#this program cannot be this fun

[hollyleaf]

wigglypaints of nine inch nails clair and a gay man

[sincerely-sofie]

*Skitters up to you on all fours and drops this in your lap, then scrambles up the walls and onto the ceiling and immediately falls asleep*

Comic time! Lucky wakes up in the middle of the night and has a chat with Sen in this one.

[ame-to-ame]

still working on tweening and etc but small self-indulgent sneak peek hehe

[ghostwoohoo]

guys milkshape is really scary. is anyone else scared. are there any 4t2 conversion tutorials that work for versions of blender 3.0+

[ebonytails]

sorry my post is just to complain but guys i literally hate adobe after effects. i can not explain to you the mental torture and how LOW it has brought my mental health because I *need* to use it for my post production class because it's "industry standard". ADOBE After Effects has made me write off the entire film and video production industry as a turn off and I never want to do it ever again.

The amount of times this has crashed on me where I lost everything? 5+ hours of work? 8+ hours of work? It's my fault for not saving sometimes but I also have auto-save on. it didn't save anything so im just left with nothing.

You want a trip to burn out town really quick? Use adobe after effects in an academic setting where you have no choice but to use this program.

I have never in my life TOUCHED a program SO TERRIBLE that it made me never want to do anything about that form of art/media EVER AGAIN

[iknowwhereyousleepatnight]

i shouldve been an art history major.........

[thenightisland]

I went back to work Tuesday and it was uncomfortable and exhausting but bearable. Slept five hours that night which was not enough. Similarly survived Wednesday. But here's the kicker: i have been awake since 0500 Wednesday. I'm on hour [checks watch] 38 so far. I have had 5h of sleep in the last 60 hours friends. Needless to say i did not go to work today nor will i be at work tomorrow.

[discordiansamba]

I guess I should discuss the AU that's been rattling around in my brain in a little more detail, rather than just making shitposts about it. So here's the basic gist of it:

We all know there was one surviving universe at the end of Honerva's rampage in VLD's (pretty bad) finale before everything was restored to normal- but could it really survive everything that happened around it unscathed?

The answer is no. Of course it's no.

In a twist of irony, given Honerva's goals, Lotor is deleted from a universe that would have otherwise been very close to the canon universe as we know it- which is... kind of a problem, actually. As in 'the universe could fall apart if this event doesn't happen' problem. But don't worry. The cosmic forces of the universe has a stopgap measure of its own in place to protect itself.

After all, what could go wrong with the universe using one half-Galra to replace another?

Keith is born to Zarkon and Honerva in Lotor's place. He's always felt out of place in a way that simply only being half-Galra can't quite explain. He has a strong sensitivity to quintessence, and knows from a young age that his father and the witch that stands by his side are corrupted.

He knows he's corrupted too. he can hear things that are not him whispering in his head sometimes, telling him things. he ignores them.

(this is sometimes harder than he would like)

(on very rare occasions he hears a different voice from the rabble- one that calmly tells him not to do things. he listens to this one a little more.)

He grows up loathing his father- it's a mutual feeling. He knows that even before he was born, his mother loathed him as well. He grows up with no strong connection to their either side of his heritage.

(perhaps honerva subconsciously realized the child she was carrying was not her own)

He breaks away from the Empire on his own at an early age- he knows in his bones this is wrong, and wants no part in it. He ends up safeguarding a pocket of space from the Empire, but his motives remain erratic and he stays aloof from the other forces against the Empire, so he's not exactly trusted by them.

After all, he's not exactly not still a part of the Empire himself. Zarkon's not going to let his only heir walk away that easily.

He still ends up meeting Acxa, Narti, Ezor and Zethrid.

He's born with the Altean talent of shapeshifting- though he's better at it than most. He wears three faces- the Galran prince, the Altean wanderer, and then a third face, one of a race he has never seen before, yet feels oddly familiar to him.

(Sometimes it feels more natural than the one he was born with.)

He later learns of a planet called Earth, and its people known as humans, who so resemble his third face- and the blue lion with them. He decides to keep an eye on the planet with the excuse of trying to protect the lion... which is surely the only reason he feels such a strong draw to this otherwise backwater planet.

Which is great, because it turns out replacing Lotor with Keith created another problem the universe has to deal with- there isn't a Keith anymore to pilot the red lion.

He just kind of gets swept up in everything when the blue lion awakens, and before he knows it, he's on the Castle of Lions, and Princess Allura of all people is telling him he's a paladin. They all seem to think he's human.

Somehow, he senses it would be a very, very bad idea to tell them all he's actually Zarkon's son.

Great job Keith. You signed up for the universe's most stressful double life. I'm sure this is going to work out real well.

(I am lying.)

[beetlethebug]

can't wait for the poor readers of "The Pilot Program's Guide to Falling in Love with Your Four Best Friends" to bear the brunt of my astrology hyperfixation

[blu-s0da]

the painful irony of people still reblogging the "simpler pixel Markus" and not one of them reblogging that big pixel portrait I did. Like is the piece really that ugly or has no one bothered to click the link even once

[tanumaskoipond]

youtube loves showing me zbrush tutorials which i WOULD be interested in if that program wasn’t one gazillion dollars

[the-pea-and-the-sun]

WHY R PEOPLE SO MEAN

[akkivee]

lol i was rewatching the stage leaders talk and i really do be living my best nmcd life thru them lol like yes samatoki and kuukou do call each other when they want to play video games, yeah sasara and kuukou share one brain cell, yeah ichiro will make a mistake within view of samatoki who will then expose it in front of everyone, yeah even tho they are literally on opposite ends of the room kuukou will start making jabs and jokes at ichiro to make him laugh—

[lesbianlenas]

the way that my friend texted me before like i think there might be a lesbian in my program bc there was this girl w a rainbow pride pin on her bag & then 20 mins later she found her on social media & saw she had a bf and is straight & she sent me this i 😭😭😭

[splodey-goat]

AI art isn't art in the same way some sand on the ground isn't a heap. Art didn't stop being art because you used a computer instead of traditional media, it didn't stop being art when you used tools to color correct or outline things or algorithmically shade it, taking away a grain of sand still left a heap of sand, but there is absolutely a point where there is absolutely too little effort or intentionality or input where it stops being art.

It's still like, a super cool thing to have, for a lot of people, for a lot of reasons, AI art can be part of art, it's a fantastic tool for art I think, but so many defenses of it I've seen wraps around to this idea that like, since you can't define it out of being art that means it inherently is. But we're never gonna know exactly how many grains of sand we need to add before it's a heap, and I don't think I need to know to tell you the few grains under my desk right now isn't one.

[duckapus]

Meet the Supervisors

General Info

I like to think that the reason the USB Admins are recolors with number eyes is for organizational purposes, like a work uniform, so the Supervisors don't have that restriction since there aren't any non-USB Supervisors.

They do at least look like they could reasonably belong in their assigned universe, but that's mainly a side-effect of being designed alongside their MRUs.

They actually communicate with their MRUs like the Mario and Kirby USBs, but aren't parental figures for obvious reasons. They usually just see each other as either friends or coworkers.

Have more-or-less the same abilities as the Admins, with a few unique extras based on their designs.

Trinity

Looks like a fusion between the Oracle versions of Farore, Nayru and Din (because of course she would).

Can actually use the various spells, songs, and other techniques directly associated with those three.

Takes her position as The Oldest very seriously, which leads the others (Spreadsheet especially) to see her as a bit of a stuffy know-it-all.

May or may not have a crush on Tartarus. If anyone asks she'll firmly deny it.

Regards Director K with mild suspicion because she's sure she recognizes him from somewhere and it's setting off alarm bells.

More than a bit high-strung.

GIF

Takes the form of the Default Hamtors, including their small size.

Doesn't have pronouns. GIF is always GIF.

All of GIF must be capitalized, always.

Just as goofy and crazy as the actual Hamtors, but still does GIF's job very well.

If GIF sits on your head that means GIF likes you. And that GIF wants to feel tall right now.

Bites.

Quazar

Apparently the character design agent saw how Frida reacts to anything that might possibly be a faerie and went "you know what would be really fucking funny?" So she looks like a faerie queen, tall and ethereal and just a bit unsettling.

This is effect is absolutely ruined by the thickest Brooklyn accent you've ever heard whenever she opens her mouth.

Sexuality is "look at my color scheme and ask me that again."

Trinity thinks Quazar is the Only Other Sane One. She is wrong.

When she finds out that Programs have night clubs she is going to become the Party Animal and Trinity's rose-tinted view of her is going to be absolutely shattered. Everyone In The Know is already making bets on when it'll happen.

Spreadsheet

Obviously a Fairy. And because of how Fairly Oddparents Fairies work, they can transform into whatever they want, whenever they want, without having any of the usual Code Compression difficulties every other Program has to deal with.

Easily the most chaotic and irisponsible of the First Five, partly on purpose and partly because That's Just How it be in Dimmsdale.

You know how I said that Supervisors don't have a parent/child dynamic with their MRUs? Spreadsheet's the exception, because the MRUs do retain the "SMGs start out as recolors" rule so those two are Literally Children and fairies looking after kids is this universe's Whole Deal. Taking care of 6 and 7 is the One Thing that they actually take seriously outside of dire emergencies.

Has made it their life's mission to get Trinity to actually relax and have fun. Mostly by messing with her via harmless pranks and being generally annoying.

Connectivity

Has a similar Cute Little Mascot design to Harmony, Zap, and any other Spirits that may get introduced.

Is the actual Sane One of the first batch of four, but usually sides with Spreadsheet on the grounds of feeling that Trinity's workaholic mindset isn't healthy.

Came with one of the Spirit Jewels that the actual Spirits bestow upon their Champions, but keeps it hidden because she isn't sure how anyone would react to her being able to bestow a piece of her power to someone. Has quite a bit of anxiety about this that she isn't willing to address.

When she and Alyssa interact it sometimes results in a Mom Friend Feedback Loop because they can each Tell that the other needs some love and nurturing and it sets off their maternal tendencies but they're not ready or willing to confront their own struggles (especially the Trust Issues) enough to be receptive to that.

When that doesn't happen they'll swap gossip about their respective coworkers, because every office is gonna have some piping hot Tea to spill and even if the IRL and Digital agents are considered equals they're obviously still physically separate so the gossip's gotta get from one side of the screen to the other somehow.