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[amphibianaday]

day 1637

[front-facing-pokemon]

[daily-hanamura]

[astrum99]

Do you think bugs fall in love?

Their small bodies host even tinier brains. Built to crawl through soil and rocks bigger than itself. Running on a simple software bouncing between eat, sleep, fight, flight, and copulate.

V1 is smarter than a bug. It must be. It’s a war machine, so it must be. Its programming is complex enough to fry several motherboards; the internals are heated from constant, unrelenting processing needs. If it updates its optical data intake to any greater degree than these rough, messy polygons, it’d surely perish from the overwhelming information.

V1 is built to kill first, survive second. To be fair, survival would ensure more killing, so it’d be more effective. Moving through the battlefield, culling lives, drawing blood. Perfectly aligned with its programmed objectives, then.

Gabriel is smarter than a bug. He must be. He’s an angel, so he must be. He’s one of the best soldiers in the heavenly realm. Armour and swords glistened with pride and justice. He sees all. He judges all. His loyalty and perfect track record have earned him a high rank within the order. Leaving behind the creaturely "it". His light burns hot and bright within his constitution.

Gabriel is built as a messenger of the Father, then a judge of Hell. To be fair, the role of a judge was assigned to him by the council, so he supposes that his placement can be summed up as the bearer of the divine authority to bring right to all other creatures. Perfectly aligned, then.

Bugs… Well, they’re the same. I suppose. Small beings. Running pre-programmed orders derived from centuries of evolution: eat, sleep, fight, flight, and copulate. No role. No responsibilities.

Bugs are built naturally and fully, unlike humankind; but formed and ready to go within seconds from their births, like machines and angels.

So. Do they live?

When the machine and the angel escape their chains, do they see themselves in bugs?

Bugs are born to live, temporarily, fleetingly, yet live nonetheless. Do they, then, deserve to live, freeing and meaninglessly. No role. No responsibilities.

So. Do bugs love?

Do they learn that they can go beyond their basic structures? Do they see their own reflection in each other’s compound eyes? Do they recognize each other’s bodies, scents, heat? Do they feel the desire for closeness?

To flutter wings like a dance of waltz. To brush antennae like butterfly kisses. To greet and caress and lie next to each other near their death.

To move through the sky in battle, in passion. To clash swords and fists and bullets. To greet and caress and lie next to each other near their death.

The same cells in the same blood coursing beneath the same suit of exoskeletons.

Machine, angel, bug. Boiled down to the barest essence of existence; crisp simplicity.

To live, to love.

[spyxfamilysmol]

[bridgeportbritt]

Happy New Year!

Wishing everyone a happy and healthy new year! This has been quite the year for me! Ending with the birth of my son on December 7th! Life has been crazy lately but extremely rewarding! Starting to get the hang of things which allowed me to work on this little project today! It's late in the day but I'm still proud to have done something! A new year's celebration with our couple of the moment - Ella and Eric! Let's see how 2025 treats me and them, shall we?

[probablygayattorneys]

Been seeing a lot of ‘my lore started here’ posts that only seem to be targeting adults who actually engaged with children’s media when they were young so here’s my version, as a freak who had minimal adult supervision

Also a bonus for those of us who grew up at the knee of our older brothers, watching him play video games that were way too graphic considering our ages

[overx]

"...why the hell is it so damn busy lately? My luck's bad but it's not this bad."

[demidritch]

work has been KILLING me... free me... dear god please free me...

[nebula-award]

Please please PLEASE tell me I’m not the only one who sees the parallels

[jakotsuto]

probably gonna post less these days if at all cause I feel like I’m getting close to my Autism Juice (special interest momentum) running out.

[daily-hanamura]

[fizzytoo]

time for the family to go back home to san sequoia :(

[poomphuripan]

New stills from Q27 of iQIYI and YYDS’s My Stand-In (2024), dir. Pepzi Banchorn Vorasataree & Khom Kongkiat Khomsiri

[ellies-enrichment]

Hey I just want you to know how much I love your Javi P gifsets. They're really beautiful and you often capture my moments not usually giffed. Thank you for your service to fandom! 🫡🤗💛

omg thank youuuu !! im glad you're enjoying them !!🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵 i try to gif every single scene (which sounds insane because it is) because you never know who might want a particular scene so im happy to hear that's not for nothing and there are indeed scenes people want that aren't typically giffed

i must admit it was entirely self-indulgent when i started because mid june i wanted ✨visuals✨for Ezra(bc 1 hour of screen time in prospect isnt enough for me) and i looked all over tumblr and could only find like a handful of Javi P gifsets so i decided to make my own and ive been having a blast making them and filling in the visual gaps for other people who also may want the scenes for show enjoyment, fic, or their own brainrot 😇

[hyena-ref-photos]

Three or four brown hyenas © drmckenzie on iNaturalist