https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpR64j8qskM

these guys broke up and reformed as The Otolith, and their new album is pretty good (lowkey one song on there is a touchpoint for the new HT chapter). but i’ve been spinning Folium Limina so much i’ve let myself forget how unhinged SubRosa could get

this one is for the mentally unwell girlies.

if the back to back one‍-​two punch of “Despair is a Siren” and “Black Majesty” doesn’t fuck you up, what are doing on my blog

video game bosses that are just two guys are the backbone of our economy

hate being a creature of flesh except whenever people go on about how horrifying it is that actually makes me like it more. the freaky bits are the upside i think

• not sure what it is i actually dislike come to think of it

local fool had the hubris of opening up an art program

• these pixels beating her ass man :c

you know, when people imagine “what if a bunch of bugs acted like a person”, they usually go for some worm that walks type thing. a swarm that that clusters into a humanoid shape, perhaps under a cloak so they could pass as just some dude at a distance

but honestly i think i think something a lot more reasonable in practice would be something more like a mobile hive

let me explain:

the core mechanism would be pretty much like a bike, a pedal gear turning a sprocket to generate force that’s then used to drive some wheels. but instead of like, pedals, you’d have a hundreds of workers tugging on the ropes directly.

i imagine the way it’d work is you’ve have a bunch of tiny threads tied to the main chain/rope. there’s a fixed shaft that the workers can climb up, dragging their thread with them, tugging on the main chain as they climb upward, then riding it back to the bottom before the next cycle starts.

there’s gears in the main platform that convert their work into energy for the treads. the treads are usually these spike wheels which can roll over slightly uneven ground, but there’d be a carriage under the platform with various supplies, including replacement wheels that they can swap out to optimize for different terrain conditions.

(the reason there’s four wheels is that one can be lifted for that swapping without compromising tripod stability)

in more advanced bugbikes there might even be flat treads, with complicated gears and jointed legs that let the hive straight up walk. (or even climb!) but rolling around is simpler and more efficient.

there’s probably be more outlets for the mechanical energy of the pedals than just the legs. in the pic i drew a lil bucket that can raise and lower which would be a nice way to get water and other resources to the hive efficiently

but it would make sense for there to be a whole suite of mechanisms for manipulating the world. sticks for poking things (perhaps violently), grasper than can pick things up and move them around, and so on. i cant imagine quite what it’d look like atm. i feel like bugs would trick out their hives with all sorts of nifty automations

(i also gave them a bunch of telescopes, which seems like a logical way to compensate for the really shitty acuity of compond eyes.)

but yeah. imagine having a buddy who is just a bunch of bugs tinkering with gears and pulleys and dohickeys rolling around in their pedal‍-​operating bike tank. i think that’d be pretty cool

Tessa pointedly kept her gaze level so she wouldn’t ogle that gaping impalement wound

Having a normal one in today’s Tessaract chapter

the sixth time i disconnected and reconnected to wifi tumblr started working again

i am praying we never figure out what to call juzi. the current state of affairs where literally everyone comes up with their own name is the funniest outcome by far. let it never end

yall really took this to heart. just so we’re keeping score, i’ve seen

• brandedgun
• spaceink
• oilbites
• company‍-​issued punk
• businesscrows
• passion fruit soda
• brandedbats
• dangerbats
• purpleink
• CorporateCrow
• BusinessBites

honorary mention to the joke suggestions

• PTO
• jacuzzi
• sour grape
• unethical consumption
• HR Nightmare
• CorporateMechanic
• the insidious tendency of capitalism to subsume and incorporate its own critique, commodifying contradiction

don’t stop! make that line go up!

actually critical support to jangst bc i’m gambling on uzi catching the rebound

• dw about why we were rewatching ep5
• >:3

Anonymous asked:

You throw crumbs of Dollzi at the us but never have you satisfied the beast.

nah, Like Shadows Chasing the Balance is more than crumbs

plus Corrupt Combustion (and its precursor, Circuits Turn to Stone) are foundationally dollzi in both premise and conclusion. but that’s a bit more trust me bro‍ ‍‍—‍ though i think even if people could see where i was going with with that, it’d just hurt dollzi fans more

or maybe yall are freaks like juzi nation

• wont lie i’ve been rotating some dollzi smut
• since it’d take less setup to explore those ideas than doing it with juzi
• nothing to show for it though

shift+enter lets you insert line breaks mid paragraph

this is dangerous knowledge to have because ctrl+enter will send the post early without any dialogue for confirmation

• i have accidentally send a draft post prematurely twice now
• sorry to watching their dashboard like a hawk lol

genuinely what is it about V that gets the waterworks on a hair trigger

i swear i dont even like the bitch

• reading the V chapters of Retrospect when they’re finished is probably gonna destroy me

the day i go from toxic yuri sowing to toxic yuri reaping is gonna change me

• and you
• if you can read this you are at risk

in my ongoing quest to make give every species of bug its own weird little (eu)social system, today i realized traditional euvespid culture are simultaneously strictly monogamous and aroallo‍-​normative

one of my specific yet most frequent annoyance with mid video essays is when they taking the idea of decreasing attention spans, or that screens or social media is rotting our ability to focus, entirely for granted.

like we’re not even going to take a moment to substantiate any of this? no skepticism at all for one of the most popular narratives about technology?

• gellman amnesia moment i guess
• solid demonstrate of what rigor the field (doesn’t) have

i’m gonna be real, four spaces = code block is the dumbest part of markdown. pretty great except for that one thing. if i want a code block i’ll fence it off with the gravitas it deserves, none of this under the radar character counting shit

in my darkest moments this is the panel that keeps me going

• when nobody else got me cog mentality got me

fantasy knight who says “this trifling manure beeth middling orthodox” to mean “this shit is straight mid”

i can count to fifteen

HER

• i need her

im not sure why i hit post today honestly

https://archiveofourown.org/chapters/148139710

looking into some indieweb stuff and seeing a sphere that’s bunch of dudes operating under their real names. idk there is something indescribably off‍-​vibe about this. not my scene

clocking out a bit early after knocking out an oddly intense bit of the new HT chapter that had been looming in my mind for a week. started to get a bit proud of what i’m cooking up

for the rest of you, be advised: something malicious is brewing

fuck it im gonna populate the #dinner for two tag

• juziv
• when the toxic yuri goes multidimensional
• lowkey the only context in which i countenance vuzi

entitiy‍-​4 asked:

Honestly dinner for two is the funniest ship name. I don’t think Uzi could get any more flustered unless Doll was getting in on the action too, but I think that would probably end with her dying due to lack of oil.

the word “agnize” has the most 9/10 orthogaphy and definition hamstrung by the most ungodly 4/10 pronunciation there is. downright unusable in conventional meta.

who designed this? what’s their address? i just wanna send a letter

the nature of HT is that every 100k words J and Uzi will get thirty minutes alone, take it or leave it

morale is low and the diet of lentils and oatmeal aint cuttin it so i’m breaking out the 1 remaining hashbrown i was saving for a special occasion. i’m counting on you dude

they should invent a 16k word chapter that has natural stopping points

Hostile Takeover, chapter 16

https://archiveofourown.org/works/51409288/chapters/148563991

should probably have split this.

idk what to say, i still think this arc is kinda ass

watching people’s reactions to ep8 being the finale is wild as someone who

1. joined the fandom right before e6 dropped,
2. is too depressed to have a sense of hope or future,
3. or to invest in anything beyond arms length,
4. primarily engages in fanfic, and
5. writes so much fanfic that every episode is colored by a sense of deadline‍-​dread of how it’s going to reshape the fanfic landscape when i still have things to say in the current context

so it’s like.

1. i never engaged with murder drones as something with installments, a moving target as opposed to a single static text;
2. i’m incapable of really looking forward to anything (and consequently feel no disappointment when possibilities are denied);
3. murder drones never gave me more than entertainment and a sense of community (which no announcement could take away);
4. the show itself was already not the primarily thing keeping it relevant in my mind, anyway;
5. and the unfortunate fact is repeatedly pushing myself to get chapters out ahead of episodes, persistently worried about episodes invalidating or obviating old ideas‍ ‍‍—‍ despite ep7 (for me) demonstrating i personally had little to worry about‍ ‍‍—‍ means i’ve let it get to a point where even my feelings about the very prospect of more murder drones have become irrationally mixed

to me, all things have already ended, and any updates are no more than a fleeting interruption of that fact. i’m satisfied with what exists or not at all.

getting therapy not for any life improvement reasons but solely so that i can process my weird hangups about jessa and vuzi and nuzi and enjoy more gay robot art.

Hostile Takeover kinda fell off didnt it

to truly master juzi i think i need to become less normal about uzi

contemplating touching up Hostile Takeover chapters 3‍-​6 (3 in particular is by far the worst chapter atm). no full rewrites, but i might be able to put things on firmer foundations. in particular, i have an idea for significantly recontextualizing J & Uzi’s debugging thing.

not finished figuring it all out yet (and who knows how the new episode is gonna derail me >.>)

but here’s a treat: a whole new mini‍-​scene in between J flying back to the spire and waking up from Uzi’s headshot :3

3: [Error 36:48.58/Connection Lost]

to analyze murder drones episode 8 by the most objective standards

1. uzi didn’t even talk to her girlfriend j :/
2. the keybug lived

impossible to say if it’s good or not

my kneejerk reaction to the finale climax was ‘that looks cool, but it’s kind of underwhelming and underbaked. what does any of this mean in the end?’

but i decided to actually give it a moment of thought and no, the show actually does hangs together thematically and this is what it’s been building to all along

i did ramble on discord about this a bit. i take it anyone here is interested? be warned though, it’s not a very clever insight, just a basic bitch analysis

Thoughts on the Murder Drones Finale

palace‍-​of‍-​glass’s reply

• you really tightened this analysis
• great insight & a worthwhile addition
• thank u for reading and elaborating

btw my thematic analysis of murdrones has convinced me that juzicyn is the way. the potential is THERE. im not crazy i saw a vision

Anonymous asked:

So memes aside, whats you actual opinión on the MD finale?

Ps: im gonna asume that the whole “J was working with Cyn” twist is not gonna apear on hostile takeover

i guess i already explained a bit of this in my post analyzing the themes of the series, but after rewatching the episode i think my opinion has soared a bit higher.

i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again: i came expecting to have a good time, and i did. i don’t tee myself up for disappointment by expecting more than that

i could say what we’ve seen self‍-​evidently seen‍ ‍‍—‍ the visuals were gorgeous, the music slapped, the imagery was otherworldly, the poses and gags were so much fun, the sheer creative vision on display was, in a word, peak.

but i’d guess this question is really about the writing

if i read this conclusion in a fic, i might not find it that fulfilling. i certainly wouldn’t publish it myself without another drafting pass or two

but in a way, i find the lack of answers about the solver, cyn, or tessa to be a relief. it leaves so much room open for fanfic and closes off almost none of it. and i’ve spent far more time reading fanfic than watching the show, so the utilitarian calculus is clear

and when the thing practically ends on a highlight reel of fanfic prompts? yeah no, my looming uncertain fear going into this was how it’d impact the writing scene and i think the reasonable conclusion is that we have been fed

(it’s always the flawed shows that spawn the most productive fandoms, anyway)

but it’s clear that what all this is circling around is me outright saying i found the writing to not be up to par. but i dont want to say that, not least of all because i think the episode rocked, but because whatever sins i might tally on its back‍ ‍‍—‍ for all that we could do with more setup, more context, more closure…

…i dont think i can blame any of that on the episode itself, anymore than i might fault a glass of water in the desert for not being a gallon jug. maybe it’d be nice if murder drones had more conventional writing merits, but the thing you’re imagining isn’t “what if he wrote it better 5head”, it’s “what if we lived in a world where murder drones isn’t an indie animation with a limited budget”

…ok no, the thing i’m imagining is what if J and Uzi said anything to each other. ANYTHING

as for hostile takeover… :3

ok silliness aside, i’ve had detailed plans for a long time. my outlines are flexible but i’ve known how it ends for months‍ ‍‍—‍ so trust me, it hasn’t resembled canon in quite a while. we’re far from the beaten track

say what you will about how murder drones treated j in the finale, but i realized

if this how much the show cares, then why should i constrain myself to rigidly respecting her characterization every time i write her

maybe i can just do whatever i want

i could write soft j

Anonymous asked:

Considering that both Doll and Cyn seems to live on inside Uzi, how would that affect the toxic yuri levels?

being real, between the similarity between the three of them and the fact that uzi has so much love and support in her life, i think the toxins will be seriously denatured.

uzi’s getting what either of them needed emotionally, where the two of them were too caught up in their violent antisocial coping to try. this probably sounds funny coming from someone whose written so much angst and despair but i genuinely dont see things going sour from here.

if doll and cyn are entangled enough with uzi to share her experiences‍ ‍‍—‍ or better yet, uzi comes out to her friends who will absolutely accept her‍ ‍‍—‍ then it’s smooth sailing. i guess the only angle for angst is if you go really hard on uzi hiding what’s she become (but that borders on an idiot plot tbh), doll & cyn either desperately wanting to interact with others or hide away (or better yet, they each want different things).

also my honest hot take is i’ve never really been sold on uzi & doll having a deep relationship or any chemistry, and i think canon cyn reads pretty aro

no yuri imo but i think the potential for even more fucked up and fun qpr girls goes hard

Anonymous asked:

hi what is ur insight on j’s relationship with the solver

i guess i can say i don’t quite agree with all the people emphatically saying this is a terrible botching of J’s character or doesnt make sense or anything.

the idea that J cared deeply about Tessa is just a headcanon. a headcanon that adds depth, life, and relatability to her, yes, but fanfics (mine included) place such profound yet unjustified importance on her. don’t let it blind you to canon, where there’s no evidence they had anything more profound than an affable business relationship

go back and watch the scenes of Tessa and J, and it’s not even hard to read it counter to convention‍ ‍‍—‍ really, the sweet lilt in J’s tone at the beginning of e2 makes more sense as a purely ingratiating affection anyway, a friendly service mask. and notice how it immediately turns to tired disdain for Tessa bringing in another drone. that sense of tiredness carries through to her appearance in e5‍ ‍‍—‍ notice the narrowed eyes, the exasperated looks. J does emote concerns for Tessa, and of course she defends her from V

but the bottom line: if you walk in with the assumption that Tessa is just her boss, what do you have any trouble explaining? Tessa was a good boss, certainly better than her superiors or her replacement, but what i’m driving at here is that it’s entirely consistent if J’s positive disposition toward Tessa is a consequence of her loyalty to whoever’s employing her, not the other way around.

am i saying that this interpretation makes for a better character, or that i’ve changed my mind? no, i’m just raising the possibility. if we’re talking about the show, we’ve got to meet it on its own terms.

i think it’s possible and indeed likely that between the Gala and arriving on Copper‍-​9 the first (or second) time, J did mourn Tessa, agonized about what Cyn was demanding of her, spent every cycle of her processor turning over whether there was anything else she could do. but J’s never been someone who had much trouble falling in line‍ ‍‍—‍ even when it runs counter to Tessa’s interests.

(“Sorry, boss, corporate’s spoken.”‍ ‍‍—‍ i think if you wanted to bash J, you could go far in framing her as complicit in Tessa’s abuse. i imagine most people don’t stop to think about this moment, but taken seriously, analyzed uncharitably, and it says some dire things about J’s character)

at the end of the day, when it comes to J’s “decision” to side with the solver, i think all that needs to be said is what else could she have done.

Tessa is dead. what would sentimental loyalty to her corpse have gained? what could her defiance against the solver have ever accomplished? it had the admin access to move her like a puppet!

if you read them as caring about each other, i can’t imagine Tessa would have wanted her to throw it all anyway to rage against the dying light when she’s already beyond the event horizon of a goddamn black hole

and then, after coming to grips with what she has to do, after spending who knows how long doing Cyn’s dirty work across earth and the exoplanets, is she supposed to take one look at Uzi’s childish opposition and think her old team stands any chance against a world‍-​devouring robo‍-​demon?

my conclusion is that J played the hand that she was dealt, but the cards were marked.

i love my ideas my brain da real mvp

less is more, more is also more, but mid is less. few understand all of this.

every time i open my dashboard i embark on a grand trek to the last time i reblogged something. wish me luck

HT AU where Cyn is completely chill with Uzi coming back to life, no strings attached, so every week or so she shows back up in the manor‍-​dream‍-​sim‍-​thing with J’s latest enthusiasm fresh on her character model. V doesn’t even attack her anymore, just gives a feral scoff and hands over the reins to Cyn’s possession.

"Sigh. Dear J got carried away again?"

“No! …Yeah. Shut up. Just rez me already!”

i don’t ship cyn/uzi

oh, but i do see the vision. the biting, the tongues, the clawing ‍-​ so much tearing, twisting insides out. all the snark and the mutual, disaffected self‍-​awareness even as they keep going anyway. violent intimacy with a dash of obsession, or just fascination

but romance? no, what cyn wants from a relationship is far weirder. and honestly, i think she’d find the label quite boring ‍-​ annoying, even

• is this qpr

the closer i come to going wild with juzi the more the gods curse me with burnout and immobilizing depression. we truly live in a society

• “stop pushing yourself harder than you can sustain”
• who said that. show yourself