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[unproduciblesmackdown]

the quiet adoption subplot affects me

[the-innefable-idiot]

breaking news: the mafia show about people who beat up and kill innocent people for money is Problematic® and not Wholesome™

[coquelicoq]

do u ever think about how. like.

when murderbot had just borked its governor module, it was, for the first time, confronted with decisions like "can i help this person, or will that give me away?" and "if i follow this order (in order to protect my secret) and something bad happens, is it my fault because i could have said no?" it was constantly having to weigh the wellbeing of its clients against its own safety, right?

enter sanctuary moon, a world full of humans for whom mb is not in any way responsible. mb can't get attached (read: doesn't want to get attached) to real-life humans in part because bad things can happen to them, things that maybe mb could have prevented. the same is not true of fictional characters! whatever happens to them onscreen isn't mb's job to fix. whatever happens to them can't be on mb's conscience. media is a safe place for mb because, among other reasons, mb can't affect the narrative and therefore nothing that happens in the show is its fault. at a time when mb was being faced with all sorts of horrible moral dilemmas, media gave it a way to care about the wellbeing of humans without the moral dilemmas.

okay so taking this a step further. i think it's kinda funny that mb thinks art is such a baby for being upset when fictional characters die. art isn't used to being powerless, bud! art isn't used to weighing the benefit of saving somebody against the risk of being sold for parts. "people die and there's nothing i could do about it even if i wanted to" might be a nice bit of freedom for you, but art is stuck on the "people die" part. in art's world, it can make sure people don't die because it has that kind of power over its environment and not all that much to fear from exerting that power.

when art is actually put in a situation in network effect where it doesn't have that power, it doesn't hesitate to take the chance to save its crew at the risk of losing its relationship with mb. i wonder if that's a small part of why mb is so upset - not just that it was used, but that art didn't even do it the courtesy of having a moral crisis over using it. whereas art was probably like, "i lied to you and manipulated events so you wouldn't be confronted with a moral crisis over this, and yet you're still upset with me? what's not clicking??"

[six-of-cringe]

Since it's kinda unclear what Wylan and Jesper even really do (seriously it's underdeveloped what all did Van Eck sell or do as a merchant is Wylan on the council or not is this what the both of them want to do etc etc but that's really another post), I just think that they would start a school. I just think that it would be a place for vulnerable kids to get an education. I just think it would be for people with not a lot of resources and a similarly fraught relationship with education as the school's founders and I just think that they want to keep more people from getting swallowed up by Ketterdam's cruel and money-focused machinations. I just think that it would be a safe place for grisha and strange struggling kids. I Just Think

[howtosingit]

Y’all remember Gabriel Reyes? This is what he looks like now after his control freak son Carlos (majorly stressing about his father’s hypertension issues), took it upon himself to become his dad’s gym/hiking buddy...

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

you know how hard octopi are to keep in captivity and they break out of tanks and stuff really easily. is that…is that something?

the doctor and the master are octopuses #confirmed

first thought: renegades.

second thought: but what about timelords at home?

third thought: are they restrained in some way? did rassilon limit them like the amount of regenerations they get? is the multidimensional eldritch timelord shape a timelord thing or is it a gallifreyan thing? im pretty sure ive read meta about time sensitivity that said that gallifreyans are time sensitive too?

oh right found it i think:

The planet is highly temporally active

The Untempered Schism is ‘an opening in the space/time continuum, “a gap in the fabric of reality from which can be seen the whole of the Vortex”.’Let’s be horribly imprecise and call it a stable Rift. It definitely shares at least some similarities

Since most species on Gallifrey seem to have some kind of temporal senses, we can assume that the area around the Schism is not the only temporally active place on Gallifrey

It may be that something in the atmosphere occasionally reacts to produce artron energy spikes (like lightning but worse), or it may be something else. I’m going to stick with the atmosphere for now because it’s as good a theory as any

Simply put this makes Gallifrey about a zillion times more dangerous than Earth

Here are some fics to show you what I mean

Those tunnels are starting to look pretty habitable now, aren’t they? They have fresh water and the air doesn’t periodically try to kill you

(Have you ever noticed how most Time Lords are really really agoraphobic?)

i got distracted but umm i think the train of thought i was on was like, im imagining the octopus form basically as like, their shape in dimensions we cant perceive? and i feel like time is space theyre both dimensions so, is the time sensitivity and the octopus the same thing? ahsdgjkhfg oh i am tired. i mean. like theyre time sensitive bc they have that shape or they have that shape bc theyre time sensitive or like, those things are the same thing in some way. not the same but like, developed at the same time for the same reason.

but it's a gallifreyan thing then right? all gallifreyans would be like this the same way all gallifreyans are time sensitive because they live on a weird planet?

fourth thought: does it make sense for rassilon to restrict that? to control it in some way to make them all follow the time laws? and if that is the case, if rassilon like put a little cage on timelords like that, do renegades become freeer? and non-timelord gallifreyans, are they freeer? what do they feel like?

i said the other day that i definitely think about their multidimensional form as like, these partially independently acting body parts that are constantly sensing and doing stuff without the main brain's conscious awareness. like theyve got their tentacles in other minds and theyve got their tentacles in time at all times. just manipulating stuff very subtly and naturally.

timelords are sorta somatophobic right? but are shobogans too? i feel like how free any individual would be regarding touch, telepathy, time meddling, and like tentacles, would all be connected?

i mean like, do renegades get super big like the fish that if you put them in a pond instead of a fish tank they get super big?

[octoagentmiles]

Any headcanons for the octoagents?

This is an old ask, my apologies 😅 I wasn't sure how to start, because there's so many. This is gonna be a long post.

Paani:

Definitely not neurotypical but I can't place how; He seems to have low empathy for people, but hyperempathy for objects (his measuring pole and waterboard) and a rigid moral compass (why he stole the Gup-H and their water without thinking, because he thought it was right).

I can see him as both being gay and aro, so I'm gonna say he is both. yeah.

Multilingual, mostly speaks English and Hindi, but can also speak Spanish, and a lot of Indigenous languages.

Chose his own name.

Tracker:

Autistic, was diagnosed young

Barnacles' first actual friend in the cub scouts

Also friends with Bianca: he visits her and the cubs regularly

Fluent in ASL/BSL; goes nonverbal during meltdowns/shutdowns

The Polar Emergency Post Station also has a Text to Speech messaging option for him to use just in case he's ever nonverbal during a crisis

He's younger than Barnacles (but older than Kwazii, so like 28-ish), and really looks up to him in a "big brother" way

Hits his head (lightly) or pulls his fur as a stim

They/he vibes. I feel like he's nonbinary but doesn't realize it

Natquik:

Grandfather figure to Barnacles; his relationship with him mirrors Kwazii and Calico Jack's

He's an immigrant, that's why he has a Russian accent

Maybe like 40-50-ish years old??

Noticed Barnacles was autistic immediately upon meeting him, and chose to become his personal mentor for that reason. He's autistic himself

^ would've done the same with Tracker had they met earlier

Calico Jack:

Shunned by his family/crew, he left on his journey to the Amazon River because he had to leave them

Would've come back for Kwazii eventually, he wrote letters to him everyday. Most of them got lost, but the ones that didn't contained spooky monstery tales

Pete is almost as old as he is (60-ish)

Guess who else is autistic???? that's right, this guy!!! also has dyscalculia

Left handed/ambidextrous because Pete always sits on his right arm, so he taught himself to use the other

Can speak Japanese

Asexual he/they because I say so

Ranger Marsh:

Let Tweak dye his fur last time she visited before the Great Swamp Search (the dye is like, SUPER permanent. Tweak engineered it herself)

Can't swim, that's why he'd never been under the swamp's waters

Taught Tweak how to grow carrots, and a bunch of recipes

Excellent forager

ADHD and dysgraphia (but never diagnosed)

Pearl:

Dyslexia and dyspraxia. She struggles with coordination and spatial awareness, and she's not very good with her hands.

Nerd™ almost moreso than Shellington

Around the same age as Barnacles, so like 31-35.

Always tired for some reason

Abrosexual. That's all.

Min:

Her colour scheme is literally orange, white, and pink, need I say more?

Hypermobile

10-ish years younger than Inkling, so about 50-60.

English is her second language, Mandarin is her first

Paints as a hobby; she likes to paint rocks and leave them in the places she travels, then mark them on her maps

Totally knows kung fu

Ryla:

Gay gay homosexual gay and they/she

The neurotypical friend 😔 /lh

She and Dashi definitely had a Thing™ together at some point

Can NOT cook. Has really bad taste buds in general.

Probably has a bunch of scars from cave diving

They've been stuck in caves for much longer than "a few days" before; this started happening much more often after Dashi left

Koshi:

Autism. no neurotypical child reads 56 novels in that short of a time because they feel like it.

Instead of not noticing/struggling with social ques, she's hyperaware of them at all times. She heard Barnacles say his catchphrase ("Let's do this!") once in her first appearance, then stole it from him immediately in AnB.

Stims very "loudly" (jumping, screaming, arm flapping)

Calls Dashi "Sis" because that's what Donna Doxie calls her sister. The author of that book is siblingless.

Pinto:

ADHD; coincidentally happened to be having a hyperfixation on pirates when he met Kwazii in his first appearance

Kwazii hooked onto that AND recognized his ADHD right away, which is why he bonded with him so fast (he reminded him of a younger version of himself)

Struggles with executive dysfunction sometimes, and jumps from one interest to another constantly

He started school recently, and it's made him more aware about his "inability to focus" and he's been feeling kinda insecure about it

^ he's gonna have fun being a Junior Agent, because at least half the Octonauts have ADHD too, so he'll feel more understood and accepted with them :)

[wolves-in-the-world]

something something season two Moreau putting out feelers to see if Eliot will work for him again (potentially staying right where he is and spying on the team, which has a bigger reputation with each passing month) and Eliot spends his holidays taking side jobs that almost kill him several times over, earning and spending all the favours he can - to pull the right strings to call in the Italian, who's a bit less of a knife at their throat and a bit more here are some things you can use. To break his own rules and run a con on his team. To be more prepared in more ways than one by the time they figure out what he's done.

It's okay that he'll probably lose them, because getting rid of Moreau will be the best thing he's ever done. In the face of Moreau's whispered promises and threats and reminders of all the grubby little things Eliot did for him, in the face of Moreau knowing the names of the people Eliot cares for and won't yet admit he considers family, in the face of the knowledge that trying to keep them oblivious for six months or more while he does what he needs to will not work - and he can't go faster without risking getting too close to Moreau, who has far too much leverage with those names in his mouth, and Eliot won't go back - Eliot will use them, and Eliot will protect them, and Eliot will leave them safer than they were before.

(when it comes to it, when the danger's locked away and the team is justifiably angry, when Eliot's ready to leave - they ask him to stay. and nothing in his life could have prepared him for that.)

[vraska-theunseen]

i love fucked up fourth wall breaking so much. when monika manipulates the story in doki doki literature club. when the other characters suspect something is wrong with kris in deltarune. when they sacrifice the narrator in into the woods. its all so compelling

[shadeswift99]

You know...sometimes I wish Tumblr asks were timestamped like DMs. I really, really want to see the time on some of the asks I get in HCHC, because I know those aren't ideas you unlock at a reasonable daylight hour -

[sneez]

the english civil wars + reductress headlines

[mushroom-winners-proof]

the compulsion to actually make a discord server so everyone can properly chat together about stuff and share stuff is greater-than-usualy on this rainy friday

[discountwives]

spencer the type of guy to go ooh big stretch whenever i make those stretching noises you know the ones

[asfdhgsdkjhgb]

mmmm many thoughts head full

[residentevildash-moved]

if you talk about leon as if he’s wooby uwu boy slutty himbo twink~ and then hc him as transmasc i hope you get smashed with hammers. go to hell