#Techno just wants anarchy on an authoritarian ship#is that too much to ask#also Sam made Dream look like an idiot in front of his superiors#this is a crime#and the punishment is no hand holding#There was a PLAN Sam#the plan was GIVE PLANT TO PEOPLE#he had a JOB Sam#Also to replace the og Sam's gas mask. SAM-E's mouth area is solar panels#also he gets a tail and claws/paws because. I have demons.
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Technically the other one I did still stands even for the newest audio, but I just wanted to draw Sam and David so <3
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#redacted audio#gba#good boy audios#redacted asmr#redacted sam#redacted david#redacted quinn#redacted vampires#redacted wolf pack#redacted actor au#actor au#redactedverse#redacted fanart#side note GBA had RENT DUE#HE DID SUCH A GOOD JOB
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i truly believe will bailey’s shitty character development post s4 was entirely down to him not having enough gay sex
#will bailey#the west wing#he took the job bc he had a crush on sam#then left the job bc he was bitter he hadn’t impressed sam enough to win him over (back to the administration)#and that toby would not only never really like him but he’d never dislike him enough to hate fuck him#goes and works for a man toby hates and STILL doesn’t get fucked#well not in the good way#then buries himself so deep in the closet he manages to date actual lesbian kate harper#send that man off to oregon to get a beefy lumberjack boyfriend#tww
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the chapter songs in Alan Wake 2,, flawless
#they deserve more love and discussion#saying this while also not knowing what to say other than they’re so fucking good#alan wake 2#i think it’s partially because poets of the fall’s tracks are iconic so of course they’re in the spotlight (as deserved)#but also the CHAPTER SONGS. them being made for a given chatacter(s) with the help of Sam lakes poetry#the changes with ‘this road’ by Poe with every Alan chapter. becoming more distorted and revealing lyrics and the spiral#the scratch song being 1) hilarious and 2) similar to Zane’s poetry in the aw1 arg#the emotion in superhero when saga feels lost at the story making it so Logan was gone#the lines of her feeling like a ghost in this story forming around her.. how she feels guilty and absent for both what the story’s doing#and being away from Logan because of her job. ashdhhhhjhh my heart#AND. follow you into the dark HAS to be alice. which kills me because at for at I thought of Alan#but no. Alice jumped in the dark place after him. it’s so !!!!!!!!!!!#the rabbit hole line. Alice spiraling deeper and deeper into a dream—into wonderland#the Lost at Sea one is also good. intrigues me. the Bowie and Lynch references are blatantly aw2 Zane#but it’s so similar to diver Zane and the ‘originals’ death. being lost in the dark place with illusions of escape#and losing any sense of identity. whether he’s real at all or the monster of this sea or just a lost soul.#the soft and calm vocals / instrumental really makes the whole thing#NEED to stop typing more tags because this is a Lot. however.#‘no one left to love’ is also a phenomenal song and one of my favorites from the album. GORGEOUS vocals and how it all flows together.#such a powerful and beautiful way to end a chapter#anyway that’s all I had to say :)#god. I’ve started to watch a few playthroughs of the game and 90% of people have skipped the chapter songs and every time im#that’s fair but my brain and soul might implode if I don’t see anyone else talking about how good these songs are
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I'm taking my bets hes gonna come back again but be more insane
And then its all just gonna keep repeating with more agains in the title every time he dies
#sun and moon show#sams#tsams#the sun and moon show#sun and moon show fnaf#though i gotta say pop off lunar#good for you man good job on killing your murderer#sure its not morally right its understandable on why he did it#i mean if i got killed and then my killer had the audacity to then try and make me work with them to do something id be pissed aswell
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The more I watch it…
… I definitely think the reason the Nate and Eliot relationship gets overlooked is that it’s very tacit and unspoken. These are two guys who do not discuss feelings, at least not directly, instead they just steadily… Fall into a pattern, they develop a system. The trust and loyalty between them isn’t spelled out in long speeches or discussions; it’s in the way Eliot starts to look to Nate for a cue if he should engage; Eliot allowing Nate to pull him back; it’s Nate never trying to force details of Eliot’s past from him; the way Nate only ever doubts Eliot once and then never again; the way Nate looks at Eliot after being forced to take a drink in the Bottle Job, or any other time; their conversation about the bank robbery in the Bank Shot job; Eliot being willing to kill for Nate; no matter how far on a bent he is, it’s in Nate never asking him to; it’s in Eliot and Sophie worrying about Nate’s destructive behaviour and his drinking; Nate telling Eliot ‘get them to the chopper’ rather than ‘get to the chopper’; it’s every time Eliot speaks out about a play or choice he doesn’t agree w/ and calling Nate out; it’s them sitting in silence in the bar; it’s the way Eliot falls in at Nate’s shoulder, or shifts in front of him in case of threat; it’s Eliot doing things Nate asks even when he complains; it’s Nate honestly responding when Eliot confronts him; it’s the Zanzibar Job; Eliot being mad Nate (and the others) left the baseball game early; Nate trying to protect Eliot from being forced to do the fixed fight; his panic at thinking Eliot’s been shot for a moment; Nate sounding for all the world like a proud dad during the country music ep; the exchange at the end of the cheerleading ep; them both harping on Hardison to tip the messenger; Nate trying to curb Eliot’s flirting; watching sports together; it’s the tiny glances they exchange or they way they sometimes move in sync.
Leverage Inc has no hierarchy, not really, not in the usual sense, but they fill their own roles based on their strengths and personalities. There’s no outright decision, no official acknowledgement, but they don’t need that. Nate and Eliot settle seamlessly into not just the roles of a mastermind and his loyal, trusted, and competent lieutenant and enforcer, but also something reminiscent of a father and an eldest son. They are actually one of the closest bonds in the whole crew (which is comprised of very close bonds, to be fair, but hopefully you get the point), they just do it so naturally and almost in the periphery that it can go unnoticed/understood very easily.
#Leverage#COME TO MY TED TALKS#anyway I love this I love them#Eliot and Nate have something that other mastermind and hitter combos WISH they had#if anyone else saw that post I made about how Eliot effectively lost his father and Nate lost his son…#like I said there Eliot Hardison and Parker are all three the Kids#but I do feel like part of the way Eliot and Nate connect is they both find something that they'd been missing in the relationship#Sam will never grow up play guitar or have a date#watch sports w/ him#Eliot never gets to have his father know the good he's been able to do to worry about him or just spend timee w/ him#yes the ages don't line up but who cares#it's like an estranged family finally bonding in adulthood that's literally the plot of NUMB3RS#and yeah it's very mob/mafia#like they're practically a mafia family#anyway excuse me while I go back and watch the Zanzibar job again bc damn if that's not one of the three hottest things on tv in this show#Literal Crime Family
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SOOOOOO hard to go through everyday life trying to ignore the never-ending feeling that im just irreparably fucked up and therefore should just give up on everything
#this aint exactly s******* but it aint exactly not s******* either#anyways it gets even harder when i have to live under the same roof as my brother who is so much better than me in every single conceivable#and imaginable way possible like#and i knowwww a LOT of it comes down to us having relatively similar yet wildly different lives despite being 1.5y apart and having the sam#family our entire lives like he has gone through NOTHING and i mean not a single societal issue ive had to face and endure my entire life#he's a man im a woman. he's white im black. he's straight im gay. he's skinny ive always been 'overweight'. he's always been the good#christian kid ive always had issues w faith and religion. he's never been mentally ill i was clinically depressed for nearly 8yrs of my lif#we both lost the same parent and im the only one who got pathological grief and a personality disorder out of it. he's had a great job for#the last 7yrs that now pays him 20k+ every month ive only had 3 odd jobs my entire life and 2 of those my MOTHER had to give me so i would#have SOMETHING and ive never made over 1.6k monthly n my last job was minimum wage only#he's had like 4 relationships and is nearly engaged im so traumatized + emotionally unavailable ive only ever been on 1 date my entire life#he has a good relationship w every family member we have i have Issues w like half the family. he's always been an active member of our#church i can barely listen to like 4 traditional hymns before i start losing my mind and spiraling. i think the only two ways we're pretty#much equal like socially is that we're both able bodied cis and christians but still the cis and christian thing is debatable for previousl#stated reasons so like. do yall see how much better he is doing than me in every little last area in life and how he's always gotten the#long straw when it comes to Not having to deal w certain obstacles in life. n i know its like yea idk what it actually is like to be him an#he could not be doing all that well first of all shut up. second of all if it was 1 or 2 things i'd get it but it's literally EVERYTHING#and i know bc of said things n our v different lives it's unfair to me to compare the two of us but then it begs the question: WHY#WHY did i have to go through these things. WHY do i have to deal w this. WHY did i get the short straw literally every goddamn time#WHY did i have to get THIS life like WHYYYYY why ME GOD. why have I had to put up w all this bullshit for 24 fucking years!!!!!!!!! im TIRE#and this is not me hating or resenting him i know it's not his fault and he is so good to me#but still. why was i left with these things? to live like this?#so yes i guess i do envy him a little bit. who wouldn't#mari.txt#personal#tw negative#dl#btw i do NOT mean some identities are better than others. i mean he is better and is doing better than me in life partially bc he's never#had to deal w certain social issues and obstacles that come w oppressed identities.
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idk if dean making fun of sam for spraining his elbow was supposed to be brotherly teasing but it came off ... kind of mean? especially since it came just after dean being a demon and almost bashing sams head in with a hammer
that + carelessly listing off things sam's been through. what happened to as long as i'm around nothing bad's gonna happen to you. dude should be in shambles
#ask#anon#he had one job. and he screwed it up like congrats buddy it's the worst anyone's ever done it#sam has been hurt so much and then you had him possessed against his will and you tried to bash his skull in#you don't get to make fun of his sling
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man it feels so fuckin weird being adhd and trying to find resources because there's almost 0 adhd specific groups or orgs where I am and i feel weird looking at the more general disability advocacy orgs because in comparison with like cerebral palsy or various high-support places on the autism spectrum i just Am Not As Disabled so it feels disingenuous of me to look into them. so i'm just left watching videos in chunks on like 'how to use these time management tools!' even though itll only ever work for like two weeks tops and then i'll be back at square one dysfunction-wise. it's literally so grating
#actually adhd#adhd#like i know what good these orgs can do!#my bro's med-support on the spectrum and the job training one org had did wonders to help get him the support#to do a job he really loves and can subsist on while staying at my folks#but bc im comparatively lower-support there's just Nothing and obvs higher support individuals should come first#and by no means should they Not Get Those Resources#i just wish there were more options for me other than an in person group. on the other side of the fucking state.#sam's thinkin again
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why is there no fic of accountant!cas helping dean with his taxes?
#destiel#dean who's never earned enough to have to declare tax bc he only ever did cash inhand odd jobs#handyman and mechanic work and bartending etc.#but now he settled down and has a real job with a bank account and he's above the threshold#and sam pointed out he had to do his taxes now and dean was like WHAT and freaking out bc the deadline is days away#cue dean showing up flustered and desperate and confused to (stranger) cas' office in search of help#cue cas unable to deny dean help despite being very busy already bc dean seems so earnest#and cas is sick of dealing with dodgy tax evaders so yes he'll help dean#cue a long couple nights of pouring over dean's loose receipts and emails and bank accounts#together bc cas needs dean to help add context and decipher everything#all this to say they bond and at the end of it not only is dean's tax done but#but he also got a friend or date out of it#and cas id a godsend taxwise but dean learned he'd rather be a gardener or raise bees#i'm having lots of thoughts on this#thoughts#fic fodder
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The boys!
I love them so!
#sam and max#sam plush!#max plush#my max is a lil skrunkly cuz ive had him for a while#and ive taken him on road trips#but honestly hes holding up shockingly well#given the all-white fur#and Sam arrived today!#got home from a job interview to find him on my porch#so that was awesome
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i like the implication in 7.03 that sam had to do the research for john and dean, probably to protect him and keep him out of harm's way. which means that he's not necessarily bookish by choice but by circumstance. dad-assigned nerd (sam) and jock (dean)
#liveblogging: supernatural#7.03#this is doing incredible things to my psyche#i can't explain it. i just love the very practical reason as to why sam's so good at research#and why it's his go-to in a hunt. and why he assumes that role so naturally#because he grew up in that environment. he had to get good at research because that was his job in this whole thing#the other nice thing i can intuit from this episode is that dean knows spanish#honestly i think they need to bring out the winchesters' intellectual sides more often#they have got to have some kind of working knowledge of plenty of languages considering the texts they use to hunt things#but they neeeeever talk about this!!! the aesthetic of macho manly fighter dude is more important to the showrunners than the practical#know-how they've absolutely acquired across their lives. it's a crying shame honestly#i hc that both of them can read literary latin and ancient greek with ease#and outside that dean's knowledge is limited to immediate threats. so some regional native american languages like lakota and spanish#while sam would explore outside the immediate necessities and have working knowledge of several more languages. this is what i believe#anyway.#.txt#the winchester gospel#spn posting#spn7
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it's just that dean had such a small world.
#timothy's txts.#okay actually i get why i was having issues with thinking of cas being alive as a saviour to dean's depression#and like. i get what i couldn't put into words before#cas being dead DOES kill dean and keep him from seeing anything worth living for#because dean had a small world. he had hunting and sam and cas#and sam was his own person and like. yeah cas was too but cas was dean's person#and when your whole world is one person and your job. and that person dies...#which is whyyyyyyy dean learning to live is so important to me#not learning how to make his grief smaller but learning how to make the box around it bigger#somethign to think about while i'm writing starvingdog
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saw a poll on here ages ago asking which of the other hobbits would be the best ringbearer and op said merry and i've been thinking about that extensively ever since.
#would he be able to do it? i don't know. but by god would he try.#lotr#i mean obviously no one but frodo COULD do it that was his destiny it was a task set out for him but it's interesting to think about#i think in large part it comes down to the fact that he might not have sam and instead he would have pippin. so.#pippin is arguably just as loyal as sam especially to merry he would happily follow merry to the ends of the earth#i just think. he might not do as good a job as sam.#he'd be great for morale and resilience in the same way sam is but i don't think he's ever had to take a caretaker role ever in his life#and not only might he struggle with that i think merry would struggle with being taken care of especially by pippin#so it would really test their relationship and their own psyches tbh i think it would fuck them up even more than it did frodo and sam#especially pippin he's very sensitive#anyway. i think merry would be a really good ringbearer honestly he's a hugely underrated character.
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just know billy has the biggest beef with detective bailey even before he’s revealed to be the killer.
#& gaslight gatekeep ghostface ( ooc )#billy: do your goddamn job find the killer oh my god#detective bailey: i am doing my job wym#billy: DO IT BETTER#they had a fight during the finale act ok#bailey has beef with billy too besides sam#cause why is billy’s daughter alive while his precious son is dead#he has to pay too billy would understand he’s a father too#WRONG#tbd
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why would dean even have a GED? was it his idea or john’s? (sam’s??) why? idk how hard the test is but like you need to study (plus like register and find the info about it and show up), he’d need to be motivated and i wonder what did that
#like i hope i’m not being ignorant and missing something but#the reasons you’d get a GED are to go to college or get a job right? and like is dean planning on either of those things?#i mean does john have a diploma? id be suprised if john had sam and dean’s birth certificates#so why the GED?#post i made#stanford era#u might b like ‘dean wanted to do it for his personal satisfaction’ i don’t believe this#taking the initiative to go get a ged is too much like admitting he wants something other than hunting#and that’s betrayal!
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