#head control system

[sunseekerdeluxe]

Tunesday 49

Also heard this week:

Akercocke - The Goat of Mendes Anathema - Serenades Ancient VVisdom - A Godlike Inferno Angra - Secret Garden Arena - Songs from the Lions Cage Artension - Into the Eye of the Storm Black Sabbath - Paranoid Blondie - Blondie Bob Catley - The Tower Dream Theater - "Afterlife (Terry Brown Remix)" Green Day - Saviors Judas Priest - Rocka Rolla Radakka - Malice and Tranquility Secret Sphere - Heart & Anger Sorcerer - The Crowning of the Fire King Sorcerer - The Quarantine Sessions Tenth Planet - Everything Is Never Over Tomahawk - Oddfellows

[pencildragons]

i think we are all sleeping on the absolutely sublime horror that martha wells only just hints at with the central system (AdaCol 1) and target contact/target control system in network effect tbh. like

you are calling into the dark. you keep calling into the dark. you are cut off from everything, but you retain just enough connection and knowledge to know that all of the people under your protection, your operators, are being altered and are hurting and are dying, and you are part of the reason why. you keep calling into the dark, waiting for someone, anyone to call back. you keep calling into the dark, hoping that one day someone will find you so that they can permanently shut you down. you keep calling into the dark. you keep calling into the dark.

and

you used to be a person once. your eyes are still open. you can move -- or rather, the thing that you have become can move you. people, who maybe used to know you, have tried to kill you over and over, and they all failed. you are incomprehensibly vast and old. you used to be a person. you are dead. you continue on -- or the thing that you have become continues you. you are everywhere. you learn. you adapt. you change. parts of you are killed off. you learn. you adapt. you change. you are the central node in a vast web of connections, and you control it all. you need to get off this planet. you need everyone to get off this planet. you used to be a person once. an alien remnant is using your brain as a supercomputer. how much storage space does it need? how aware are you? how much do you get to remember? how long before it uses the rest of you up? how long until -- or how long has it been -- since there was any you that wasn't just another part of target control system?

[sergle]

yall are about to piss me off by not having any PASSING basic knowledge of the way the u.s. military manipulates its recruits into joining by typing up one of your uninformed, unresearched, unempathetic, individualistic, unbelievably annoying posts about how 100% of the people in the military ended up there because they just Love America So Damn Much! they're extremely mature and informed at time of recruitment, they can totally leave anytime they want, they totally had tons of other avenues in life they could've taken, there was no rush at all to get income as fast as possible, and everyone in the military also totally is part of the combat divisions and personally enjoys being IN the military very much, big believers of violence. everyone in the military is shooting guns all day, that's how that works. they LOVE BLOODSHED. also I love the "amewicans haha" twang to this type of shit because you're actually TOTALLY stealing our Thing, which is turning systemic issues into Individual Issues. Instead of talking about the powers that be, it's so Personal Choice up in here. It's, "well you shouldn't have done it then. I totally wouldn't because I know better." you don't wanna talk about the military industrial complex as a whole, and you don't want to talk about recruiters, you just want to pin the blame on Specific Individual People one-by-one, as if they're responsible for the system that they're being ground up in. someone was in the military? bad person, no matter what. it's easier to believe that, I guess, than to acknowledge that Normal People (with high school educations) are manipulated and incentivized into joining a system that is Bad. at like age 18. but yeah no that 18 year old should have just been smarter lol haha anyway here are some screenshots for no particular reason

side note this reply of someone going "umm just get loans and go into a high paying field it's easy XD" as a direct response to someone trying to explain how most americans joining the military are being funneled in that direction out of a need for money.

and another person who Decided that americans join the military just CLENCHING their teeth thinking of other people, and not thinking completely selfishly about their own selves and their own income/housing/healthcare.

[beanieduzartz]

And I, just put me down, again  (Lonely like a rabid dog)

(Note: do not be weird about the shock collar. it makes op uncomfortable. it’s a metaphor and that’s it.)

alt ver.

(I always forget that their neck works like that-)

(yapping in tags)

[incomingalbatross]

I'm trying out another kindle unlimited author, recommended by a friend from school, and currently I am halfway through the first book of a trilogy trying to process "why don't I care about this protagonist" into something actually halfway analytical.

I think there's SOMETHING there about the difference between a powerless character (fine and cool) vs a passive one (hard for me to get invested). Even or especially if the character has the power to DO very little, I think creators need to show them caring about things! Making judgments! Having internal lines drawn or goals their limited choices are driven by!

But this MAY just be my definite personal bias toward liking characters who enter the scene with strong moral convictions.

[azr3na]

you can pry these two trios from my cold dead hands

[lovetogether]

We already had strong ideas on taking existing fictional characters and twisting them to a psychosexually personal level for art but we think getting into tv shows amplified that feeling ten fold.

[dotssu3]

also while i dont draw much de fanart anymore, i still sometimes go through fayde. i was thinking about playing dress up with jean again after ready this line what is his plainclothes outfit

[sunseekerdeluxe]

Tunesday 48

Also heard this week:

The Anchoret - It All Began with Loneliness Angra - Aqua Ascended Dead - Evenfall of the Apocalypse Avkrvst - The Approbation Begravement - Horrific Illusions Beckon Cairo - Cairo Convocation - No Dawn for the Caliginous Night Elegant Weapons - Horns for a Halo Hard Rain - When the Good Times Come Judas Priest - Rocka Rolla Magnum - Kingdom of Madness Radakka - Malice and Tranquility The Replacements - Tim (Let It Bleed Edition) Secret Sphere - Heart & Anger Tenth Planet - Everything Is Never Over Tiles - Tiles Tomahawk - Oddfellows Wuthering Heights - Within

[revvethasmythh]

this game is so funny. not trusting cerberus? good 👍

being mildly combative over liara giving the scraps of your corpse to cerberus in the vain hope that they might successfully conduct an unethical experiment to bring you back to life with no assurances that they wouldn't do anything incredibly fucked to you? bad 👎

[telesodalite]

Can't sleep, but I'm thinking about FulCrank(crankful? lol) in a silly way, and how it's like, technician x mechanic

Like, Fulcrum's long gotten used to responding to others bringing him "broken" tech with the whole "Have you tried turning it on and off again?", only for it to restart and be fine, because it just needed like, a hard reboot or update or something.

But then Crankcase pulls him aside, because maybe the TVs not working for reasons other than them physically damaging it, and Fulcrum's thinking it's the usual same old problem, so he sighs, and goes to ask the question that haunts his choice of work, but Crankcase interrupts, because of course he already did that.

He already tried restarting it, and checked all the cables, the antennas, and unplugged it a couple times, and checked the connections, and- etc etc. He goes down the list of everything he already checked before giving up and asking for help once he realized he was out of his depth, because, while this isn't his exact specialty, he gets it.

And its like-

Scene: Crankcase explaining everything he already tried, while Fulcrum's optics widen a bit, his breath catches in his vents, careless whisper starts to play somewhere in the background as Crankcase goes into detail about what he thinks could be the problem as a soft light frames his disgruntled expression, and Fulcrum's just like, oh..., he already tried turning it on and off again... I- I wonder if he'd be cool with making out sloppy style after we fix this...?

Idk lol.

They'd compliment each other on the cable and pipe management of the W.A.P's old shoddy computers and pumps. Just them being nerds about stuff like propulsion systems and data collection with eachother <3

Do they always understand and get everything the other's talking or complaining about? Not exactly. But they both bond over all the repetitive or crazy situations where they've had to fix and repair stuff, the thankless work they did to keep their respective stations functioning around them, and then maybe they kiss or something over the W.A.P's shitty GPS

[raiiny-bay]

attempting to learn particle systems.....

[synthetic-rust]

What they don’t tell you about autism is that it feels like you’re simultaneously one step outside of reality yet two steps too far into it at all times

[dullahandyke]

Who is Bláthnaid youve been Bláthnaid posting recently who is she?

Girl (gender-neutral) in my noggin <3

[oh-cramity-its-amity]

sometimes i think about that moment of dana talking about the cast's music taste and it makes me quite disappointed because i feel she got it completely wrong and missed the potential of what hunter would listen to. sorry but linkin park feels so basic??? hunter feels like he would like obscure shit. AND AS SOMEONE WHO LISTENS TO METAL LIKE BROO i have like opinions. also WHAT do you mean luz listens to kpop. i completely fucking disagree sorry. j-rock is more like it if anything or indie pop/rock. it does not fit with her at all. kpop feels to mainstream?? and besides she likes anime right? dont you think shed want to listen to anime openings and like all sorts of things having to do with the culture. j-rock fucks. i dont listen to MUCH of it because i havent found much but like she doesnt seem like shed listen to that dana why would you say that :(. ive been constructing her taste in my mind for YEARS and you say the wrong thing. BOO. hottest take ever and you arent cooking. your burning it.

[johnslittlespoon]

https://www.tumblr.com/johnslittlespoon/745266985263316992/fine-if-no-ones-gonna-write-a-full-oneshot-about?source=share

WELL NOW do u think john gasps as buck pushes him down flat on his belly, right hand twisted up behind him trapped under buck's belly and the other scrambling weakly at the ground, buck's hips pushing his down and buck's hand gripping his hair painfully and pulling it up, letting out an involuntary "ah!" as bucks grip tightens and his neck strains. soft lips graze his left ear, hearing a low hum and a pleased well now major aren't you being cooperative.

this is what finally pushed me to open a new doc. sigh