#inconsequential things

[ri-afan]

Okay, you know those inconsequential moments in movies and shows where something is done or said but it doesn’t matter until the Protagonist connects things/uses the info later?

Enter Danny.

This is a small job that he does while working with Clockwork. Danny walks around doing or saying things that might move the time stream to the ‘ideal’ outcome. Does he know how it helps? Nah, just that it does since he knows the slightest change can have big impacts. He doesn’t know exactly how long he’s been doing it in this universe, but it’s something to do.

Tim, the Connector of Dots, has recently caught onto a pattern of things, but he’s not sure what he’s looking at.

[egophiliac]

queen of diamonds, upright + reversed 💎

I've redone this like eighty times, I have to just be done with it now and stop staring at all my mistakes oh no 🫠

[platoapproved]

armand + a few offhand lines that give some insight into how he thinks (imho)

[brushstrokesapocalyptic]

Having now finished reading the Murderbot Diaries, I'm poking through parts of earlier books, and right now I'm thinking a whole lot about This:

I said, “At some point approximately 35,000 hours ago, I was assigned to a contract on RaviHyral Mining Facility Q Station. During that assignment, I went rogue and killed a large number of my clients. My memory of the incident was partially purged.” SecUnit memory purges are always partial, due to the organic parts inside our heads. The purge can’ t wipe memory from organic neural tissue. “I need to know if the incident occurred due to a catastrophic failure of my governor module. That’s what I think happened. But I need to know for sure.” I hesitated, but what the hell, it already knew everything else. “I need to know if I hacked my governor module in order to cause the incident.” […] “Either I killed them due to a malfunction and then hacked the governor module, or I hacked the governor module so I could kill them.”

Now, my assumption the first go around was always that the sequence of events went something like Mass murder happens > Memory purged > Governor hacked. Something along the lines of Murderbot waking up with all its digital memories gone but its meatbrain still screaming about the horrors, to which it responds by borking the governor module. And I've seen one or two other posts that seem to make the same general assumption.

But that can't be the case, because if it happened after the purge then Murderbot would remember it. It would have a clear, cold-hard-facts record of "this is the moment I deactivated my governor module" and this whole passage wouldn't be a question. So it can only be Mass murder happens > Governor hacked > Memory purged.

Now, we don't know anything at all about the incident and the following hack, apart from what Murderbot remembers and learns. It's possible there was some sort of gap— The company picks Murderbot out of the bloodbath, assesses the malfunctioning SecUnit for a little while (during which it hacks the governor module), and then decides to wipe it.

Just as likely (and IMO more compelling) is the possibility that Murderbot hacked it during the incident. SecUnit with a particular proclivity towards hacking recognizes that something is VERY WRONG with its governor module, it does not want to be doing all this murder, it hacks the module and shuts down due to a combination of physical damage and mental distress.

Then it wakes up with no cold-hard-data type memories, just a borked governor module and the account of its squishy meatparts to go on. It's pretty sure it knows what happened, at least in the broad strokes. But four years later, with the horrors no longer freshly screaming in its ear, it can't quite be sure.

[amberastra]

Random idea snippet that doesn't really fit into my current time travel fic:

S5 jmart travel back to their S1 bodies and are still trying to keep both the time travel and their relationship secret from everyone as they figure out what they actually want to do. Somehow (Tim) the idea of doing an escape room as a team bonding activity gets suggested, and while s1 Jon would have just scoffed at the idea, S5 Jon is surprisingly okay with it (he missed Tim and Sasha too much to really consider saying no). They decide to split into teams and see which pair can beat their room faster, Tim and Sasha vs Jon and Martin (From Tim and Sasha's perspective it's all really to help the other two start getting along, they've been more polite at work recently and Jon hasn't said anything excessively mean in a couple of weeks so they probably won't kill each other when locked in a room together).

If they'd actually been their S1 selves they likely wouldn't succeed, Jon would think it's too cheesy and stupid and Martin would be too nervous to actually offer any suggestions. It's still cheesy and stupid, but s5 Martin finds it charming, and s5 Jon finds it charming that Martin finds it charming (not that that stops him from making fun of everything even as he himself gets way too into it). They're both very clever in their own ways and would pick up on clues the other might not notice, and they genuinely work well together, especially when the stakes are as low as "our coworkers will tease us if we don't solve this stupid puzzle"

They bicker the whole time and it's the most fun either of them have had in ages

Tim and Sasha are utterly dismayed to find that Jon and Martin solved their room a good minute before they did

[shorlinesorrows]

here is ur daily reminder that Kevin Day leaving the cult that raised him was never selfish

thx send post x

[rbtlvr]

chat i think i might be cooking with this (hugemassive spoilers for both games :thumbsup:)

[mychemicalweevil]

I’m back on my disability in tlt soapbox. thinking about harrow and the bones she wears, a completely personalized exoskeleton made for both aesthetics and functionality. I love that something we often think of as purely medical (like splints or braces) can also be a type of adornment. people are achieving this amazingly irl (for a great example, look up the alternative limb project) and this is why looking at disability in tlt is worthwhile to me. I think about harrow differently when I notice how she accommodates herself physically and also uses that to be a creepy little shit. good for her!

(all this to say I will be trying to find a way to make my ring splints look like bones. or at least gothic.)

[sleepanonymous]

New hand photo of Vessel just dropped (jk its from 2017)

[martianbugsbunny]

ngl one of Rick Riordan's weirdest choices was not having Blitz and Hearth be married. like Richard they're married, they have more chemistry and are more natural and at ease with each other than almost any other Riordanverse characters, they're not made for each other's environments but they both have ways to get around it when they need to and they're both more comfortable mentally in Midgard's middle ground anyway, they're outcasts in their societies, they see the strengths and beauties in each other that nobody else does

literally in every way they're the couple ever

[rottmnt-residuum]

the asks will be scheduled for halloween, but it's greatly appreciated if you send them before then -> Co-Authors Ask Box <-

[webothblackedout]

i don’t remember who but at least one of sam nivola/patrick schwarzenegger (although i would guess sam just based on the tone of a lot of his comments) has said they think lochlan and saxon just never really talk about what happened again and their relationship never rebuilds but i just simply do not think this is true. i think there has to be a breaking point. and i think the text supports this; even after the “let’s just drop this forever” conversation, saxon and lochlan still look at each other knowingly when tim mentions the lack of trauma in their family’s lives during the murder piña colada toast. that’s not “dropping it forever”! and the fact that it’s not even a full day before they’re acknowledging it again to each other tells me that this breaking point isn’t going to take a very long time to reach. i give them like a month at most before they’re tearfully making out in their shared room at the holiday inn express or wherever they’re staying post canon

[tvlandofficiall]

revisiting ch1 for the anniversary and one thing that's always stuck out to me is the couple of times darkness is associated with being able to "see the way". i don't know if it means anything or if it's just me reading a bit too much into some flavor text but if it does mean anything i definitely think it has something to do with how, like how venturing further into the darkness reveals the truth of what's hidden there (the switch in the ringaround puzzle room or the path to a key, for example), entering the dark worlds themselves reveals the hidden truth of the objects of the light world to us and the lightners — that they're not just ordinary objects, but living beings. the darker it gets, the more the whole of these worlds and how they are connected is revealed to us.

[blueskittlesart]

i can't believe haters are getting on you for not liking people making LESBIAN ART about yaoi. again. hasnt this already happened like they have a block button too

i am trapped in my own personal little tumblr time loop of sorts where every 2 months people remember i have the opinions that i have literally always had and they get mad at me about it all over again

[crazyness-overpowers]

haymitch giving katniss the sleep syrup to drug peeta so she could get medicine to save his life when both of katniss’ parents drugged haymitch with sleep syrup to stop him from doing anything too brash the day his family died is actually super okay. thanks for asking.

[beatcroc]

something about perspective, representation, or finding beauty in imperfection, i don't know. i mostly just wanted to say that fake pep looks like shitty ice cream.