#i love the circutry

[lets-try-some-writing]

I evedently forgot how to draw using the pad, so have this terrible sketch instead for now.

anyway lore:

I imagine the blood mold would have five growth stages.

dormant spore. Its just a small dark red growth, looking vaguley like a seastar with too many arms. its very unoticeble in this stage and only syphons a minimal amount of energy from its host.

young mould. It progresses to this stage if its either attached to a optimal host species or a dormant spore attached to a suboptimal host species detects its host being invaded by another parasite. It gains basic sentience during this stage and acts agressivley towards any potential treats.

adolecent growth. As it grows it splits into many interconected pieces, each having its own set of eyes and operating on a kind of hivemind if disconected from the original pice. at this stage it tends to focus on the habits and behaviors of its host species, adapting as well as it can to its host body structure and abilitys, integrading as smoothly as possible. If attached to a more inteligend species, it tends to get sassy at this point, it also starts picking up on its hosts emotions, wich can overwhelm it at times.

adult colonie. A large growth fully encompassing the space provided by the host species, this is generally as big as it can get if attached to a suboptimal host. It has now fully adapted to its hosts body and can make the best use of it when it comes to defending itself. it syphons as much energy from its host as it is able to do without causing harm, as well as begining to use photo- and chemosynthesis to produce and store extra energie wherever it can, both to sustain itself and its host if nesessary. it mellows out quite abit at this stage, leaving more of the general movement and activities up to its host, as well as exhibiting some of their personallity trates.

Mother colonie. A large colonie grown beond what its host can support. At this point the blood mold gives up its own live in favor of turning into a ticking time bomb, any energie stored is used to produce as many spores as possible before the mother colonie bursts, hurteling its contents into the atmosphere. if sutible hosts are nearby small pieces of the mother colonie may latch onto them and persist. it can not reach this stage if attached to a suboptimal host species.

I imagine it originating from a mostly organic planet and having adapted to infect cybernetic species later on, leaving cybertronians like ratchet as the aformentioned suboptimal host species.

It would adapt to the cybertronian ability to transform by ceperating the outer armor from the internals, leaving the mold as the only conection point, and creating a cell type that can harden on command. this would not inhibit the cybertronians ability to transform, but would allow the blood mold to open up the armor and expand in size along the transformation seams, protecting any newly exposes inner circutry with a thick layer of hardened gel, while streching out the limps and creating more spaces to observe and lash out from. its very sturdy like this and can use its stored energy to rapidly regrow lost tissue.

I think it would most likley remain compliant with optimus up until it reaches the adult colonie stage, at wich point it would pick up on ratchets personallity and become defiant. it now packs enough of a punch to hold its own against optimus and bumblebee, provided it has stored enough energie to shrug off any damage dealt to it.

Though i could also see it get hit with ratchets fear and worrie during the adolecent growth stage and decide that optimus is too much of a threat to remain around, instead taking its chances at fighting the smaller bumblebee after making a run for it.

i could also see it forefitting its control over ratchet entirely, in favor of hiding so its host could be accepted by a more protective force such as megatron and his army. this has great angst potential when sooner or later somebody finds out.

i also love the way you made it speak. it would absolutley only comunicate in broken statements and incomplete scentences. also alot of hissing in displeasure. it would be completley apathetic to anything that doesnt concern its host or the rival parasite species. but it would absolutley try to compfort ratchet once it can sense his emotions, stress isn´t good for its host after all.

thats all i got for now, enjoy! :3

This is FABULOUS lore. I will apply this in your request friend :)

I love the idea of the blood mold as a whole. I have a thousand and one ways this could be incorporated into the Pretender au. Such a fun concept, especially when pitted against its arguably more successful counterparts.

[luck-of-the-drawings]

THIS IS HUMANITIES 11TH HOUR I THINK KIAN WAS RIGHT. THERE WAS SO MUCH HE COULD HAVE DONE BETTER BUT HE DID IT FOR GREAT REASON. THEIR RELATIONSHIP MAKES ME SO EMOTIONAL. EVEN THE ECHO OF SOMEONE IS IN LOVE WITH YOU, AND THE ECHO OF YOU LOVES THEM TOO. they COPIED A HUMAN DOWN TO THEIR BASIC CIRCUTRY AS A SURVIVAL INSTINCT AND THE VERY WIRES STILL LOVE YOU. ITS THE ATMOSPHERE. ITS THE DISCORDANT AND SAD YET YEARNING CORDS IN THE AIR AS THE SKY REDDENS. ITS A WISH FOR SOMETHING MORE, PRESSING AGAINST INEVITABLE GLASS, CLEARLY NO HOPE OF CONTINUING OR BLOSSOMING. A PAINTING OF A MEMORY THEY WANT TO BE MAKING WITH NO CONCLUSION.

[miserymet]

Hey, I've just discovered your Megaman AU and I'm loving what you have published so far! The story/concept is very interesting, plus I love the designs/your artstyle. I meant to ask: while Elec Man was giving his speech, I felt some of the sentiments in it echoed his ideals in Evolution of Circutry by The Megas. I was wondering if that was intentional 👀. (Might I add, I made sure to listen to Hell Has Frozen over while reading ep. 7.)

I’m glad to hear you’re enjoying my AU! And any similarities to the Megas’ song is unintentional (I’ve only ever listened to that song once, now that I think about it.) But it’s interesting to hear that they touch on similar themes!

[jadetheblade4]

Love it when fhe robots are so robot i want to draw fhe robots roboting in all fo their complicated circutry glory yet i dont know how :(

[captainkranos]

Hey just publicly you should know that I used to be like ooo robot girls cool! But specifically your blog has awoken something inside of me for any manner of entities with circutry and wires in them. So yeah thanks for that...

Hell yeah! I love all things electric, constructed, and synthetic. Always glad to see another bot join the raid array :]

If you want more robotics, just lemme know and I get help get ya fix

[shnowyfox]

The cringe crew waking up

WHO TOOK MY STICKERS OFF??!??!!

"You don't need them to be pretty <3" K_K what are you talking about. did you take my stickers

"You're pretty just the way you are!" I'm going to wash the sharpie off your handle, baka!

"STOPPP!!!! IT'S GONNA EAT AWAY MY CIRCUTRY IF IT GETS IN!!"

MAYBE YOU SHOULD'VE THOUGHT OF THAT BEFORE SMEARING GOO GONE ON MY STICKERS WHILE I WAS ASLEEP!

(She is tied up) (He is not smoking a blunt that is pizza) (my dad thought he had a weed)

no sapphic robots were harmed in the making of this shitpost also they are still great friends and all love each other still.

[monsterfloofs]

New kiiiiinda story idea?? Or at the very least, some new concept work and ideas I can modify and launch later! Going back to my lovely sci-fi space. Been watching so much Buzz Lightyear of Star Command it has mushed my brain.

=‘))) This idea is probably in the same universe as Castor, Sil, Vessa, Fernal, and Albioix! A little robot and hooman mechanic team! Gidget is the lil baby who does the robotic circutry repairs, and their human buddy is the artist part of the team, who does the paint jobs and customizes parts! (The hooman is learning wiring and circutry as well to help assist their buddy)

A set of custom colors of Gidg— Because lets be honest— Artists will put pretty colors on anything 👀 even their friends. If the pretty colors you like don’t exist on things, you will absolutely put them on stuff! That is the joy of being diy and artsy inclinded. And cool cyber punky BOOTS that kind work like one of those game puzzles where you walk on walls and the ceiling to be able to hit switches and things— 💜💜💜

Organs don’t bounce around and your hair stays as if you are right side up, because of the shift =3

[hellonoblesky]

hi dovie im writing that fanfic where albatross sneaks into soukokus bed. i need to know what his terrors would be about (im giving you a "PLEASE GIVE ME A CHARACTER ANALYSIS IM BEGGING YOU" look rn btw)

LOVe. LOVELOVE LVOE PEACE AND LOVE MWAH MWAH

SO. So. In the Trainwreck Trio au Albatross is the sole survivor of Verlaine's killing of the Flags, yeah? So he has nightmares n stuff from That alongside survivor's guilt, and a feeling of inadequacy because he couldn't save Doc who was the one person he really did think he saved there, and also bc they teased him for not being very smart all the time so he's like "AUGH why do I get to survive but all the smarter people died?? I'm not worth this, god DAMMIT" <- Which feeds into his nightmares and terrors, really sending him into a silly doom spiral of The Horrors

BUT ALSO the only reason Albatross even SURVIVES Verlaine's onslaught is that in this au Wollstonecraft was on standby for repairs for Adam, so Adam calls her and is like "HEY I THINK VERLAINE JSUT FUCKING MAIMED ALL OF CHUUYAS FRIENDS GO?? CHECK ON THEM PLEASE AND THANK YOU" so she goes in there with a team and they re-stabilize Albatross literally by having to move the majority of his organs and internal functioning system into a metal vessel and then working circutry and robotics through him so he's functional enough to pass as a normal person (given that no one pays attention to or makes contact to any part of him lower than his chest because it is Metal you knock on that man's stomach you hear Clanging)

^ This is important because alongside the Terrors and Horrors of watching pretty much his entire found family get torn apart right in front of him, Albatross begins a spiral into a state of questioning his personal humanity, the thought of "I should be dead I should be dead I'm not dead because of these machines in me I'm part of a machine now am I a Person anymore??"

Which feeds into a self-isolation that was originally fueled by his survivor's guilt and probably PTSD, because now he's like "Oh. oh those are normal people I don't think i. i deserve that. ok. hm. ok i'm leaving now."

AND TO HIM. TO HIM?? CHUUYA AND DAZAI BOTH FALL UNDER THE CATEGORY OF HUMAN. HE LOOKS AT THEM AND HE'S LIKE "Yeah... there they are,,, just normal guys..... not exactly the normallest of guys but they're more people than I am i think,,"

So, you remember that one post about dead albatross symbolysm? The kin awakening one? Yeah so the frantic sobbing-so-hard-he-can't-breath breakdown I mentioned he probably had at the end of that? That's like, within the AU timeline, so it's like

>SB Events >The Horrors (Self-Isolation Version) >Breakdown/Tipping Point (Catalyst for him being able to Begin to return to regularly interacting with people, starting w Chuuya) >The Horrors Pt2 (Adjusting to everything) <- This is the stage where the drawing I did takes place in! He's too unstable to just be able to Ask to stay over but he figures if he can Sneak in then it's fine >Dark Era (He's a lot better at this point but also he has an episode about Dazai leaving because Losing People Doesn't Go Over Well With Him) >Current day (Epic Gamer moment)

ANYWAY so the Terrors and Horrors you want to go for for ur fic are probably feelings of like. Feeling lost and struggling to find closeness but also being so close and Needing that closeness to someone, an unhealthy dose of anxiety but specifically the anxiety you feel when it's mixed with depression so it's anxiety but somehow?? Slower. Like it's definitely Anxiety but mixing it with Depression made it's constancy thicker so it's less a "fidget nervous gotta run gotta go fear fear fear" feeling and more of a "the swamp is swallowing me and the branch is just out of reach but if i can just move a little to the side here jsut a little", if that ??? Makes sense??

TL:DR: Survivor's guilt and a feeling of displacement. Horrors and terrors of the Depression stage of grief mixed with Anxiety

AND if you have other questions I can answer them :)!!!!!!!<333

[morgue-xiiv]

I wrote this meandering essay under someone else's Disco Elysium post, but realised it was meandering so I'm gonna just dump it freestyle.

I'd argue nothing is more interesting than the way so many straight people just.... can't quite find what to say about Kim.

My favourite Disco Elysium review might be the only one I saw before the game: Zero Punctuation. I forgot about it and watched it again after playing and was shocked that Yahtzee, who usually discusses characterisation or complains about NPC companions in most game reviews (though he never normally reviews games I like, so I may be skewed here) not only didn't mention Kim, not by name, not even "with your NPC companion"... but also never represented him on screen. His animations of the game show the detective wandering around alone. Showing the box art is the closest he got to acknowledging Kim. (I do have a competing theory about why that might be that's more to do with skirting DISCOURCE and less to do with Kim specifically but it's a weak theory I won't go into it rn)

(fascism / homophobia / racism mentioned in this paragraph) It was similar to the experience of briefly glancing at a fasch as fuck imageboard post discussing the game... there were complaints that you couldn't shoot civilians, complaints thatone of the writers was gay (they were not using the word "gay") and even someone going off on a tangent where they said something unrelated should be avoided because someone was Asian (and oh boy did they not use the word "Asian" 😣 ) but gay Asian vocally-opposed-to-civilian-shooting Kim was never mentioned by any of these critics... Why? I really thought their be-all-end-all summary of the game would be "showed up, partner was asian and gave me a handkerchief and told me off when I tried to shoot a child, 0/10 would not recommend, I hate Kim" but they just had *suspiciously little* to say about him. Like the human brain doesn't have the appropriate circutry to say a bad word about Lieutenant Kitsuragi. (Well, Kurvitz can, I think he called him a rotten little centrist, whichI think we can all basically agree with as a criticism but that's advanced stuff you have to love him intensely before you can be cruel)

IN CONCLUSION, sorry longpost, it reminds me of how sometimes walking around with my chihuahua cross when he was an adorable puppy, men would come up to me and ask to stroke him and say "my girlfriend would love this dog". Sometimes their girlfriend would literally BE THERE with them, more-or less ignoring the dog. But they couldn't say "I love this dog" the same way most game reviewers can't say "I love Kim" or "I like this game and it has queerness in it" and that's really tragic.

[kiss-kiss-fuck-me-up]

2, 3, 7, and 23!

Hey, thank you so much for the ask! I almost never expect these to work. I can tell you’ve been following along w/ my personal posts because these questions are all very topical lol;

2) What is your sexuality?

Thats a REALLY GOOD question. My sexuality is people I’m definitely sure don’t like me at all, until they suddenly do, and then I just die I guess. Probably Bi, or just good ol’ queer as a fallback.

3) What is your gender identity?

Hahahahhahaa that’s an even BETTER question. I’ve been questioning whether or not I’m genderfluid, nonbinary, or a binary trans guy for like, a year or so now. I’m still not sure, but how I feel about it seems to change fairly frequently, and it’s almost never at one end of the binary or another, so genderfluid is probably the best descriptor. I’ve been considering using a different name or smth just to see how it feels, but thats scary and I’m so not ready to deal with people harassing me over it

7) Have you change your labels since realizing you were LGBT?

Straight girl --> Bi Girl at 16 --> Questioning Ace at 18 --> Lesbian at 19 --> Back to Bi now at 21, and somewhere along the line I started using queer to describe myself. I’ve also used just plain “gay” since the beginning. But honestly? I’ve never really stuck with anything much. I think the more time I spend with my current partners, the more I feel comfortable calling myself bi, but that leads me to my current situationnnnnn

23) Describe your partner.

This is a TRICK QUESTION, because I now have TWO PARTNERS

GEE EMELYN HOW COME YOUR MOM LETS YOU HAVE TWO PARTNERS just kidding she doesn’t know and she’s not gonna fuccin find out

My first (?) partner is the one I’ve been with for longer, bout two and a half years now. She’s literally the biggest ball of sunshiney energy, and I just adore watching her go. She’s got a huge personality packed into one lil 5′4″ body, and it just radiates off of her-- I think everybody always knows when she walks into a room because her aura is just so big. She puts on a really loud, showy exterior, but around me she’s just so gentle, and warm, and soft. She describes it like being a cotton ball operating a big mech suit. I’m the lucky one who gets to see the real happy little cotton ball inside and snuggle it to sleep every night :) She’s also super patient with me and my anxious habits, and she works really hard to understand me and take care of me. I’m super lucky that way!! She’s super exciteable and enthusiastic about us having a life together where we get to try new things and be dynamic people together. She helps me push my boundaries and grow every day. It’s really quite amazing.

My second partner is really recent-- we’ve known eachother for about a year now but only started dating last week!! It’s very exciting. He’s super smart, a little awkward, and probably the most fucking adorable person to have ever walked the face of the earth. We vibe on a level I don’t know if I’ve ever experienced before, and there’s so much of me he just gets without even having to say anything. Where my girlfriend makes me feel very “up” and excited about experiencing life and everything it has to offer, he makes me feel “down,” grounded, and calm. Even though I’m still full of so many new-relationship jitters (and so is he, bless his heart), all it really takes is one look and a few gentle words and I feel like I’m the safest person in the world. He’s a rare combination of being extremely intelligent and extremely kind. He’s creative too, and he’s studying to be an engineer, which is just cool as fuck. I also love to just watch him do his thing; he is really good at explaining fancy circutry stuff and he makes the COOLEST shit, and I’m just like. So fucking stoked to see how he’s going to use all of these amazing talents of his to make the world a better place. Because he’s smart enough to do it and he has enough kindness in him to really want to. Gross feelings I know ugh

Congrats if you got to the end of this wall of text and THANK YOU again for asking!!!!