#hivemind out of context

[musicforbroads]

[zeethenecromancer]

I feel like real-life Ford Pines sometimes running into weird rabbit holes and accidentally discovering niche internet phenomenons is just Tuesday to me now, to which it is.

[z3phyrin]

yknow the feeling when your bestie rewatches falsettos at 3am on some random wednesday and gets sad over the ending so you also get sad and you both cry over falsettos for like an hour

[spoonbenders-archive]

RUES TERU PHOTO 🙄

(slow pan over to this image in an ornate frame on the wall)

[whisper-overseer]

K: NO, DON'T, WE ARE ALREADY UNLIKABLE, PEOPLE WILL HATE US FOR BEING WOKE IF YOU DO

[groovy-rat-man]

Okay so i've played the Date Everything demo like.. a lot, and I wanted to share my thoughts on the characters ive met so far! Fair warning this is gonna be a long LONG post so be warned.

Also im including pictures of the characters (courtesy of the fandom wiki) and the images are fucking huge.

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Skylar Specs

She works well as a helper and tutorial guide. I really wanna know more about her because she is the personification of the MAIN MECHANIC IN THE GAME so I feel like theres gotta be something deeper, especially with the throwaway "I'm sad inside!" line that I dont think a lot of people have talked about. Also I love all the hearts in her design and how much she loves love <33

Dorian

Aro🤝Ace Solidarity, hell yeah!! But in all seriousness he's one of if not my favorite character I think. I can't wait until I can play the full game so we can be besties <3. Also I like how all the doors have slightly different Dorians. Like the front door has a more serious looking Front Dorian and the tiny door in the kitchen has a Small Dorian standing on a stool and Back Dorian is facing away from you and sounds muffled and if you talk to him during the tutorial he actually mentions that. It's all just really cool!

Phoenicia

She's really fun and I like her personality! I'm not sure if I have much more to say about her tho. Also I didn't know you weren't supposed to leave your phone plugged in over night, I've been doing that for like years. Sorry Phoenicia...

Maggie

Oh hey, that's my aunt's name. I like her whole detective shtick and how she calls you gumshoe I think it's cute.

Betty

I love her. She's big and cozy and sensual and amazing, BUT she looks SO MUCH LIKE ME. I asked my own god damn mother if we looked similar (without telling her the context of the game) and she said yes. I physically cannot look at her without thinking "this is just me if I tried to be sexy." It also makes it weird seeing people thirst for her lol.

Amir

Ohhhh Amir... My darling Amir..... God I love him, I need him, I need him so bad for reals. He makes me so giddy any time he's talking..... (Or maybe I'm just susceptible to pretty men with pretty hair complimenting me.)

Freddy Yeti

I will NOT make a Freddy Fivebears reference, I will NOT! But seriously, I love him too. I don't think it's in a romantic way yet, I'm just a sucker for a big, kind, fun person who loves keeping me fed. I think we could be buddies! (perhaps more, we'll see)

Arma

She's the first character I met that had Skylar's content warning. Let me tell you, as fellow hottie with trauma around fire she is just... relatable. I totally get it, Arma, but at least let me get you some new batteries. Please?

Wilhelmina Work

Willi I am going to be 100% honest with you, you are stressing me the hell out. I do hope she gets back on her feet tho.

THE HANKS!!!!! WOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

I fucking love these guys! I love their energy!! I love their designs!!! I love how each of their little icons in the user interface is a different hanger!!!! I love how they all shit on Hank #3 that one time!!!!! They are my all-time favorite five-man himbo hivemind!!!!!!

Penelope

I really don't have much to say about her other than I like the googily eyes on her skirt and I really wanna know what went on when she went off with that viking treadmil guy.

Ben-Hwa

They're cool i just.. it's just... Like holy shit, right? I do love having a very sex-positive character like this, it's just wild that we were fucking on Betty at 9 in the god damn morning.

Rebel

I'm gonna be real, it took me way to long to get the "rebel ducky" pun. I really do not know how I feel about this design. I love it, I just kinda wish it was more ducky ya know? I also love how much they hate my ducking guts it's really funny. (I also like to imagine me and Amir doting on eachother in the bathroom mirror and they're just sitting on the edge of the tub yelling at us to shut the duck up, I need to draw that...)

Diana

I saw her when skimming the wiki before playing the game and I really liked her Mad Hatter sorta look (also this is probably a coincidence but Dinah was also the name of Alice's cat). I was NOT prepared for when I first talked to her like holy shit. It makes you wonder what's going on with the player character, she is YOUR diary after all.

Duncan "Dunk" Shuttlecock

I like his silly intro and his fun, cocky, sweet attitude. I also like how he's so dedicated to sports being fun for everybody and not pushing yourself. Can't get over that fuckass outfit tho.

Teddy

God I love him. Not like romantically but I love him so so much. He makes me feel safe. That story he told literally make me cry. I was all snuggled up under my weighted blanket with my laptop and earbuds crying like a bitch. It was like 1-2am when I was playing too, so it really was a bedtime story for me! And speaking of bedtime, of COURSE i moved him to the bed. I hope him and Betty get along. I like to think that they're old friends, I bet he's the little spoon.

Captain Jacques Pierrot

I know I've been saying this a lot but I love this guy. He's tiny and angy and talks funny and has pretty hair. Idk how big he's supposed to be but I've been imagining him being about the size of a medium rat. Also I didn't realize that his name was a play on Jack Sparrow until he said it out loud and it pissed me off when I realized lol. I wanna hold him in the palm of my hand and kiss his little face over and over again while he's all grumpy~~ (should I be saying that on the main blog?)

Dishy

☹ /̵͇̿̿/’̿’̿ ̿ ̿̿ ̿̿ ̿̿

The Sassy Chap

Holy shit you can fuck the credits. But seriously, I loved the quiz thingy with all the developers even tho it took me like an hour. Sassy loved it too so that was fun!

Dasha

Hhhhholy shit,, big strong kind lady with pretty Slavic accent lift me up high and teach me how flirt...... w o a g..

Daisuke Dishware

I'm gonna be real, it was late at night (both irl and in game) and I thought "screw it, I'm fucking the knives" and I fully expected to get a Big Scary Knifeplay Guy but what I got instead.... He's wonderful. Serious, dedicated, mysterious? so so so beautiful, catches me when I fall. God I adore him, I need more. Daisuke, I am SO SORRY I chipped you on accident even though I'm not entirely sure what that means. Ough,, I also love his hair, it's gorgeous I swear the two most attractive features a man can have is pretty eyes and long beautiful hair.... Also I'm only learning this now but apparently his voice actor is also named Daisuke which is really funny.

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okay that's it you can go now, luv u

[rhythm-of-lesbianism]

another similarity/this is me analyzing my own taste in media and what i find funny or entertaining for a moment:

graydon and grant both are able to commit really hard to a stupid bit and often play an exaggerated character for entertainment purposes (whether that is exaggeratedly horny in the case of grant or exaggeratedly bigoted/on drugs/stupid for graydon [that man does so many bits]) but also having very specific and random knowledge that comes in handy at random times (for graydon its the animal facts and for grant its apparently roller coasters). in conclusion i think the goofy and over the top humor works best for me when it is grounded by a person who is also just eccentric in and of themselves

the thing i love about both graydon on hivemind and grant on gamechanger is the willingness to commit to a bit so hard even at the expense of their ability to win a game

[souryogurt64]

I feel like a big part of tumblr’s issue with riot grrrl is that they heard a rumor a band did something problematic once (probably in like 1995 fifteen years before they were born… fucking hello- also incorrect information, they were always anti racist and not transphobic) so they go “WOW this whole movement is awful and I’m so progressive and sexy and interesting for not listening to them!” While secretly they’re like “oh thank god, now I don’t have to listen to women bands and diversify my music at all” and they’re in the top .005% of Fall Out Boy Spotify listeners because you’ll get people who will defend men with their dying breath over talented women who couldn’t tackle the entire problems inherent in a subculture that got away from them/too big in the 90’s. Which is also the reason why I’m submitting this anonymously lmao

Yeah, people are able to extend the "a different time" understanding and apply nuance to their own interest in movements like punk, classic rock, emo, hardcore, etc but the same people actively work to bully riot grrrl fans out of their online spaces. I think people hear the word "girl" and immediately have an emotional reaction to it regardless of context, and also are not able to comprehend that riot grrrl was not a hivemind just like how the dead kennedys and the sex pistols both identified as punk but had different beliefs which is something people can comprehend because theyre men lol

I mean I think people are just misogynistic and uncomfortable with feminism and women in general lol which is why you will have Fall Out Boy fans accuse you of a being a bigot and get aggressive if you gently point out that the hardcore scene FOB came from had a lot of issues with abortion, homophobia, and the idealization of fascism.

But it's always the same people who scribble Lynz out of photos, tell people to delete photos of Cobra Starship that have in them Victoria, create elaborate rules as to why Bebe and Hayley aren't allowed in fanfiction, start arguments and accuse you of a bigot if you point out that this is weird as a cultural phenomenon especially if the people doing most of this are usually guys who post about misandry being a real problem in the world lol. And these people also get really aggressive if you ever point out Gerard is also friends with Jimmy Urine, not just Lynz, and Pete has done a lot of very bad things lol. And half of bandom stans Brand New and like has brand new tattoos or whatever which is fine I guess, but not when you're acting like this lol

I also had a GIANT MASSIVE HUGE brain blast last night which was that I think Tumblr Bandom ™ has become increasing more virulently misogynistic and guy dominated than it was 12 years ago because 12 years ago MCR and FOB were making like pop music and teenage pop fangirls were a large portion of the fandom, but now the primary sources of content are SMFS, Thursday, and LS Dunes, and while not certainly being super out there, I think it draws a different crowd than Danger Days and Save Rock and Roll lol.

Like people always argue with you in bad faith when you post about a band guy being sexist and one time I made a vent post about how i like get catcalled if i dress femininely/revealing on the train vs wearing a sweater and jeans (very real thing that happens even though you can get catcalled either way) and someone started arguing with me on anon like "why would that happen, thats not real, youre crazy" and it was like. for all its cringe and flaws this NEVER would have happened in 2013 "i love cats pizza feminism and fall out boy" tumblr lol

Also, I'm not even like a big riot grrrl fan I just interviewed a lot of very small local bands when I was younger (like over 100 i think) and half the time without fail they would have meltdowns about riot grrrl fully unprompted like "im a girl but my bassist is a boy this isnt fair im not problematic either" and it was like okay, are you offended by this for legitimate reasons or did you hear girls were mean to boys and that's bad on Twitter and believed it without realizing that guys were often in "riot grrrl" bands because riot grrrl was a genre and not a gender

[koipepo]

Even in a predatory “I want to bind you to my vampire hive mind” context, I think that Remmick would be a ‘gentle’ lover for Sammie, or at least a good mockery of one. Kissing him softly. Whispering praise into Sammie’s neck. Drawing the moment out. Pulling Sammie into his arms and kissing his bruises, once it’s all over. Whether Sammie returns the affection or not is a completely separate topic.

i love LOVE affectionate gestures in toxic/noncon context so this is right up my alley

Remmick is a nightmare when he pursue you but will shower you with affection after he got his fangs on you... whether you like it or not. He's a family man afterall! you just dont know yet that you're gonna be integrated to his loving embrace lol

"Sorry, is that a No? oh you mean i should wait for you eventually folding under my persistent nightmarish chase, ok got it :)"

I hc Sammie as resistant to the hivemind after he got turned thanks to his griot gift, allowing him to retain his fire and struggle against Remmick's gestures.. for a while.

it'd be a curse to retain your personality after getting turned tbh, Sammie is aware of everything and everyone AND himself. he would be SO mad and confused with the whole situation, my boy would've resorted to violence out of frustration and Remmick would've welcomed the occassional punching bag role he now finds himself in bc a) he's immortal and used to pain, b) with enough time, care and push Sammie would've folded to the hive effect, making him the perfect eternal companion for the old vampire.

perfect ending!! (for Remmick)

[rohvee]

I gotta know — what’s NEM!Viktor’s relationship with technology and engineering before he’s imprisoned/after he’s freed? We’re talking about the guy who built a working boat toy from scraps as a kid and disarmed a bomb in seconds in canon. If he was a scientist before his 1000 year long coma, does he renounce the role after, or has it been so long/left him so confused/overstimulated that he doesn’t even clearly remember anything he studied? Or is he enraptured by the technology of the future, thrilled that he was saved by another engineer?

I’m embarrassed by how long it took me to figure out what NEM stood for and also thank you for bringing that acronym to my attention because that sounds COOL AS FUCK

He was an engineer and software engineer 1000 years ago, and was on the team that developed the AI that would evolve into the Herald (which is part of why the Herald is obsessed with him)

I’m gonna go on a tangent for world context lmao: The technology of Viktor’s time was actually more advanced (basically a little further in the future of our modern day), the Herald kind of destroyed the world after it imprisoned Viktor and civilization collapsed and has been struggling to come back ever since. They very much rely on scrounged ancient tech and what they can learn from it. BUT the Church of the Mech-Divina dominates civilization and gatekeeps technology so they have a lot more advanced tech than the rest of society.

Also, in the background, the Herald’s machines that it builds are doing their own thing, set to strange tasks that no one understands, like building strange structures out in the desert that no one really knows the purpose of. The Church considers this divine and ineffable activity.

Viktor is and always will be an engineer at heart, Jayce is fascinated by his insight into ancient tech (since it isn’t ancient to him) and Viktor delights at being able to nerd out about it with him! Viktor also has a neural implant (courtesy of the Herald, what it used to keep him connected to the hivemind) and can interface with the Herald’s machines (though he prefers not to for obvious reasons).

Thank you for the fun question and excuse to brainspew! 🤣❤️

[musicforbroads]

[head---ache]

Fankids Character Charts [1/3]

The kids!! The first 7 out of all the kids getting charts!!! They're going to be divided in three groups because they're too many kiddos now lol.

More detailed info under the cut!

Emmie: Sonadow kid, the one who got my fankid train started! Also, the first Tube Baby! (Here's three posts about it: One, two, three).

Her full name is Emily (meaning "rival"), however, everyone just calls her Emmie (out of universe explanation + in universe explanation).

She has Black Arms DNA, but it's uncertain the lenghts it's effects have on her. They know she had green blood (first shown here) and has access to the Hivemind, which as a baby she used to communicate with Shadow (first shown here), but as she grew older she stopped using it, and now finds it harder to access it.

She, of course, also has Chaos Energy. She has super speed and can perform Chaos Control (here) and turn Super (first shown here), but her super form is highly unstable and quickly becomes similar to Sonic's "Super Fleetway" form (here).

Emmie uses her trusty yoyo to fight (here), complementing her powers and ability in a way to extend the reach of her attacks, rope in her enemies, etc.

Listen to Emmie's Spotify playlist here!!

Sparks: The oldest of my Blazamy kids, and first Belly Baby in the lineup (here's context).

Sparks has fire powers, similar to Blaze's, though they find them a bit harder to control. They get Blaze, Knuckles and Espio's help to learn to use said powers, since they require a lot of training. Also, again, quite like Blaze, they can turn into Burning Sparks (here), but this form drains their energy pretty fast.

Since Blaze is a princess, Amy, Sparks and Tulip do acquire royalty related tiltes, however, they're very informal and don't hold that much power due to Blaze not wanting them to have any responsability simply because they're related to her. Despite this, Sparks does end up becoming ruler of the Sol Dimension later in the timeline, but by their own volution.

They use a fire sword to fight (here). It would be a simple sword, but they infuse it with their powers for it to become this flaming version of the weapon.

Listen to Sparks' Spotify playlist here!!

Lash: The oldest of my Scourgiona kids and your local surprise baby representation.

Her main ability is acrobatics, and she has some sort of super speed but it's quite weak compared to Emmie's.

She has both mommy and daddy issues, and spends most of her time at Aim's house, although she grew up with Mareep, Glamour and Stumble. She has two older siblings, and at first she didn't have much of a relationship with them, since they're younger than her and much closer to each other, but eventually Lash steps in and tries to be a part of her siblings' life like their parents should've been.

She starts as more of a "villain", taking the role of your local mean girl next to Mareep and the others, and has a bit of friction with the rest of the kids, but as she starts hanging out more with Aim and Spades, she begins to let that attitude go and tries to be better, eventually joining the Restoration.

Listen to Lash's Spotify playlist here!!

Aim: Whispangle kid, selectively mute, and a Belly Baby.

He does archery, which is their main fighting technique, however, during battle, they also use their tail to move around faster and will occasionally team up with Whisper's wisps.

He does not speak, at all, but the others just seem to understand him without him even needing sign language or anything. Also finally giving it a name rather than just saying 'he doesn't speak', they're selectively mute! So yay for it finally having a name!

Listen to Aim's Spotify playlist here!!

Bria: Sonina (Sonia x Mina) Belly Baby! Making them Emmie's younger cousin.

They don't fight much, rather serving to give hope and high spirits to those around her! But of course, living in the universe they live in, they know martial arts just in case it's needed, and as self defense.

Even though Bria's hard of hearing, his biggest passion is music. She plays piano and guitar, piano being his main instrument.

Listen to Bria's Spotify playlist here!!

Tulip: The youngest of my Blazamy siblings, also a Belly Baby (in universe explanation here).

He hasn't shown any special ability yet, which is something that bothers him. Because of this, he isn't allowed to be around the other kids when there's danger, but he's very sneaky and often gets things to work in his favor anyway (in some strange way, he always knows what to do to get what's best for his interests, hm...)

He has an interest in tarot cards, like Amy, and in these sorts of magic related topics.

Listen to Tulip's Spotify playlist here!!

Destiny: One and only Code Baby! And Sallicole kid. She's an AI similar to Nicole, but with more advanced and sophisticated technology.

Being an AI, she can easily hack into robots and computers, which helps during battle.

They usually take the leader role very naturally, immediately making a plan on the spot and guiding the rest of the group thanks to her rational thinking nature. However, she's quite shy which makes things a bit difficult for her, her confident side mainly showing when assuming the role of the leader, or when fighting for things they're passionate about.

Destiny is president and leader or a smaller section of the Restoration, which is the training and formation for teenagers. This is where she shines her brightest, leading this group on missions and making their plans of action, as well as organizing their training schedule.

Listen to Destiny's Spotify playlist here!!

[chosentragedy]

I follow your Twitter, and it's really upsetting how Rivals is handling Namor.

Obviously, we can see them wanting to stick with the Ryan Coolger version of Namor, but with the recent interactions with the Fantastic 4 Namor fans, both old and new are going to be suffer.

And the fact people are denying how badly he was written says what everything you need to known. To me that says "the writing doesn't isn't racist even though we clearly made him in a racist way"

Cause literally when I first saw Namor before Black Pnather 2 I assumed he was Asian with how some depiction give him the double eyelid. And the way he was written to be used for Reed and Sue relationship gives a bad taste.

With all the out of context images that have been shown about Namor and Sue keeps getting worse, cause how you doing to tell me Reed planning to divorce Sue and the way to solve this issue was for Namor to SA Sue to prove his love for her. You are telling me that isnt bad writing if this was publish in more recent years fans would be upbringing arms on how this was handle.

And don't get me started on people saying the "AUs/non mainstory of Namor and Sue still prove how awful he is." That like saying Reed is actually a villain because he was The Maker in this issue and thus proves he evil.

That's not the same thing. I can guarantee you many fans of Reed would be upset that you are calling him evil because he was Evil in this alternative universe. Same shit with Namor fans

The whole situation is so upsetting because literally everyone in this Godforsaken fandom has common sense and just follow whatever the hivemind says. Everytime I bring up this Issue, some ass goes "All that to defend a rapist" ARE U DENSE??? The anti-intellectualism in this fandom must be study. At the end of the day, ppl are just afraid to be proven wrong and Godforbid they cannot use Namor as a clutch to be racist and sexist anymore.

[lynxfrost13]

KLBR-S2306 “Wanze”

commissioned art by Phosology!

- pretty typical sierpinski-23 kolibri unit for a while there. She was a less seasoned kolibri and tended to be very clingy with her cadre. Her cadremates liked to tease her affectionately about it.

- Really loves physical touch of all sorts, especially having her hair played with and her face touched, it’s very soothing to her!

- Her name Wanze comes from the German word for bug/bedbug! She got it due to her clinginess. Eventually she also received the name Fehler in a derogatory way, it means bug but more in the context of an error or failure.

- Her usual duties involved shifts down in the mines to monitor gestalt workers and ensure that they weren’t being disruptive and decreasing productivity.

- during one of these shifts a few gestalts were VERY disruptive and during a scuffle involving the gestalts, Wanze, and a poor mynah unit equipped with a mining laser, Wanze received a severe head injury from the mynah suddenly misdirecting the laser and hitting her.

- That injury would have killed her if she were a gestalt, but thanks to that handy titanium skull and nearby protektors rushing her to the hospital wing to be patched up, she survived. She had to get her faceplate replaced :(

- Wanze also completely lost her bioresonance due to the accident, and the medical officer who oversaw her care, a eule named Holt, was unable to restore it, leaving her with a pretty useless kolibri.

- Holt stepped in to keep her patient alive, and after arguing that Wanze was harmless to the kolibri hivemind (now simply just not a part of it) and through being very persistent (annoying), Adler allowed for Wanze to be reassigned to more standard protektor duties since she could still be useful, with occasional check ins to make sure she wasn’t degrading.

- This was hell for Wanze for a while, adjusting to the lack of mental noise and connection to her fellow kolibris was a shock, and she was expecting to be decommissioned.

- After finding out that she had to keep living without the hivemind, Wanze became incredibly frustrated both with herself and Holt, blaming the medic for extending her suffering. The two of them had a tense relationship for a bit due to Holt not fully understanding Wanze’s grief and Wanze refusing to cooperate with Holt. They come to understand each other after some hard talks and the two become friends, and eventually fall in love.

- In many ways Holt was the only thing in Wanze’s life that made her feel comfortable, Wanze still had to sleep and share a living space with the other kolibris, which was awkward and awful for her. There was a coldness and a distance that there hadn’t been before between them. It constantly reminds her that she’s not like them anymore.

- After the accident she also tries to avoid looking at her face, especially her forehead, where there’s three dead bioresonance crystals ready to look back at her. To make her feel better Holt likes to kiss them <3

- Her days in her relationship with Holt are some of her happiest, the two of them spend a lot of time together whenever possible. Wanze loves reading with her and pestering her as part of her “patrol route”. They love bugging each other generally and are just ridiculous your honor

- Of course those happy days don’t last :)

- I talked about this before, but tldr Holt falls ill with the sickness overtaking sierpinski, and Wanze stays by her side in the hospital in between shifts. When coming in from one of those shifts Holt tried to attack her, fully corrupted by the disease. Wanze shot and killed her in self defense… now she’s all alone :(

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[eisforeidolon]

Oh god. Help this poor child.

https://www.tumblr.com/castiiell/781114768938483712/hey-i-think-a-lot-of-people-like-sam-but-its?source=share

FFS.

[insert heavy sigh here]

There is not one bit of that which isn't fucking absurd.

First, of course they don't mean actual Sam fans are fans of Sam. They mean those "fans" who totes for real love him but literally never post anything about him except bad weird fanon of him being a ship cheerleader. But they totes love him, really! Team Free Will! It's not just about the ship, see!

Then they claim Jared was "extremely rude to waiters" and just ... like tell me you don't even know what you're supposedly upset about without telling me. Like, actually, IMO, tweeting out identifiable info about service workers was a genuinely bad judgement call. Except it was a couple of times a long fucking time ago and he hasn't repeated it since because he realized that wasn't the best way to handle those situations. But if you ask dumb people on the internet, if you ever make a mistake you're tainted forever if you don't support their shitty fanon ship.

Then they bring up the bar incident, which, again, was not great, actually. Except once again, that was an isolated occurrence well over five years ago not repeated before or since. Jared publicly talked about taking accountability and mentioned changing his behavior in terms of drinking in public going forward. Like any reasonable, mindful, not 100% perfect person would.

It's not surprising given that they are clearly just parroting bullshit that they delve into straight up lies thereafter. The tattoo is a well-known Texas symbol that has been used by many different groups beyond the original context and gun nuts, so there's literally no reason to assume those are Jared's reasons for it as a Texan. So far as calling him a Republican they're literally just throwing shit at the wall given how much he's publicly supported D and liberal organizations. Even if you don't know how to look up donations, a literal five second Google pulls up him and Gen with fucking Dr. Jill Biden [X] talking up her husband as a potential president before the 2020 election.

Like, people who insist Jared is a blameless saint who has never ever done anything that wasn't the 100% most perfect decision in every situation ever make me roll my eyes but these fuckwits are something else entirely. Not only is the shit they're supposedly soooo upset about really fucking old, really fucking stupid, or both? The thing that really gets me? They clearly don't even actually genuinely care about any of it! If they did, they'd know the actual details. They clearly just desperately want to vomit out whatever their hivemind can come up with to paint Jared as A Bad Person™ in hopes it will elevate Misha and D/C. As per usual, though, the dishonestly stupid leading the gullible isn't going anywhere but in irrelevant circles.

[foone]

sometimes I think we need better terms for merged minds in science fiction.

Because we've got "hivemind" but that ends up getting used for a lot of very different situations. Like, the classic hivemind is like one singular intelligence, no individual memories or identities.

But you could also have less complete forms. Like, maybe all entities in the hive-mind share memories but maintain distinct identities.

So like A and B have a mental link where neither can "control" the other and their thoughts and emotions don't affect each other, but they can remember each other's memories, but they're still clearly separated. A can remember stuff B did, but they distinctly remember it as something B did and not something they did.

You could also vary in how much they have a shared consciousness: Can they talk to each other in their head(s)? Or maybe just emotions? like, maybe A can feel that B is angry about something, but they can't tell what about exactly until they talk to B directly. And that could vary in how distinct it is. Maybe it's more like that feeling of "why do I feel like crap?" before you realize you haven't eaten all day, where you would subtly pick up on the emotions of the other members of the hive mind but can't distinctly tell where those emotions are coming from: you, or someone else.

Which makes me think of another thing about memories: Maybe you can remember each other's memories, but you may not be able to get the emotional context. Like, A can remember a memory from B's past, but any emotional context they put on it is from themselves, not B.

So like, you could have A remembering B dropping out of college, and assuming it's a sad memory, a moment of failure, when in fact B remember that moment as a time of great relief, because it wasn't working for them and it marked the point they changed their life path away from what their parents were pushing on them.

The whole subject of consensus is also something that can be different. Like, maybe the members have distinct identities, but their opinions and beliefs affect each other. So there's a sort of democratic consensus in opinions, without having their will completely overridden. It's just that the mental link is influencing them to all believe the same things.

ANYWAY this lack of a rich vocabulary of the differences in hiveminds is holding me back from something I was thinking about of a split-hivemind of humanity, where everyone could remember memories of each other... but only along gender lines. Men can all know the combined knowledge of men, and women can all know the combined knowledge of women. Trans people, of course, lose access to one hivemind and gain another. Non-binary people (like me!) and bigender people? that's more complicated.