#and the mental image was so funny to me

[scificrows]

The Roombabot Diaries

"Even without full scan function, I still had my dark vision filters and my own mapping data, so with the fixed point of the corridor hatch, I could retrace my steps to the ramp. It just looked awkward and stupid because for the first part I had to navigate like a floor-cleaning bot." - Martha Wells, System Collapse (Video and audio description below the cut)

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An animated video of Murderbot, in a full environmental suit (featuring a little 'Perihelion' logo on its chest and an opaque helmet).

Murderbot is wandering around a dark space, the sound of its footsteps on the stone floor are audible. It walks in a straight line to the right until it hits a pillar with an audible 'thunk' noise and stops. A grumpy smiley face appears next to it.

It recalibrates, making little chirping calibrating sounds, then turns and moves towards the viewer until it seems to hit the camera (again with a 'thunk' noise and a little frowny smiley face next to it) and recalibrates again.

It turns its back to the viewer and starts walking again, this time seemingly hitting the wall in the back. It recalibrates again, then turns to the right and starts walking again. After a few seconds it stops briefly, two exclamation marks appear next to it along with a beeping noise, then it quickly walks out of frame.

#listen i know this is not really what happened in this scene but like. #all i could think about when i was reading this was murderbot moving around like a roomba #figuring out the layout of the space by bumping into things and changing its direction with every collision #and the mental image was so funny to me #i don't actually know how to animate i literally downloaded the software a few weeks ago for another silly mb video (which is unfinished) #this is my second attempt with the software and like. it's FUN!! but i also don't know what i'm doing help #also PLEASE i can't draw please don't @ me about the anatomy #i'm trying to tell myself that the environmental suit is just. very weird hjsdfkdjkhdfjh #anyWAYS #the murderbot diaries #murderbot #system collapse #system collapse spoilers #sc spoilers #video #𓄿 #also. i really wanted to add the humans following mb in a row like little ducklings and almost crashing into it when it crashes into things #but then i would have had to animate 3 additional sets of walk cycles and it would have gotten to complicated and crowded sdfhjdksf #but. yeah. feel free to imagine they are there

[majoliish]

imagine showing any of the celestials that stupid little illusion that makes it look like youre pulling your thumb off and they all collectively lose their SHIT. like freaking out, yelling at solomon for teaching you dangerous magic, asking why youd ever do such a stupid thing, only for you to put it back and theyre just so baffled. once its been explained, diavolo and mammon would be enamoured, begging you to show them the trick behind it.

by extension. telling one of them youve "got their nose" and running off, only for them to chase after you and demand for it back. luke just straight up bursts into tears.

#im sorry this mental image has got me losing my shit #mammon slamming his fists on the door going GIVE IT BACK I NEED THAT #asmo being like NOOO MY NOSE IS SO CUTE YOU CANT HAVE IT YOU MONSTER D: #you do it to beel and belphie just goes like “oh maybe hell finally stop snoring” #barbatos Knows but he plays along with it for the funny #obey me headcanons #obey me x reader #obey me #om!swd #obey me shall we date #om! swd #general howls

[tawaifeddiediaz]

i just hurt my own feelings because the ideas of golfing or hiking or meet-cute sound like things that you find on google on how to meet someone.

and i’m just thinking of eddie at the height of his loneliness, one side of the bed empty for years, reaching for his phone and googling how to meet someone, because he doesn’t want to use a dating app, he doesn’t want to be set up by his aunt, and part of me wonders if he feels like he doesn’t have anywhere else to turn about this.

like yeah, bobby is one of the people that’s guided him from widower status to opening himself up again, but i wonder just how much of it feels applicable to high-school-sweetheart eddie diaz, y’know?

because he met shannon so young, and they raced through all the “milestones” of a relationship - marriage, kids, separations, potential other pregnancy, potential divorce, and then the ultimate end - death at too young. all before they even had their own world-view, let alone responsible for raising a whole kid.

so eddie being clueless on how to connect or reach out just makes me so sad because as funny as that montage was, those are also things that sound exactly like they came from some generic list, that eddie desperately ended up going through with simply because he’s alone.

and more than all that, he’s lonely.

#zee rambles #this was funny but now it’s not because i had to angst it up #just…eddie diaz and being so desperate for a chance to meet someone on his own merit but being so clueless as to HOW #GOD 911 i’m biting your ankles #the mental image of eddie being so sad has me in tears right now #eddie diaz #911 spoilers #911 meta

[sea-buns]

Been wondering how Essek has been doing without teleport in the wake of the Apogee Solstice, but we all know that man is teleporting anyway. Dude is collapsing on arrival from the amount of times he’s had to recast to get where he wanted to go cuz he’d rather take on the damage and extreme risk of death than admit that he’s been bested by Ludinus and his pet rock-god.

The image of him continuously appearing in front of the Nein with blood streaming out of every hole in his face. And Caleb’s just like,

“Uh,,, heyy Schatz maybe we should stop using that spell? Especially when you are traveling alone–”

“Not to worry Caleb, everything is under control. Probability is my specialty, and as such, I can assure you I have already devised a method that greatly reduces the risk of incurring any severe repercussions.“

*he says knowing full well he’s been wasting an obscene amount of Fortune’s Favors just to vaguely get here within an inch of his life*

#if Calebs talk doesnt work plan B is Jester threatening to stop healing him but she is incredibly unconvincing when she says this #last resort is the disappointed-parental look and lecture from Cad and Fjord. the others try to threaten or intimidate but hes grown immune #critical role #cr2 #c2 #the mighty nein #tm9 #m9 #essek thelyss #caleb widogast #shadowgast #apogee solstice #the mental image of his pure denial and spite is so funny to me #pls tm9 reunion live show give us more of the purple bastard i beg

[pinkrose05]

Sungenti & Robinhill would go on the most terse double dates in history. That's it that's the post.

#no but hear me out: these pairs have a sitcom-worthy dynamic it's such a funny mental image actually #boothill is like the perfect candidate for sunday's disapproval in every single way #he's crass he's crude and he's getting on his nerves on purpose which is Not helping his fresh brother-in-law status #and sunday is just the sort of silently bitchy control freak that grinds boots' gears too #they keep exchanging seemingly polite banter but it's really just a combo of forced formality and a curse censor #while argenti (who's Bros For Life with boothill) sees this and cheers for a new friendship #“what beautiful rapport you two are building so fast!!” #bless his soul #nobody tell him what's going on #(robin is tempted to do it just so she can commiserate about the suffering she goes through whenever they meet up. press f for her patience #(at least argenti himself isn't bad company though!) #honkai star rail #hsr #hsr sunday #hsr robin #hsr argenti #hsr boothill #sungenti #sunti #(<- i think that's the established ship name? cmiiw tho) #robinhill #pink's musings

[daydreamerwonderkid]

"But Dick is so nice-"

Homeboy is one dropped bowl of cereal away from a full blown mental breakdown.

#batfam #batfamily #dick grayson #nightwing #dc shit post #batman shit post #idk why the mental image of #any of the batkids snapping #is so funny to me #but it is #dreamer queue

[charlotte-family-apologist]

I headcanon that when Liu Kang doesn’t know how to process something he just smiles but it never reaches his eyes. This unsettles everyone around him, even Kung Lao despite growing up with him.

It has only gotten more unsettling after he became a god. I’m just imagining one of the champions doing something so unbelievably stupid he blanks and stands there dead eyed smiling at them for an uncomfortable amount of time.

#the mental image of this man slow turning with a dead eyed smile is so funny to me #i giggled writing this #liu kang #mortal kombat #mortal kombat 1 #mortal kombat 11 #mk1 #mk11 #this is for both timelines so I guess?? #mortal kombat headcanons

[bdubsgreen]

Unfortunately I couldn’t add the full video to the original post but OP WAS NOT LYING ABOUT IMPULSES PIERCINGS >|^~%|<{%AUD17;$,)6

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@simplydm @milo-hypno

#go to 1:05 to see where he talks about it (skip dialogue option) #if y’all wanna be untagged let me know lol #i did not expect to crack open alight motion at 11pm but here I am at 11:21 posting this #source + all the context you’ll need #the mental image is so funny #impulse walking in a piercing place happy and leaving looking like they exorcised him #impulsev #hermitcraft #500 #edit: #I’m ashamed no one has made ‘scarrred for life’ jokes yet #i love everyone melting down in the notes. never change #faves #1000

[crossdressingdeath]

On the topic of Nico's fantastic willingness to kill without hesitation or mercy if he deems it necessary, sometimes I think about how in the final battle against Nero when Apollo clears a path for Nico to get to the bastard Nico immediately tries to cleave Nero in half. Like, even when characters fight gods in these books they tend to aim for non-fatal wounds, if only because a "fatal" wound likely wouldn't kill a god anyway (see Percy going for Ares's leg rather than his chest or throat, although part of that might be related to height difference), but not Nico! Sometimes I think about that scene and I'm like "I cannot possibly be remembering that right", but Nico very much is aiming to cut Nero in half! And I don't doubt he could've done it given the chance, honestly. Frankly I'm a little surprised at least one of the emperors didn't die to Nico, I fully expected him to kill Caligula to avenge Jason the first time I read the series. But Nico going for a killing blow the second he's given the chance and only failing because Nero manages to yeet him into a wall before it lands is everything to me.

#trials of apollo #nico di angelo #(i am also obsessed with will—who is explicitly not a fighter—being INSTANTLY prepared to fight nero because he hit nico) #(we love protective SOs in this house) #(although it does create the funny mental image of nero going 'HE LITERALLY JUST TRIED TO KILL ME????????' and no one caring)

[stagnation-if]

What if Seth would have been the one in the room when mc woke up suddenly. Just getting jumpscared to shitless before hitting them with a stick or something

Seth: holy FUCK *straight up shoots MC as soon as he sees them moving*

#scenario #the mental image is so funny to me fnsnfms #we're close to 1k followers i can do a drabble if you want to see how he'd really react

[particlegentleman]

im always scared to try out the new updates on my own what if i suck at it and die a million deaths....

#wilson p higgsbury #maxwell dst #dst #⚠ my art #i have nobody to play with (scared 2 ask my friends) so i drew this too imagine 😭😭😭 #also the mental image of wilson and maxwell having a sleepover is too funny to me not to draw #q

[moongothic]

I'm watching Impel Down/Marineford for the first time (I know what happens but seeing the How is. painful. ouchie.) but I'm really loving how competent?? Croc is?? between reminding the escapees that 'we have cannons too' and calling them idiots for not knowing how to handle a tsunami and squaring up with a variety of heavy hitters. IDK it's just nice.

It is delightful! Especially considdering Crocodile had been living a life of luxury for well over a decade in Alabasta (not having to lift a finger to do anything and probably not going out to the sea much if at all) followed by spending an undisclosed amount of time in prison; like the man hasn't been participating in The Yar-Har Pirate Life in a long time, and yet he's such a veteran that all comes back out seemingly naturally. It's really impressive

But it just goes to show how independent Crocodile is (when he wants to), which makes sense. If the man doesn't trust others then it's very likely he's spent time alone even on the seas and could take of himself and whatever funny little boat he might've had. Like yes, having people who can do shit so he doesn't have to is nice and convenient (especially since there are things that would be a pain in the ass to do with just one hand, like the hook only helps so much), but like. Push comes to shove, he can handle it by himself.

Which would make him kind of a cute opposite to Luffy who 100% would not survive without friends around

#Moon posting #Asks #OP Meta #Sir Crocodile #Also this just brings out the wonderful mental images of... Domestic Croc #Crocodile cooking meals for himself... Doing the dishes... Folding laundry... Cleaning his little yacht... #I think I hauve covid #(Croc canonically does not have a little yacht but the mental image is funny to me so it's canon in my heart let me be) #On a less wholesome note what do you think guys. What're the odds Crocodile had to amputate/close his arm wound by himself #Me thinks quite likely

[bookwyrminspiration]

im SO curious what kind of frozen food they’re feeding him. it has to fit through a tiny tube and it slides down around him like a fucking looping waterslide. are they feeding him bite by frozen bite that’s so silly

#kotlc #kotlc spoilers #I’ll take that tube was designed primarily for the cache for story purposes for 400 #fintan watching a single bite of food roll around him several times #just like this is my life right now #this mental image is so funny to me

[kiitkattie]

going through old posts and found that one about 40 yr old aang instead and my comment keeps making me giggle

aang: bumi! meet my kids :)

*camera cuts to zuko and sokka*:

#atla #avatar the last airbender #zuko #sokka #aang #katara is the only one not on a leash #toph would only sometimes be on a leash #cause she keeps escaping #the mental image is just so funny to me #100 year old bumi finally meets his best friend again only to discover that he has adopted children

[pseudophan]

i rarely make gifs bc im lazy n 9 out of 10 times they upload just when ive gotten in bed but i tag phan when i do ✊🏻😔

and that's great that's all i ask love u <3 i'm not saying anyone needs to start spamming its just like if you're posting dnp content anyway you might as well throw a little #phan at the end of those tags. for fun. for whimsy.

#i dont know why this is so funny to me but it is #just like... the mental image of seeing the word phan in the top list in 2024 sends #answered

[fluentisonus]

thinking about that one beowulf translation that translated hwæt as "what ho!"

#it was from the 19th century so he had no way of knowing the bertie woosterification that phrase would have in my mind. #but it always gives me a very funny mental image #thoughts